My Dad always seemed to have a camera and we took lots of long summer vacations to exotic places like Canada.
He mostly shot on a Brownie Hawkeye and he got me one just like his when I was around 8 (1968). I remember always looking at the photos he took when he was in the Navy on a Mediterranean cruise before I was born. In Junior High I took Photography as an elective and my Dad gave me some model of Kodak Bantam with 828 film, lens on a pop-out bellows, that he had used overseas. That was a big step up from a Brownie, with full manual control of aperture and shutter speed. Around 1983 I took a winter vacation and borrowed a friend's K1000. It was the first time I'd used an SLR, and I was amazed with the results (had been using 110 mostly). Then before my son was born I walked into a Waxman's camera store in downtown Denver in 1990 and a salesman recognized me from our senior year in high school. I was looking to purchase a 35mm SLR. He showed me a used MX and 50mm lens for $50. At the same time he offered to sell me 28, 135, and 200mm Pentax lenses with cases for another $75. So I walked out with an MX and four lenses for $125. I always liked photography, but it was that purchase of the MX and lenses that really got me serious about it. Tom On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Derby Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Friend-shooter of mind asked me today, when did it click for you? When did > you know photography was the game to be in? Oddly, unlike a lot of my past > history, I could pinpoint exactly the moment > > I was sent out by my then-employer to do some work in Simi Valley, CA. > Bored, I picked up a Ricoh KR-10M with a modest Rikonen zoom (both long > since stolen). Landing on the weekend, I went for a drive down PCH to adjust > my body clock, with a plan to visit the Getty museum. After being rejected > because I hadn't booked, and after finding a not quite legal park on the > beach, I saw a pretty lady with a pet pig. Not understanding the honourable > history of street photography, I begged her to let me take a photo, which > she did, to my gratitude. It could have gone the other way, but that shot > made me think, there was something to this hobby. Fine-boned ladies will let > you take their picture with their pig, what's not to enjoy? > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/10/10_01/10_01_click/index.htm > > So.....when did it first click for you? > > D > > > -- > > [email protected] > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
