Originally posted by gpaual .......
1974....a friend gave me a k1000
Wow, I wasn't even born then
My first camera was an Agfa ISO-Rapid (1 I think) that I got from my uncle (who was very much into photography back then but he stopped and sold everything and switched to computers. That was in the 80's I guess).
The ISO-Rapid was a nice camera IF you rememberd that the viewfinder was not inline with the lens so the subject in the middle of the viewfinder would actually be on the left side of the picture (so anything on the left would fall off).
I still have that one but I guess it's hard to find lightbulbs for the flash (I know it was extremely hard to find bulbs and batteries when I got the camera and that's 20 years ago orso).
My next camera was a very cheap one and I don't think it was any brand.
My first digital camera was the FujiFilm FinePix A204 followed by the Canon PowerShot A510 and now replaced by the K100D Super.
I also made some B&W pictures a few years ago with my fathers camera (was an adventure since I needed a lux-meter (light meter) to set the correct shutter time and Aperture for the film but I didn't have such a meter so I had to borrow one from my uncle who fortunatly kept one around when he sold everything). My fathers camera was a Yashica "J" (claimed to be sold to people who had a name starting with the letter J and however my father's name is Jean he claim to have gotton it from his brother when he bought a better one. and his name is Pierre so that story is a myth
).
Anyways, I would love to scan the B&W images and post them here for review but unfortunatly my brother gave the pictures AND the negatives to someone else a few years ago and I never saw them again
So as you can see I have no real experience with a "real" camera (SLR or dSLR) so it's gonna be a challenge for me to figure everything out and I'm planning on at least learning howto do stuff manually (focus and stuff like that).
which leaves me with another question, do you set all these things on the lens like with older camera's (except for ISO since that was the film type and you couldn't change that) Aperture and shutter time or do you do this in the camera these days (electronically instead of manually like before).
Pentax rocks !.....they have never been a lesser choice, only an undiscovered one.......
........" the best tool to have ?.......the one you need at the time ![/QUOTE]