[dneira29]

How old were you when you first started using Pentax? Did you have any other systems? How has your gear changed through the years? Mine looks like this:

Age 21
- Pentax k5
- pair of kit lenses 18-55 & 55-200 ( I think haha)

Age 24
- Pentax K3
- SMC 50 f1.8
- HD DA 20-40 ltd wr
- Rokinon 16mm f2

Age 29 (current load out)
- Pentax k1
- DFA* 50 mm f1.4
- HD DA 55-300 wr
- dji mini 2
- GoPro hero 5

How time has passed and the kit has changed

[Kerrowdown]

AGE and GEAR!!!

I've got too much of both...

[boriscleto]

Age 14: K1000, A 50/2 and a couple of house brand lenses (28/2.8 k 80-200).

Age 36: Kx, 18-55 & 55-300. Beginning of LBA.

Age 38: K-5, more lenses than I could ever use.

Age 42: K-3, Sigma 150-500 on the camera most of the time. Even more lenses.

Age 48: K-3 III, 150-450 and a ludicrous number of other lenses.

[pres589]

I was 28 when I bought my first Pentax camera (and it was my first real camera as well), a K100D. I'm 43 now and I've been shooting with the same K-5 II for the last seven years. I'm thinking of moving to the K-3 III sometime in 2022.

I have more glass than I care to mention. I've also stepped into film photography so I've effectively got two camera systems with a common mount (the Super Program I bought a while ago may become a bit of a bridge body between my manual film k system and my crop stuff).

[twilhelm]

I started with Pentax when the K10D came out as I needed one system for digital and film (Plus the K10D was/is an amazing camera). I was shooting events in both formats.

I won’t begin to try to count what I have had or have today…

[timb64]

Late 30s Pentax Optio(?)

Mid 40s to present day late 50s

Kr kit lenses and Tamron 18-300

K5ii,kit lenses and 18-135 55-300 non-PLM

Present KP 16-85 and 55-300 PLM

[5ks]

I've got too much of both...

Sure, at least it begins to feel too much...

Not counting the lenses, only SLR/DLSR bodies here:
At 18: ME Super
At 32: LX (in addition to the previous)
(kind of pause before going to digital)
At 46: K200D
At 49: K-7
At 50: K-5
At 52: another K-5

At 56: K-3

At 58: K-1
and still got and use the last three (almost planning for K-3iii...)


Definitely too much of both

[Kerrowdown]

Definitely too much of both

Strangely it's only the age bit... that causes me any concern.

[Wheatridger]

Age 62- bought my first Pentax camera, a K-7.
Age 68, at present- K-1 ll, K-3 and lots of lenses

[stevebrot]

Actually, with the exception of a Pentax-M 50/1.7 that came with a Ricoh XR7 when I was 27. My first Pentax product was when I purchased a K10D at age 52 spring of 2007.


Steve

[RobA_Oz]

I think I was 24 when I bought my first Pentax (an S3 with 50mm F1.8 Takumar, secondhand). That was supplemented a year or so later when I inherited my father’s SV with prism-mounted light-meter.

After that, followed an ES, and then an ESII (which I still have). I don’t recall the years. I briefly had a Miranda, which was a nicely-made camera with a changeable prism.

A K2DMD (which I also still have) arrived when I was 33, and was my main camera until I bought my *istD, but I forget which year that was. I also used a Minox 35AL for ultra-light travel, and a Leica IIIf just because I could.

My birthday present to myself this year was the K-3iii, but in between were the K-5, K-3 and K-1.

[luftfluss]

I'm older than I was when I first started and some of my gear also; yes, I've used and will use other systems, and my gear once was and currently is in a state of flux and likely will be in the future, also.

[dneira29]

I've got too much of both...

Beautiful! Haha

[Kerrowdown]

Beautiful! Haha

It was just the first thing that shot into my mind...

[Lev]

I was learning my native language while some folks here were already shooting their Pentaxes