Originally posted by barefootdesigns Currently I am enamored of the M42 Kuribayashi Petri lenses;
Given that the Pentax is so dissed these days, it stimulates me to nostalgia that creeps into fantasizing. I do appreciate that you are "herding cats" at times.
Carla...."herding cats"? That sounds like something Snape would describe at Hogwarts.
I assume youʻre talking about teaching a class full of teenagers? I have been fortunate to teach all ages from high school, undergrad, graduate, and other teachers, and the majority of my students, taking art, photography, or video as an elective were as engaged as long as I made it engaging. When I was a student (high school, undergrad, then grad) I loathed teachers and profs that obviously were sleep walking through life. Dead wood. I recently got an email from a student I taught 10 years ago, and sheʻs now getting her doctorate and told me how much she hated high school but my photo class was the one class that gave her hope. Messages like that fuel me to make a difference with the silent cats in the class.
Petri. The first SLR that I remember was my cousinʻs fianceʻs Petri as a kid. I remember seeing the shutter speed dial and thinking how cool that was. Then you put your eye up to the viewfinder and you get that distinct mixed smell of metal, leather, and probably adhesive. Everyone knows the "new car smell", but photographers smashing your nose up to the back of a camera also knows that "new camera smell". Wow. Geek out.
I think part of our earliest memories are linked and reinforced by photos taken of us and the cameras used to create those images.