Family gear
1976 Pentax Spotmatic F and SMC Takumar 50/f1.4 - this is an odd example with a split-prism focussing screen (never officially a Spotmatic option). Purchased new by my parents in Panama. At the time they were sailing from Melbourne to Southhampton on the S.S. Australis. This is the camera that shot most of my childhood, and Mum continued using it until switching to digital in the early-Naughties.
1977 Minolta SRT-101b and Rokkor PF 50/f1.7 - I don't have a lot of info on this body. Purchased new by my Pop and used enthusiastically until his death in the mid-80's, at which point it went into storage until being passed to me.
1975 Nikonos III and UW.Nikkor 28/f3.5 - this one has some stories to tell... Purchased new by my dad during his first job as a clearance and construction diver on the wreckage of the Tasman Bridge (which partially collapsed in early '76 after the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra collided with a pylon). He was a working class 19 year old at the time so I have no idea how he could afford it... He then took it with him to diver training school at Fort Bovisand in the UK, before using it to document a commercial diving career that went to the North Sea, Libya, India, Australia, China and others...