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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-16-2013, 01:24 AM
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Hi--My Name is Mike Banks. I have been a snapper for about s8ixty years and a Pentax user for about forty of those years--but I think the camera was called a Tower in those early days. I still have a Pentax with the clip on Seiko meter--and a few Spotmatics, a Pentax ProgramA and Z70. I think I may have others too--but they would be a Spotmatic F--and I have a series of lenses for the Spotmatics pretty well in mint condition all screw mounts--and a couple of them are the SMC lenses. I bought them as a back-up system for my Nikon F which I still own--with the Photomic finder. These were of legendary reliability--mainly because I never used a motor drive on the camera. I have lenses for this one too--but I fear the days of film are about over for the miniature 35mm camera. I still like to use them--I think limiting one to thirty-six exposures makes one a better snapper.
I am having some dramas with the more electronic cameras. Not so reliable as the old ones--
Hope you are all having as much fun with film as I still am--whenever I can get out and do some snapping. I still like monochrome--but my Agfapan 25 and Kodachromes are no more. Ilford is still there--for now. No Promicrol any more--(collapses sobbing)
Best wishes--Mike Banks
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