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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
11-16-2014, 01:50 AM
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As a child, I like many others asked for and recieved a camera for a birthday, it was a Agfa point and shoot camera that took 126 film. Its one redeeming feature was that it gave me the bug for photography. The bug made me save my pocket money and money from odd jobs until I could afford a "real" camera. It took me nine months of saving and an unbelievably cheap sale price of a used Minolta SRT Super and three lens kit from one of my older brother's friends. I grew up with that camera and it travelled the world with me, I still own it and it still works.
My Minolta kit was added to over the years with 9 more bodies and 45 lenses (Damn LBA) as well as other cameras of different brands and formats including Pentax until I came kicking and screaming into the digital age. Strangely none were Canikons!
When it came to a digital SLR I couldn't get one of my beloved Minoltas they had been engulfed by the Sony empire and many of their lenses had been orphaned by mount changes so I had to start anew. I had experience with Pentax cameras so I started with some research into a K7 which became my first Pentax DSLR. I now have a K5, K5IIs and a K3 as well as many Pentax film cameras and my K mount lenses are now numbering as many as my Minolta ones(Damn LBA). I guess I'm now a Pentaxian.
Glenn
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