Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Camera

I just recently got a digital camera. I really like it. My first camera was a Pentax ME, which I bought on August 15, 1977. Here are some other cameras that I admired back in those days:
  • Mamiya / Sekor 500 DTL
  • Fujica G690
  • Miranda Sensorex
  • Yashica FR
  • Contax RTS
  • Mamiya RB67 Pro S
  • Rolleiflex SLX

And I liked Vivitar lenses. I had a Vivitar 35-105 zoom (which I got on May 18, 1978), which I lost years later on a train in Italy. Also, did you know that it was in 1977 that Nikon introduced AI? That’s automatic indexing, not artificial intelligence. Prior to that, one had to set one’s Nikkor lenses to F5.6 before changing lenses.