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My first snaps were with an old Box Brownie that my parents had, next came an Instamatic 233 126 cartridge camera. Year 9 at the school I went to had photography, still, Super 8, and Video (B&W reel to reel) as that years art course. The still photography used Minolta SRT101's, was solely focused on B&W film and developing. Not much later one of my Aunts gave me an old Praktika SLR, totally manual, right down to a hand held light meter. I used this camera for about 6 years, replacing it with a Yashica FX-3. The FX-3 was replaced after being stolen by an FX-D, then a Minolta X-300.When the X-300 broke down several years later, I had a young family. My wife is from Pennsylvania, and the cost of getting multiple prints together for both sets of Grandparents, plus postage was huge. This prompted the move to a digital point & shoot 2.1Mp Olympus, replaced by a Panasonic 5Mp, then 16Mp.Finally in December 2016 I returned to ILC's with an A6000, which I have since passed on to my youngest daughter. Leading to my current camera's, an A6600 and an A7CR. Much as I enjoy the bell's and whistles of the new camera's I still enjoy playing around occasionally with old adapted manual glass. Most times when I go out by myself with the camera, I have at least a vague plan of the type of shots I want. If they don't really work out that's okay, I've learned something for the future, plus, if I've managed to get out into the country, the photo's are a bonus and a memory.
My first snaps were with an old Box Brownie that my parents had, next came an Instamatic 233 126 cartridge camera. Year 9 at the school I went to had photography, still, Super 8, and Video (B&W reel to reel) as that years art course. The still photography used Minolta SRT101's, was solely focused on B&W film and developing. Not much later one of my Aunts gave me an old Praktika SLR, totally manual, right down to a hand held light meter. I used this camera for about 6 years, replacing it with a Yashica FX-3. The FX-3 was replaced after being stolen by an FX-D, then a Minolta X-300.
When the X-300 broke down several years later, I had a young family. My wife is from Pennsylvania, and the cost of getting multiple prints together for both sets of Grandparents, plus postage was huge. This prompted the move to a digital point & shoot 2.1Mp Olympus, replaced by a Panasonic 5Mp, then 16Mp.
Finally in December 2016 I returned to ILC's with an A6000, which I have since passed on to my youngest daughter. Leading to my current camera's, an A6600 and an A7CR. Much as I enjoy the bell's and whistles of the new camera's I still enjoy playing around occasionally with old adapted manual glass. Most times when I go out by myself with the camera, I have at least a vague plan of the type of shots I want. If they don't really work out that's okay, I've learned something for the future, plus, if I've managed to get out into the country, the photo's are a bonus and a memory.
