You sent me down memory lane. I started with a Brownie when I was in single digits, but I think I’m with you that the passion didn’t start until the first Pentax SLR back in the early 80s. Can’t do a pic of it since I gave it to one of the kids.
A Brownie was my first camera. I think I got it when I was in 7th or 8th grade. I just know it went everywhere with me. But my Nikkormat was my first SLR. I still have it – more for nostalgia now than anything. It still works though.
I loved working with film. I even did my own darkroom work with black and white. It was hard for me to convert from film to digital but now that I have, I won’t go back to film. Too expensive.
Us newcomers to photography in the digital age are sometimes made to feel a bit uncomfortable about not having done real photography with chemicals in a shed.
I wish I still had my 5″x4″ Technical MPP camera. Like a lot of things in life we abandon them and move on and only later realise we have lost something irreplaceable. Nice image and reminds one of just how soon we forget the ‘joy’ of replacing the cassette every 36 shots!
I still have my Nikkormat but haven’t used it in years. It still works though. I went through several film cameras after that – some I gave to family members.
Through My Lens 
You sent me down memory lane. I started with a Brownie when I was in single digits, but I think I’m with you that the passion didn’t start until the first Pentax SLR back in the early 80s. Can’t do a pic of it since I gave it to one of the kids.
A Brownie was my first camera. I think I got it when I was in 7th or 8th grade. I just know it went everywhere with me. But my Nikkormat was my first SLR. I still have it – more for nostalgia now than anything. It still works though.
I never took to photography with film. I didn’t practise enough and it seemed too uncertain.
I loved working with film. I even did my own darkroom work with black and white. It was hard for me to convert from film to digital but now that I have, I won’t go back to film. Too expensive.
Us newcomers to photography in the digital age are sometimes made to feel a bit uncomfortable about not having done real photography with chemicals in a shed.
This is a great interpretation of the theme.
Thank you, Pat.
I wish I still had my 5″x4″ Technical MPP camera. Like a lot of things in life we abandon them and move on and only later realise we have lost something irreplaceable. Nice image and reminds one of just how soon we forget the ‘joy’ of replacing the cassette every 36 shots!
I still have my Nikkormat but haven’t used it in years. It still works though. I went through several film cameras after that – some I gave to family members.
I hope you still shoot it!
I haven’t used it in some time. I don’t have my darkroom anymore and it’s getting harder to find places that actually develop film.