.....and then I got my Pentax!

 I am not sure when.......but I think it must have been in 1968 or 1969 that I got my Asahi Pentax 35mm single-lens reflex camera.  I used that camera for 40 years, replacing it with a Leica X, my first Leica.  

I 'dabbled' at photography as a hobby that I could career-change dream about.  I actually was paid for some stuff I did but I realized that I could never earn enough through photography to support a family.  The second bathroom of the first house I ever owned was converted to a darkroom - the second darkroom I ever had.  I developed black and white film and enlarged prints from negatives.  I loved it.  And then child # 2 came along......bye bye darkroom.

And yet.....that camera was in my Guangzhou office on the last day I was in Guangzhou.  It was loaded with film - the only film camera I had left.  Is it still in Guangzhou?  Along with assorted photographic equipment?  Along with an antique Rollei-flex?     Interesting questions that I've long since stopped thinking about.  The chances are I'd never find out so who cares??  Not I.....!

Anyhow, Joanna has my Leica D, the first of this 'varietal'.  TianTian has that light weight Leica X.   I've written about my little Kodak camera and that means all that is left to write about are my two Leicas and a Fuji Mini-Evo.......

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