Camera Family Portrait

[Old Timer]

I thought about you yesterday. Yesterday was our seventh anniverisary, so the wife and I spent the day together. We went to Greenville and had hot Krispy Kreme donoughts for breakfast, Olive Garden for lunch and did a little shopping in between.

On our way out of town we stopped by my favorite camera shop, ASAP Photo and I bought a couple of small things. I also admired their used Nikons. They have F's, FA's, FEII's, FG's, an FM 2, and some Nikkormat's, just to name the ones I remember! They even had a F3 on the counter with a manual focus 300mm f2.8. And I thought about you and your 30+ year collection of Nikons.

BTW, they also have plenty of auto cameras. N5005, N6006, N8008, N8008s, three N90's , a pair of F100's,... you get the idea.

I love going into this camera store! ;-)
I'm sure it would be your kind of place if you lived near here.

Congradulation on the anniverisary. Seven and counting, let hope for a big number. You got a ways to go to match Joy and I, we are coming up on 33 this year. One of the things I love about her is that like your Dawn she encourages my photography. Anytime we are in a town big enough to have a camera shop she always ask if I want to stop by and play a while. You got to love a women like that.

[Axle]

I found out an interesting story behind this particular camera in my collection, the Zenith-B. This camera was made in the USSR and was never avalible in North America. And well I had promised to show it to a member of my church, she wasn't there, however another guy from the church saw it sitting out by the sound board, since we both worked at the back in the tech booth. So he picked it up and started examining it. Well it turns out that the camera I had bought at a garage sale for $5.00 used to be his, a gift from his brother who had purchased the camera in West Germany. Then after the guy from church was done, gave it to one of his friends, from whom I had bought it at the garage sale.

Funny how things work like that.

And thank you for sharing your collection.

[SmartWombat]

I'm still trying to find my old Zenit-EM and the 135mm prime and extension tube set and flashes that I used to use when I was a teenager.

[Old Timer]

I'm still trying to find my old Zenit-EM and the 135mm prime and extension tube set and flashes that I used to use when I was a teenager.

I had my first SLR stolen in December of 1971. It was a Pentax H1a. I found one on E Bay about a year ago and bought it. My camera cabinet feels complete again.