RezaLoghme
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My first camera in college: Canon AE-1 with 50/1.8 lens. I have all the time in the world: riding a bike, with my camera and going out and taking photos of everything. The college has darkroom for B&W, and the instructor was very helpful. I was working as a part-time IT support for a local camera shop thus get color film and development cheap. That was as perfect as anything when just learning photography.
GAS happens much later when I have more funds.
In my youth, I worked at one of the largest photo retailers and pro rental facilities in the Central US. One of my many jobs was to clean up used equipment we'd just taken in to make it presentable for sale. It is there that I learned the many wonders of Nikon, Hasselblad, Leica, and such.
It is also where I learned that having the well-heeled buy- and then later trade-in the latest high end camera or lens was good for the rest of us: It put great equipment in circulation for purchase by mere mortals.
I also learned that some of the aforementioned doctors, dentists, and their fellow travelers were pretty serious photographers.
An interesting (to me) aside was the guy I worked for was a walking talking Leica encyclopedia. There wasn't much he didn't know about those cameras, lenses, and accessories. He was Jewish and of an age that he would have been a young man during the horrors of World War II. I always found it ironic that he was so drawn to German equipment. He was a tough old bird, though, and taught this callow youth a whole bunch about the photo retail industry and all things Leica.
The Holga and the Zero 2000 pinhole cameras both are 6x6 and bring an astetic I like that I can’t get with either my 35mm or medium format kit.
Once upon the mid 1980's, I was shopping in Hunt's with my then girlfriend tagging along. I noticed a Pentax 110 SLR in the case and asked about it. Deb immediately was infatuated with the thing. I bought it, and she spent the afternoon and evening shooting it and giggling at the auto winder after every shot.
That transformed my photography in a few ways. First, it reminded me that there were lots of ways to enjoy the hobby. Second, it taught me the value of having a "fast and light" system for the times my "real" cameras were as much a burden as a useful tool.
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