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WHEN FILM WAS KING...
My first cameras were a Instamatic, (around the forth grade) Polaroid swinger (around the fifth and sixth grade) and my fathers Exacta w/ a waist level viewer when ever I could borrow it. In 1973 a friend sold me his Minolta 101 with 3 lenses and when that broke my Dad brought me a Nikomat EL w/ 50 mm 1.4 lens. ( That started my long love affair with Nikon Cameras ) April 1, 1977 I brought myself a Lecia CL (the year they discontinued that model ) and I started my 10 year self assignment " The Etching Room"
For events and professional portraits I worked with Hasselblads and when I finally turned to digital toyed with Nikons but eventually went Canon all the way.
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