Gerard Klaassen
Active Member
This theme seems more than clear, empty your shoeboxes and please join in, it doesn't matter how old your photos are or whether it's color or black & white photos, as long as there's a story attached to it you want to share (above all) on this forum.
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Let me start with this photo, the first portrait photo I took (in the period 1980/1981) of my wife with her latest acquisition, a Pentax ME camera with a Takumar 135mm lens as far as I can remember.
For her this camera was an introduction to the photography hobby, for me - a starting professional photographer with among others Hasselblad, Linhof and Nikon equipment - this camera was an absolute revelation at the time and in this digital age I'd buy a digital version of a Pentax ME with my eyes closed if something like that would come on the market.
Small in size but comfortable in the hand, light in weight, without complicated buttons and options but with the necessary settings, with the so-called winder for automatic film transport that we bought quite quickly it turned out to be the perfect travel companion on holidays.
My wife, but perhaps even more so myself in particular, had a lot of fun with this camera.
(the attached photo is an edited reproduction of a heavily purple/blue discoloured postcard-size photo - Kodak paper - that I recently found after almost 40 years in a box in the basement during a clean-out)
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Let me start with this photo, the first portrait photo I took (in the period 1980/1981) of my wife with her latest acquisition, a Pentax ME camera with a Takumar 135mm lens as far as I can remember.
For her this camera was an introduction to the photography hobby, for me - a starting professional photographer with among others Hasselblad, Linhof and Nikon equipment - this camera was an absolute revelation at the time and in this digital age I'd buy a digital version of a Pentax ME with my eyes closed if something like that would come on the market.
Small in size but comfortable in the hand, light in weight, without complicated buttons and options but with the necessary settings, with the so-called winder for automatic film transport that we bought quite quickly it turned out to be the perfect travel companion on holidays.
My wife, but perhaps even more so myself in particular, had a lot of fun with this camera.
(the attached photo is an edited reproduction of a heavily purple/blue discoloured postcard-size photo - Kodak paper - that I recently found after almost 40 years in a box in the basement during a clean-out)
