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04-SEP-2006 Moon

September 4th, 2006 - K1000 2492

Cedar Creek, Texas

My first real camera, A Pentax K1000. It was a gift from my mom when I turned sixteen. That was twenty six years ago. It has been everywhere, on the tops of mountains skiing, white water canoeing, several plane trips, and tens of thousands of miles in my car, and has worked like a champ. It taught me a lot about photography and is still my favorite camera. I may need to go and load a roll of film in it and go out shooting.

Pentax *ist DL ,Quantaray 28-90mm 1:3.5-5.0 Macro AF
1/20s f/8.0 at 68.0mm iso1600 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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Sam Stevenson06-Sep-2006 00:47
Classic.
Marcus Rugger05-Sep-2006 05:30
I bought a Pentax MX in 1979. What a great camera! I had the same lens as you have there, the 50mm f/2. I wish I still had that camera.

I was in the camera store this past Saturday and they had a used K1000 for sale. I don't remember the exact price but is seems it was around $220. In 1979 when I bought my MX, if I remember correctly, the K1000 was going for $100. :-)
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