Do you still have the Exakta? I got started in photography when my dad
taught me to use his SLR too. I was not yet born in 1970, but in the mid
1980s, my dad taught me to use his OM-G, then for my 11th birthday, he
bought one for me.
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On 5/20/12 2:21 PM, "Dean Hansen" <hanse112@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>1970? Long time ago. I was 28 and using my father's Exakta VXIIa, the
>camera designed for left-handed people. Actually, he let me take this
>camera along on a solo camping trip out west in 1963. I had never used
>an SLR before, and, after getting all the way out to Utah from Minnesota
>without taking a single shot, I finally sat down at a picnic table in a
>camp ground and went through the instruction manual. In less than 20
>minutes I understood all the numbers: 1.9 2.8 4 5.6 8 11; T 25 50 100
>250 500; 25 40 64 100 160 250. Looking back, I'm glad that I learned
>the rudiments of photography on a manual camera. That 20 minutes almost
>50 years was time very well spent.
>Dean
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