Qualifications

So, the all-important question that is asked of any photo blogger:

What qualifications do I have to be talking about photography?

It's an easy answer: None.

I was given a camera when I was young - it was a little 35mm point-and-shoot box camera, but it sparked an interest in photography for me.

I took a photography class a few years later as junior high school student. While in that class, I was given my first SLR, a Vivitar V2000. Twenty years later, it is still my primary film camera.

And here's the inevitable list of Other Cameras:

In 2005, I purchased my first digital camera - a Polaroid i1032 point-and-shoot that just gobbled up any AA batteries I was brave enough to insert.

In 2007, I used a severance package to purchase a Pentax K10D, which is now my primary digital camera. It can use the same lenses as the Vivitar film camera - and I've picked up a fair number of those, including some fun ones.

A year or so later, I picked up a secondary digital camera, a Pentax Optio M40. A point-and-shoot that also does some video.

In the summer of 2011, I visited my wife's family and her uncle gave me a Polaroid Land Camera 210.

Once I had that working, a customer noticed it. "I have something that I think you'll like," he told me. "I just need to bring it in."

It turned out to be four somethings, which were brought in to show me a few months ago.

He not only showed them to me, but he gave them to me.  A Pacemaker Crown Graphic, a Komaflex-S, and two Polaroids designed for the 600 series film.

I'll write more about the cameras and my results thus far in future posts. Unless you get bored and wander off.