Well after 21 years I finally said "So long" to a good friend. In 1986 I met my Good friend at a K-mart in Douglas Arizona while I was in college.
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Well... met isn't quite the word... OK I bought him. Specifically I bought a
Pentax K-1000 camera. Like a very loyal dog was my K-1000. He had no fancy bells and whistles. Just the basics, manual focus, manual aperture, manual speed, and a very simple light meter. We saw a lot together. I once shot over 200 pictures at an airshow at Falcon field. I climbed mountains.
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I took a photography class with him. I made a few "effects" pictures.
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I took him with me when we went shooting in the desert.
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When Santa Claus came to town, He was there.
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He went with me on vacations.
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He was there when my sisters got carried away.
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I even took him on my Honey Moon.
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But alas it was not to last. After many years of good services his light meter stopped working correctly and, I moved on to other more "Fancy" cameras and eventually to digital. He languished unused floating about in my "Man Cave". Now he has gone off to live a new life. Last Friday I sold him on Ebay. He is on his way to live with Sam Wright of Chico California.
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I will miss him.
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