My first SLR. Manual everything – focus, shutter, aperture…. there’s not even an on/off switch. Most of the time it sits on a shelf with other remembrances, but occasionally, for fun, I load it and shoot a roll. When I pick it up, my hand still checks the wind lever for tension long before my brain engages and remembers where the controls are on top. Built like a tank, this camera should’ve quit working years ago. I fell out of a truck near Thies and this was among the gear in the bag I landed on; I hurt for a week, but the camera kept on shooting – didn’t even pop open and ruin the film. I shot Folly and surrounding areas with this camera for years – not a spec of rust on it. I would have stayed with Pentax… tried to stay with Pentax. They were just too slow bringing a decent DSLR to market. Thus, the caption below:

Canon 7D 50mm f/2.2