Feb 12, 2002 08:42 AM
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(Updated Feb 12, 2002 08:46 AM)
Yes, I mean it. There are so many types of Cameras. Just open the pages of any Photographic Magazine, either Indian or Foreign, and you will be entirely confused. When I was in my teens, my father gave me a Box Camera - Kodak Brownie E -, which I still have. Its price was below Rs.50.00, and at that price, even it had a built-in Portrait Lens and a Yellow Filter. I have taken great photographs with that Camera and have got 12 x 16 enlargements from its 120 size Black & White negatives. I have one Rollieflex (TLR), and two 35 mm SLRs - EXAKTA Varex 1000 and EXAKTA Varex 2a. Great solid cameras. Fully mechanical. The only ones having built-in knives to cut the film if you want to develop some length of film for urgent work. Then the Auto-focus Compacts with Zooms of various dimensions. I have one of Yashica brand. My latest addition is the Canon EOS 888, fully automatic and autofocus. I possess a little Darling, with extra lenses. She is my Pentax 24 Exposure Auto 110. Have you tried it ? Once at the Hong Kong Airport a young girl at a Camera Shop wanted to buy it. When she failed in her attempts, she started seducing me; even then she failed, and failed miserably. I am perfectly happy with my Vivitar 285 Flash. Well, my wife says that I am mad after my Cameras. May be. Perhaps she is zealous of me, because I have my Cameras which demand my love and a lot of attention.
