Min first SLR camera! A Pentax Spotmatic which belonged to the family and which I photographed a lot with when we visited our relatives on our holidays in Sri Lanka. Completely manual and I used either Ilford black and white 125 ASA or KodakChrome 200 ASA slide film.
I must have been around 9-10 years old and I still remember the smell of the leather from the camera when you looked through the viewfinder, feel of the lens grip when adjusting the sharpness, the clicking of the aperture ring and the precision to put the film strip correctly over the small cogwheels inside the camera.
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