SAD212

SAD212 :: Pentax ME :: Various lenses :: HP5+ :: 2007

It's strange how I group these pictures in my head. They have nothing to do with each other, but when I think of any of them I think "2007" and "Pentax ME."

I might have told this story before, so forgive me if I'm repeating myself. Before I went to Kure Beach I went to a pawn shop and bought a Pentax ME for $35 with a 50mm/f1.7. This made it the smallest camera and fastest lens I owned.

I bought it as a throw-away to shoot on the beach. And eventually, I did throw it away, after a year of hard use in which I'd grown very attached to it.

It's funny how you (ok, I) buy things because they are bulletproof and able to withstand hard use. But then, after you use them hard for several years, you have so many memories associated with them that you don't want to put them in harm's way anymore.

I bought an F100 to replace my K1000. I then bought the ME because the K1000 was too sentimental to jeopardize. Went the F100 went down due to electronics failure, the ME became my main camera. But then I bought an FM2n to hold my badass Nikkor glass until I could afford to get my F100 fixed, though the fact that the F100 broke to begin with made me very gun shy about using nice cameras in harsh environments, so the ME still saw the most use. Following all this?

The point is, when the ME finally locked up on Chimney Rock, I was sad.

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