Thanks for your comment, and YES, the human mind is an amazing thing. It will never be equaled by any manmade device.

Thanks for any interesting and informative comment. It is nice to have a lifelong interest in something positive and productive.

Thanks - some people say that I have outlived my usefulness.

Thanks for the thumbs up. Have a great day.

Thanks.

Good for you. Keep at it.

Thank you for your comments. Mostly, I have enjoyed the photographic journey, with a few bleak spots. I spent about two years as a part time news photographer for a major city newspaper when I was still in my teens, later I spent four years as a fulltime professional photographer - not one of the best periods of my life. Since then, it has been mostly an avocation, occasionally teaching a few students, selling some work through local tourist gift shops. No more fulltime pro work for me anymore.

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Thanks for your comments. My first camera was the Baby Brownie. The second camera was a Kodak Duo-620 - made in Germany, f/3.5 lens, Compur shutter, 1 sec to I/500, a gift on my eighth birthday. It cost $57.50, a high price in those days of the Great Depression when a store clerk made $10 a week and a truck driver made $18 to $20. I still have that camera, still in perfect working order My third camera was an Argus A, a little plastic 35mm camera with an f/4.5 lens. It was another birthday gift, cost $12.50 and it came with a Kalart flashgun, price $12.95. The flashgun had a large external synchronizer which made the rig a little ungainly in flash mode, but I made some money with the rig, mostly shooting children's birthday parties. I charged five dollars per party. My fourth camera, which I still have, purchased in 1940, is a 4x5 Speed Graphic with a large Mendelsohn flash gun, a 150mm Zeiss Tessar lens in a Compur shutter. Many cameras came later, too many to list here.

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Thanks. At my age, I am glad to be an inspiration for any reason.

Thanks for your comments. I do remember the early Leicas. I believe it was the Leica A. It was a very rudimentary camera - no rangefinder - simple little optical viewfinder on top. I recall there was a clip next to the viewfinder which could support an independent, uncoupled rangefinder which stood vertically like a little stovepipe. Later, a few years after World War Two, the Nikon caused a sensation when it was first introduced. Most people did not believe that the Japanese could produce such a high quality instrument.

Thanks you so much.

Thanks. I hope you enjoy your day, also.

Thank you. I am glad I am still able to enjoy something.