Photography

I started taking photographs at around 12 years age. My father was an avid photographer, perhaps related to his business of running small movie theaters in Eastern Washington.  He gave me two old, but fine, cameras.  First was twin lens reflex camera, sold by Kodak but made in Europe.  The second was a 35 mm slide camera, an Exa.  I first started using it for my trip to the south Pacific and in the Cascades before then.  Near the end of that trip, I purchased a duty-free Pentax in Fiji, and I used that camera (with a separate light meter) for many years.  Later on, I used a Pentax Spotmatic camera, as in Asia (along with the old twin lens!).  Then there was a succession of 35 mm reflex cameras, including Nikons with a micro-Nikkor lens, until 2002, when I went digital starting with a Nikon Coolpix 5000. With adapter. it became an excellent microscope camera for many years. I tend to use high quality viewfinder cameras with strong macro capabilities.  I presently use an Olympus Stylus TG4 for most of my macrophotography, and a Lumix DC ZS200 for landscape and closeup photography.