I started out with my Grandfather's Box Brownie, bought a 1960's Brownie 127 and then found an old Retinette to tinker with 35mm photography. After a 10 year hiatus my interest was rekindled by friends using their Nikons & Canons so bought a budget Zenith 12TL 35mm SLR - a brilliant camera and took this to Egypt where it took fantastic shots of all the sights and Tutankhamum's treasures in the old Egyptian Museum in Cairo - before the photo ban. A friend then gave me a Minolta X300 and this was pretty slick in comparison to the Zenith and s/h lenses were cheap, so used this until I wanted more control so bought an X700. I had started snorkeling again so also bought a Sea & Sea 35mm dive camera when working in HK and thrashed this every holiday in the Adriatic. When the X700 frame counter broke (a common fault), I had already been using a Fuji MX1700 that really impressed me as a pocket camera, so stayed with Fuji and bought an S5500 bridge camera - this gave cracking shots at 4MP - a sweet spot for the sensor and image quality. . The VGA video quality was also amazingly good, with 10x zoom as well and SO light to carry around. When the battery compartment door eventually broke I purchased a Fuji HS30 but also wanted to get back to a "proper" SLR - well DSLR now, so as my partner had been using a Pentax MX and we had some Pentax lenses, hunted around and found a deal on a new Pentax k10d - a heavy, but very capable 10MP camera and swapped my Tamron Minolta 28-200 over to the Pentax using it's "adaptall" ring, but found it rather poor on the Pentax, so started acquiring a range of genuine lenses More recently, I decided to get some DSLR video capability and higher MP count with a Pentax K5 and for underwater use on summer hols a Fuji XP200 - a brilliant "use anywhere" pocket camera. The K5 recently got a new Tamron 18-200 for grab-shots to save lugging lots of zoom and primes around and it is OK except at the 18mm end when the edge distortion is rather poor. All the above cameras are still in my possession though the shutter screen on the Zenith TTL unfortunately parted company a while ago when I took it out of retirement for some nostalgic 35mm photography. The X700 got fixed and I acquired a last stock Pentax k1000 body that has never actually been sued, but was intended for some astrophotography and to replace the poor old Zenith . I picked up a shop soiled Pentax K1 FF body and have been acquiring film era FF lenses that vary in quality, but the Pentax primes are still pretty sharp. Winter weather and work has slowed my photo output down a lot but hope to get lots more images to post later in 2025.