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For years I shot B&W film in old cameras; TLRs, large format press cameras, and the older all-manual SLRs like the Nikon FM series, the Minolta SRT, Pentax K1000, and my built-like-brick-shithouse Chinon CX II. That is because I was too cheap to buy a new plastic mega-pixel modern marvel, and too old to change my wicked ways. It wasn't until the very last week of 2011 that I broke down and bought a digital camera; a Nikon P7100. To this day, it remains the only digital camera that I have ever owned.

The great irony is that for a few years I made my living as an industrial photographer with one of those company-supplied Nikon mega-pixel modern marvels. Of all professional photography jobs, the humble tasks of the product photographer may be the least glamorous of all. Carburetors, inner tubes, tire tread, battery chargers, and throttle potentiometers; all needed their pretty little portraits. I eventually passed that job to a very talented younger colleague better acquainted with the digital world of pixels and software. Now I'm fully retired, usually broke, and do not give a fuck.