I bought my first "real" camera as an American sailor in Vietnam in 1968 where I began to decode the mysteries of exposure, depth of field, and all of that, the hard way - by waiting many weeks to see the results of what I thought I had shot and figuring what I had done wrong. Now after many years of shooting digital, which I still do, with several fine Nikon and Olympus cameras, I'm getting re-acquainted with film. The Petri FT SLR and lenses I bought in in 1968 still work, other than the camera's built-in light meter. And I've since acquired a Russian Zorki 4k (Leica clone) and a really great 50 year old Olympus 35RC, along with my father's old light meter. I miss Kodachrome, though one day soon I will send out a bunch of my ancient Kodachrome slides and have them digitized.