From: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!ittapp!steve
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Title: Re: reply on novice camera request
Article-I.D.: ittapp.203
Posted: Fri Jul  2 10:06:14 1982
Received: Sat Jul  3 01:46:27 1982
References: rabbit.576

I guess I'm really disappointed. I just found out my KONICA TC that has been
with me only four-and-a-half years is not reliable. I don't know how to tell
my wife that a camera that has been abused by a gorilla with ten thumbs and
has only pilot errors to its credit is not going to hold together. I'm
stuck with one of those gosh-awful VIVATAR flash units on top of that. Its
just incredible that all this time I've had a lousy rig just on the verge of
failing. That guy with the NIKON who helped me pick it out must have though
I was an easy touch. I had never owned an SLR and I was green when it came to
setting the aperture and shutter speed. I just wanted a good automatic
exposure SLR that I could use to take pictures of my daughter who at the time
had just been born. Gee, I guess all those good pictures were just flukes...