A couple of months before the birth of my first child, one of the men I worked with, convinced me to buy his slr camera, he just happened to be selling. The camera was a Kowa reflex and had a wide angle and a telephoto , screw in, supplemental lenses. That was the beginning of my photographic career. A couple of years went by before I took out a loan and purchased my very first Nikon camera, a FTN model with a 55mm macro lens. I can't even cpount the number of cameras I have had since. Before I bought that Kowa, I had never even taken a photograph. since...more