Jay, I used the the K1000 from 1988 until I got an Olympus C-2100UZ digital -- it was the closest thing you could get to an affordable dSLR in 2002. The "UZ" stood for ultra-zoom -- it had an 8x optical zoom, as I recall, and image stabilisation. Before the Pentax, I had an old Kodak 110. Folks used to sneer at the Uzi (as I called her) because she was only a 2.1mp camera, but as I said earlier, it's the person, not the camera that matters. These were taken with the Uzi, in 2002 and 2005, respectively.
Callaway Gardens Butterfly Exhibit in Sept 2002
My apartment complex (GA) in Jan 2005
