Autoweek photog with period cameras

[DrEntropy]

I'd mentioned this guy in another post a while back, the camera in this article is one I used to sell back in the PA Ma & Pa camera store, as a teen. Eastern Block, tinny and cheap!

Autoweek link

 

[Basil]

The Trabant of SLRs! Did you sell many to professionals who knew better?

 

[DrEntropy]

The Trabant of SLRs! Did you sell many to professionals who knew better?

HA! Most of 'em sat in the stockroom. Only sold a couple. ISTR the Hanimex sales rep *gave* the owner of the store a few to see if they'd sell. This was a west Pennsylvania steel town... not much use for Russian/Eastern bloc goods, regardless the price. The Japanese cameras were just getting a foothold. Nikon, Canon and Pentax were still "new kids" on the block. SLR's were only about five years in production and I could buy Mirandas at cost. Nikons were $till out of reach. The only Pro's in town were news or studio photogs, they were still using medium format for the most part.

 

[DrEntropy]

Just looked up Pete Pavlovic. Another mentor of mine, one of the pro's at the local newspaper. We lived in the same part of the county, I grew up just outside the town limits of Koppel, PA.

 

[DrEntropy]

Pete was an early role model for me. First time I ever heard the phrase: "Better to seek forgiveness than to ask permission" it came from him. Got me in hot water a few times as well. And I've got some "Pete stories" too.