In the beginning

 In Magoo beginning

Sometime around 1971 or so, for $25 Magoo purchased from his Williston high school science teacher a Yashica JP SLR with a 135mm lens and an external Sekonic light meter.

In 1973, with his graduation money, Magoo from Harmons photo in Gainesville purchased for around $125 a Honeywell Pentax Spotmatic with 50mm 1.8 Super Takamar lens with an internal needle meter. But before that, in the late sixties, I had a Polaroid Swinger, a magical little camera that an internal light would tell you when exposure was correct and sixty seconds later you could see your print.

Then there were the Nikons, the FM2, the FE, the F3, the digital D40 up to the D850, which will probably be my last camera.