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My first camera was a Canon AV-1 with a 50mm lens. It was a semi-automatic one, but very nice. I bought it in New York in 1982 and in its manual I learned almost everything I know about photography. Later I have acquired other lenses: a 28mm and a zoom 70-210mm, both Canon. By the way, this 28mm is a fantastic lens, with an image quality I never found in any other.

But with time it became too simple for me and I decided to get a more modern camera, with auto-exposure and auto-focus, though still allowing me to have full control of all settings: I bought, in the end of 1991, a Minolta Maxxum 7xi with two Tokina lenses (28-70mm and 70-210mm). Great camera, but I think I need better lenses. Pity I let some water drop on it during my trip in the Caribbean and it stopped working... I have to see if it can be fixed, but anyway I bought a Minolta 600si, which has some better and worse features than the 7xi.

I also had an "auto-everything" Pentax IQ Zomm 90 camera, whose excelent image quality surprised me, but one of my brothers returned it to me out of work... In 2000 I purchased a Sealife Reefmaster, for underwater pictures. Recently I joined the digital photography era, with the small Fuji FinePix 2650. I'm liking it very much and photos are turning our fairly good, as you can check on the tests I ran, by clicking here.

As my passion for photography is very big, I have a special page, Photography Corner (English only), where you can find some of my photos, as well as my friends', plus an extensive list of links. See you there!

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