There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
But the first camera that ever got that got me *into* photographic techniques... that's the more interesting question to answer.
For me that was the camera *after* my first camera, and that was the 3mp Olympus camedia c-3040 w/ a f/1.8 bright zoom Lens. It was just enough of a performance latitude where my friend would wonder why I pull off night shots when hers would come out dark. And just enough dof to play with where background defocusing was a consideration....uh...if you're close enough. It was enough to get me curious what kind of shots I could pull off.
that brilliant little camera was great i even picked up somebody's old c-3040 so I could relive the one-and-a-half second press-to-shot trigger time. Ahhhh, those were the days. From there I went full frame film And discovered I knew jack shit about ISO and light. That's when the real interest began. And that's when I realized you can have a big-ass body and still shoot crappy-ass shots.
Moving back to digital reallly amped up the shots/day so I learned a lot more quickly after that.