considering selling some of my many cameras, I recalled one of the dumbest things that I've done......In 1970, I sold the Alpa Alnea 9-D camera that I got from Werner Von Braun.....to my next door neighbor....for $135!....., replacing it with a Pentax Spotmatic....later......duh!.... Then, to compound my stupidity, I sold my Hasselblad for $300 because I couldn't afford a new 'film back' for the instrument!, later replacing it with a look-a-like Bronica! duh...duh! The 'upside' is that I never use a 'real' camera anymore...just my 5 year-old phone-camera.....It's not about the 'hardware', anyway....but the brain and eye behind the viewfinder.......I was accepted by Brooks, with a portfolio done with a 'shoebox' pinhole camera and homemade film, made from photosensitive paper that I made in my mother's coat closet.......Brooks instructed me to 'get' a Calumet 'view' camera for 'sheet film'.....so I sold the beautiful 1933 Leica IIIF for that 'box on a tripod'......then, never went to California......ditching the Calumet for a stack of books on American Composition and Rhetoric and a box of Agrarian Writers' works, 2 D.H. Lawrence novels, 2 Henry James novels, a 1st Edition of Joyce's ULYSSES and The Complete Works Of William Faulkner......I still have that old Mamiya, with a 'motor drive'....but it languishes, in it's original box, as it has for the past 2 decades....maybe longer........
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