We were a nature loving family. Spent almost every weekend outdoors when I was growing up; backpacking, camping, and canoeing mostly. I really loved to take nature and landscape pictures. Taking pictures, however; was secondary to everything else I was doing. I never even considered spending a lot of money for a camera until I was in my mid thirties.
I was a Realtor and needed a decent camera to take photos of my listings. I knew nothing about cameras so my first purchase pretty much entailed walking into a camera shop and talking to the guy behind the counter explaining what I needed and how much I was willing to spend. He sold me a Minolta. It was one you could keep in "automatic" and it would make all the choices for you, or you could use it on manual and make your own. Of course I chose the former.
I took this picture of a sun set in California with it. I was very impressed with the results and took some really good pictures with that camera for quite awhile.
The pop up flash stopped working within about a year but I just worked around that by using 400 speed film whenever I photographed inside. Yea, this meant that I wasted a lot of film. For years my camera and I limped along like this. The rewind button finally did us in. It was this little rubber dot you had to press with the tip of a pen or something small like that. Eventually it stopped working for me. I took it to the camera shop and they told me it would cost more to fix it than the camera was worth. I'd had it about 8 years by then I think.
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