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Message: <blockquote data-quote="piperbarb" data-source="post: 117039" data-attributes="member: 12214">When I was in my teens, my father let me use his cameras, grudgingly, though.  While in college, I bought a Pentax K1000, a slew of lenses, then a Pentax K2DMD.  By the time I was in graduate school, I started picking up Nikons, the first being a Nikon F w/ metered pentaprism and matched motor drive (bought used).   It helped that I worked in a camera shop where I got to play with all the cameras they had.I was the one who got my father into Nikons.  He still had his Leicas but had to admit that he liked the ease of use and lens quality of Nikon.  He got the F4 when it first came out and a bunch of lenses.  I'm still using most of those lenses.</blockquote>