My interest in photography can be directly linked to the american lunar missions back in the 1960's. My first attempts at photography, as a 17-year old teenager, were at a holiday trip using my fathers old plastic camera (we didn't get mobile telephones with built-in cameras in the 1960's). A month later we could experience Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon.

The astronauts used Hasselblad cameras for most of their missions. A camera, which was outside my budget by a wide margin. But on the early missions they did bring Nikon, and that inspired me to buy my first semi-professional camera, a Nikkormat FTN.

I traded in the Nikkormat for more expensive equipment some years later, but being a nostalgic I hunted down a similar model on ebay last year.

By the way, I never got around to buying a Hasselblad. You get older, the kids leave home, and you get the economy to buy more expensive equipment. But some dreams probably should remain dreams.

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