Camera 1: Konica TC-X

If I was not an architect, I would have been a photographer.

The hobby was infused in me by my uncle Peter, loves to take pictures and teach.The Konica TC-X was the first step of my life long hobby.

At 14 years of age, my dad brought me to a local photolab to try to get the camera that I have saved my lunch money for. It was a Yashica (called Kyocera nowadays) of some type. Trouble is that I can't afford it. All I had was RM$187 in my pocket and so the store owner showed me this camera instead. It was listed to be RM$210, but after bargaining for half an hour, I got it for exactly RM$187.

The camera came with a 50mm f1.8 standard lens. It was completely manual, center weight metering, extremely loud aluminum shutter... and it was the first ever SLR camera with plastic parts!! (Camera before that are all made of metal) Oh yes, this little bugger runs without batteries if it comes to that!

A year later I added a Sigma 80-200mm, a 2x teleconverter and a speedlite to my "system". I also became the sports photographer for my school magazine through out high school until I graduated.

I gave the system away to my host parents at Newfoundland in 1992 (I did not have anything else valuable that could return their kindness). I miss it so much.