When I was shopping for my Rebel XT earlier this year, Angela told me that she had an old SLR camera that used to belong to her father. She thought it must be a good camera because he was an avid amateur photographer, and took the camera all over the world. However, the camera had just been sitting in storage for the past decade or so. Then two months ago Angela visited her mother, dug out the camera, and brought it to my house to show me. It turned out to be a Ricoh KR-5 SLR with a bunch of lenses and other accessories. It had some issues though... including a film speed selector that had been glued in place and couldn't rotate anymore.

After we looked at it, she left it at my house. Since it was here I decided to take it to Toronto to have it repaired and cleaned. Then I cleaned up all of the accessories, bought a few things that were missing, made sure everything worked, and bought a new gadget bag that everything would fit in. Then I wrapped it all up and gave it to Angela for her birthday. Now she has a fully working camera, and the only thing left is for her to become familiar with how to use a fully manual SLR. ;)

During the restoration process, I decided to do some tests to make sure that the camera actually worked. This is a photo I took with Angela's KR-5. I also used this photo as the front of Angela's birthday card. This weekend at Blue Skies will be the first true test of the camera in a decade, and also Angela's introduction into the wonderful world of SLR photography.

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awwwwww... mike's such a sweet guy!  hey... i gotta bike in my garage that
hasn't been used in about 10 years... wanna fix it up for me and give it to me
for my birthday!? :-P

btw, no technical stats on the camera settings.  what
gives?

It was ISO-400 film, and was taken on a tripod with a 50mm lens at f/2.8.  I
believe the exposure time was 1/60th of a second.