I miss my Zenit camera
In 1984 I bought a Zenit camera in a flea-market in Perth (Australia) for $20 AUD.
I had to sell it one year later (for $50 US) to one of the employees at the Airport in Manado (Indonesia) because I had to pay the airport tax and I didn't have enough cash, they didn't take traveler checks. my tourist visa expired the day after, and the police at the airport kindly informed me that they couldn't renew it, and if I wasn't able to leave the country in the next 24h, they had no option other than putting me in jail until they could contact my embassy in Jakarta. Of course there was another option, but I probably wasn't going to be able to afford.
The only flight available out of the country within the next 24h was coincidentally the first flight of a recently inaugurated route to Guam. "But you need a visa" the police officer informed me with a big grin on his face, that quickly dissipated when I showed him my Multiple Indefinitely Bearer(s) visa.
And so I went to Guam, with other 2 passengers in total, leaving behind my Zenith to a guy who considered himself to be very fortunate for having made such a great deal.
That camera had accompanied me in my travels around South East Asia. It was a great camera, hard and heavy as a brick. It fell to the ground several times, it got wet, and still worked fine, just a few additional scratches. I was very very sorry to have to part with it.
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