Just the 10th image recorded (on film) on my then new Asahi Pentax Spotmatic II with Takumar 50mm lens. So new was the camera that I was still to get it. My father shot this in Sigatoka, Fiji in early August 1972 while on holiday there. Fiji was duty free in those days and a camera like this (Spotmatic) was a lot cheaper than in New Zealand with duty and sales tax applied.
Outside a movie theatre that shows both English and Hindi (later called Bollywood) films. When I saw these slides for the first time (August 1972) little did I know that within 26 months I would be going to see Hindi movies and within four years would be married to an Indo-Fijian.
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July 27th 1974, onboard an Air New Zealand DC8 from Auckland to Nadi (Fiji). This is a scan from a transparency (slide). Shot with an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic II and 50mm f1.4 standard lens (when a camera had a 50 - 55mm lens as standard - no good zooms in those days).
This was also my first international flight. Subsequently I have been back to Fiji about 20 times, Australia at least 4 times, Canada/USA once and one trip to Rarotonga.
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Our rental car in Fiji - 1974. Asahi Pentax SPII, Kodachrome slide, scanned on Epson V700.
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Nausori Highlands, Nadi area. July 1973
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Nausori Highlands, Nadi area
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