Any old camera.

Three cheers for Pentax Colin.

I do agree they have served me well.

Fine capture!
I first thought you meant that you left your camera in situ ... and went home!
I still have my Pentax ME (18th birthday present in 76). It served me very well together with with a couple of Hasselblad lenses. But then I didn't take any photos from 1987 until 2011 (for a variety of reasons, none of which particularly stack up now!).

My Early Pentax cameras MX and ME Super and lenses were all stolen in a burglary in the 1990s I look at the prints of photos I took with my MX and am amazed at the quality especially the sharp focus with a 50mm F1.7 lens. I agree about a period of life when I took very few photos and I know why - exhaustion from working too many hours and sometimes doing things girlfriend wanted to do that gave no opportunity. None of that matters now as I can go out and take another photo today :-)

Interesting! ... and I bet you still rankle at the theft; I know I would still be seething today!
Yes, those are some of my reasons too but I also used to go climbing and hill-walking at weekends with my old university climbing club friends and the camera simply got in the way of easy manoeuvrability on the rocks. I found it easier all round just to desist. And then got out of the habit completely. Only when I was given a second hand Nokia N95 (a far better camera than a phone) by my Spanish brother-in-law when I moved to Madrid, did I start to think I might enjoy some landscape photography.