At what age did you start taking pictures on a regular basis?

At what age did you start taking pictures on a regular basis?

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I started serious photography at age 11 when my parents bought me a Spotmatic (which they really struggled to afford) - I'd been doing it irregularly for the previous 3 years using an old Voigtlander TLR.
 
It all started a year and a half ago, when I got a kiev 4am and an Iskra. The 4am's shutter is acting kind of floppy since last week, but I was shooting with the Iskra today. It's been an engaging time of screwing up and learning and refining the skills by shooting and developing. It's been great therapy and the cameras have kept me on the tracks through a lot of trial and tribulation. The hobby has cost some bucks but it has given back so much.
 
I started with an Agfa Rapid camera that used a cartridge-type film, resulting in square images. I may have been 14-16 years old or so. Then I got my Dad's Zeiss Contina, and I was hooked.

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I was 16 (in 1985). It was in high school journalism courses and with a local newspaper photog that mentored me. After a year or so with a borrowed Pentax K1000 it was time to step up. I had a part time job and my parents co-signed for my first bank loan so I could buy a Nikon FE2, MD-12, 24/2.8, 85/2 and 180/2.8. That was a TON of money for a 17 year old but the lenses stayed with me for nearly 20 years and the work I did as a teenage stringer more than paid for the investment... Fond memories.
 
At the tender age of 8 I was given a Hawkeye Brownie (tale told elsewhere here) and I've been shooting ever since.
 
For my 8th birthday, my Grandfather gave me a Kodak Target-620 box camera. I was just facinated, and have been ever since. Boy, those 8 exposure rolls sure went fast!

Later my Dad set up a darkroom, and that was another facination. Dad gave me a Voigtlander Bessa 66 (Baby) for my 12th birthday. Things were better, that took 10 exposures. When I was in college I got a Retina Reflex S. 35mm, interchangeable lenses - Wow. Things have snowballed from there. :cool:
 
When my Dad passed away I got his Contax RTS and fell in love with photography. That was about 18 years ago & I was in my early 40's. I really got serious about 7 years ago.
 
I began with 8mm movie film in 1965. Shot that a few years and in 1984 I bought a Minolta X-370 SLR. I used it up and went to an X-700. I went through two of those and moved on to a Canon T-90. Now I am into RF.

Regards,
Tom
 
After some pennypinching, I got my fist instamatic at age 8. My dad already let me use his Contax soemtimes. After a lot of saving, I finally got my first RF, a Canonet 28, when I was 11.
 
14 for me, with my parents old Minolta SR1. But by age 15 or so, I'd graduated to a K1000 after the Minolta proved less than reliable. I've been using Nikon equipment since 1985 (age 20).
 
about 4 years ago, or 14. I pretty much stole my sister's Kodak digicam until I got my 20D when I was 16. My M2 came at 17 with lenses throughout the year, and a whole slew of Canon L lenses came this last birthday, my 18th.
 
I'm 30 and I started real photography 20 months ago, after the birth of my daughter.
Before I had a digital P&S, and before that when I was 16 a film P&S. So I guess the birth of my daughter is also my "birth" to photography. I started with an Olympus OM10, then a Pentax MX; 2 months later, a Zorki 4K, 2 Zorki 4K, one Zorki4. One month later, I bought my first Leica (III), a Leica M2 a few months later and today a Rolleiflex 3.5F.
I can say that I started "taking pictures on a regular basis" for one year and a half. Not too bad :eek:
 
oscroft said:
I started serious photography at age 11 when my parents bought me a Spotmatic (which they really struggled to afford) - I'd been doing it irregularly for the previous 3 years using an old Voigtlander TLR.
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sepiareverb said:
At the tender age of 8 I was given a Hawkeye Brownie (tale told elsewhere here) and I've been shooting ever since.
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8?? That young! Wow you impress me, guys.
 
Age 13, 1976 when my Dad drove me to the city and brought me down to one of the old camera shops on Kearny St. in San Francisco (that street is a glimmer of what it once was, maybe one shop left---rip-off joint too), and we bought a Pentax K1000, 55mm lens and a 200mm Vivitar (wow, a telephoto lens!). It was between that or a Fujica something. I really wanted a Nikon FM2 or Olympus OM1 but my meager newspaper route savings could not handle it.
 
pesphoto said:
Sounds like dad has had a big influence on a lot of us here.....
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Just ask Ash (and myself). Dad is the only guy who has the money for the cameras I don't have when said cameras would be most useful. :p
 
I started a couple of years ago, with a (sorry) Nikon Coolpix, then I moved back (forward? ;-) ) to the lovely Oly 35 RC that I used on a school trip in Prague at 16.
 
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