lxmike
M2 fan.
a bit of both for,me
Did you get into photography because you liked photos or cameras?
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Tony Whitney
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I've been fascinated with cameras since I was a kid with a Braun Paxette and bought my first Leica more than 40 years ago (a IIIB). My interest never waned and I'm still "addicted" and try to shoot something every day - these days with my M6, S3, GXR, X100 or V-Lux 3...TW
Graham Line
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My editor said "you'll need some pictures to go with that and all the photographers have games to cover today . . . "
68degrees
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excellent photo. I feel it.
FrankS
Registered User
Thanks. My Ex girlfriend walking away with her new boyfriend, I just happened upon them while walking in a blizzard (pathetic fallacy) because I was bummed out that we had just split.
This demonstrated to me how personally powerful a photograph can be.
It's over 30 years old now.
And I'm almost over it.
😉
This demonstrated to me how personally powerful a photograph can be.
It's over 30 years old now.
And I'm almost over it.
😉
Darthfeeble
But you can call me Steve
I wanted to be an artist but couldn't draw to my satisfaction. I have always been "one" with machinery, suddenly I could play with a machine and make a picture. Wow!
Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
Photos. I can make photographs with just about any good camera. You can always tell who has a thin commitment to the image when you see people saying things like "If film production ever stops, I'll stop photographing rather than use a digital camera", or "I didn't like photography until digital revolutionized it, now I shoot 500,000 photos a week!"
viboons
Established
I tried painting but didn't work for me. Photography works. So I pick up a camera.
DNG
Film Friendly
The idea to record things around me is more important than whats recording it at first (all we had was film in the 1970's)
I use both film and digital now, still to record things around me... for different reasons and/or for the "Looks" or "Texture" of the final image.
I use both film and digital now, still to record things around me... for different reasons and/or for the "Looks" or "Texture" of the final image.
oftheherd
Veteran
My father was an avid amature photographer so I had the interest of a child about what was important to his father. I used an old box camera at times. After his death and my entry into junior college, I took a short plunge into using some of his old gear, a Welta Welti, and a 9x12 folder. I had to use cameras for my job in the US Army in Vietnam. Got an SLR. About 1974, my job site didn't even have a decent crime scene camera, and I got interested. Then it got fun to do my own photography and development. Off to the races.
Then when RFF came along, here I came and due to the drop in prices, GAS.
Then when RFF came along, here I came and due to the drop in prices, GAS.
Haigh
Gary Haigh
I got into cameras first, because they were used in the lab I was working in. There was a keen photographer there who helped me with picture taking and printing.
zuiko85
Veteran
Oh! Shiny pretty toys! Me like, me like very much.
Seriously, a little of both. Grew up with Nat Geo, Life, Look, etc., so my idea of good photography was formed by those magazines.
When cameras started to look like semi melted plastic blobs (the Canon T-90 is an early example) I lost lost interest in the hardware. Became stuck in the 70's with such cameras as Nikon F2's, Canon F-1 (early all mechanical model, got to be all mechanical) Minolta SRT, Pentax Spotmatic, and of course my choice, the Olympus OM-1.
I have an irrational fear and loathing for any camera that requires batteries to operate. It's a minor compulsion.....I can deal with it if I want to.....It's just that I don't want to.
Seriously, a little of both. Grew up with Nat Geo, Life, Look, etc., so my idea of good photography was formed by those magazines.
When cameras started to look like semi melted plastic blobs (the Canon T-90 is an early example) I lost lost interest in the hardware. Became stuck in the 70's with such cameras as Nikon F2's, Canon F-1 (early all mechanical model, got to be all mechanical) Minolta SRT, Pentax Spotmatic, and of course my choice, the Olympus OM-1.
I have an irrational fear and loathing for any camera that requires batteries to operate. It's a minor compulsion.....I can deal with it if I want to.....It's just that I don't want to.
mwoenv
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Photos. When I was a teenager in late 1960s, it was the start of the proliferation of images thanks to rock music, and that got me interested in images. That led me to discover other types of photography.
As for gear, I had only one camera from 1970 to 1986 (Konica Auto S2) which I used a lot and I developed all my black and white film and prints. In 1986 I added a Minolta SLR with 2 lenses. I've picked up a lot of film cameras and darkroom equipment only recently, from 2008 to 2010 during the big sell-off of film gear, thanks to digital.
As for gear, I had only one camera from 1970 to 1986 (Konica Auto S2) which I used a lot and I developed all my black and white film and prints. In 1986 I added a Minolta SLR with 2 lenses. I've picked up a lot of film cameras and darkroom equipment only recently, from 2008 to 2010 during the big sell-off of film gear, thanks to digital.
raphaelaaron
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to be honest, it was the camera.
i just thought it was cool. had a fascination for vintage mechanics, and saw a Canon AE-1 in a bin at a goodwill for 10 bucks. Couldn't go wrong, and it still worked nicely.
I still have that camera. great memories.
later on, it was the idea of taking pictures i thought were good that drove me the rest of the way.
i just thought it was cool. had a fascination for vintage mechanics, and saw a Canon AE-1 in a bin at a goodwill for 10 bucks. Couldn't go wrong, and it still worked nicely.
I still have that camera. great memories.
later on, it was the idea of taking pictures i thought were good that drove me the rest of the way.
shobie
Newbie
For me, I think it was probably the camera. I used to hate taking photos on digital point 'n' shoots, and just gave up after a while. I only saw it as photography and not taking snapshots when I decided to take the plunge and by a decent camera for a holiday I was going on 🙂
Richard G
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Richard G
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Photos. I came from another country and the photos of our time there were under glass on my mother's dressing table as I grew up. The moon landing and the Kennedy assassination fascinated me. The documentary photograph really grabbed me as a ten year old. Sure I liked my mother's Zeiss Ikon and later I acquired a stable of Leicas and more lenses than I need, but even the marvels of photography, the film, the smell of it, the exposure, the development, the printing, it's all secondary to the making of an image. These are either records of family or events, or explorations of light in the world around me. That too possibly dates back farthest, to when I was six months old and acquired glasses. Instead of ripping them off, I leant forward and started picking fluff off the carpet, something I had never seen before.
Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
This is how the Turnley brothers got started. They were football players in high school, and one of them got hurt and couldn't play so he took up photography and then the other brother got into it too. They started out with a Nikon F2 that they shared until they could afford a second camera. This was in the 70s. I heard this story a million times when I was in high school. I went to the same school that David and Peter Turnley went to, and had the same photo teacher, even though I was a student almost 20 years later!
back alley
IMAGES
photos first...
then it's a toss up between photographers and gear.
i remember checking out rolling stone magazine and others like life etc. and being facinated by the images and at the same time wondering about the people who took the pictures...then i started to read photo mags from the newstand and they were mostly gear related with a hint of how to thrown in.
so long ago that i mostly forgot the route...
then it's a toss up between photographers and gear.
i remember checking out rolling stone magazine and others like life etc. and being facinated by the images and at the same time wondering about the people who took the pictures...then i started to read photo mags from the newstand and they were mostly gear related with a hint of how to thrown in.
so long ago that i mostly forgot the route...
Ronald_H
Don't call me Ron
Despite being an engineer and (still) not much of an artist, definitely photos .
My colleague was an avid photographer, using Contax gear. When we went on business trips together his pictures were obviously much better than mine, shot with bargain basement fixed focus fixed everything POS cameras. I wanted to be able to make pictures as good as he did, so I started reading to understand the basics and then bought an SLR. And a scanner. Soon I was doing concert photography so on to much, much better (faster) lenses and cameras. I have my own dark room now, develop my own, print my own. I shoot RAW with my digitals. Have been pusblished in artwork of well known Dutch artists and in newspapers without ever lifting a finger to promote myself or commercialize my work. I don't even know how many cameras I own anymore and I also trade gear on a small scale. Yeah... photography.
My colleague was an avid photographer, using Contax gear. When we went on business trips together his pictures were obviously much better than mine, shot with bargain basement fixed focus fixed everything POS cameras. I wanted to be able to make pictures as good as he did, so I started reading to understand the basics and then bought an SLR. And a scanner. Soon I was doing concert photography so on to much, much better (faster) lenses and cameras. I have my own dark room now, develop my own, print my own. I shoot RAW with my digitals. Have been pusblished in artwork of well known Dutch artists and in newspapers without ever lifting a finger to promote myself or commercialize my work. I don't even know how many cameras I own anymore and I also trade gear on a small scale. Yeah... photography.
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