How young were you when to started to take pictures

4 years old and given a Box Brownie. Still got it somewhere.
 
I didn't start taking photography seriously until about 2002 (aged23). Thats when i got my first film SLR.
I remember as a child though playing about with my uncles 35mm cameras. I think it was him who inspired me to pic up SLR cameras later in life.
 
6 or 7 when a camera was first thrust into my hot, sticky hands - a 110 instamatic. About 40 years ago. Not sure how much my photography's improved in that time but I know my current kit's better!
 
I used to like taking pictures when I was a child but the cost of films and developing was a barrier so I didn't get a lot of chances to take pictures. When I was 11 (1972) I asked for a camera and I got a Kodak Instamatic 126 I think it cost £1 or £1.50.

I was lucky to be working for a distribution company when digital cameras came out so got to play when they were £1000 for a 1mp back in the late 90's...a spell working for a camera manufacturer cemented my love of photography with low overheads, just feeding my addiction to the next decent camera at staff pricing LOL.
 
I was about 8 or 9 with a box brownie,then a Kodak 44a. My first 35mm was an Ilford Sportsman, which I still have.
 
18 I started on a serious basis. But still learning 37 years later.
 
I guess I was.. maybe 5 or 6 when I first had a camera, a fairly cheap little film camera. Got first digital at about.. 10? A basic digi. Got a more interesting digi (with PASM modes which was my Dad's old one at 14, bought my DSLR at 18.

Not sure really when I got so interested, definitely by 12 or 13. Before that it was mainly on holidays etc.
 
It was the box Brownie for me on family outings when I was a kid, for as long as I can remember. I have no idea why, but I was charged with the responsibility of taking the pics. When I was about 10 a neighbour who was a chemist showed me how to make contact prints from the hoards of family negatives which just completely cemented my fascination with the whole magical process. I soon built an elnarger from instructions in a library book. The lamphouse was made out of a couple of old baking tins which got so hot yoiu could get sunburned standing by it! :cool:

When I left school at 15 the first thing I started saving for was a 35mm camera, Noithing much to add really after that - it's pretty much samo samo to this day. :shrug:
 
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Around 9 with disposable film cameras, then moved onto 'proper' film cameras (Olympus Trip!)Went through a couple of those, then went on to Digital compacts at 16, went through to Bridge cameras at 20, not being able to afford an SLR and in the last couple of years I've been on Film and Digital SLRs and have now settled on my GH1 for Digital and OM30 for film aged 25.

Still have a long way to go, I've only just bought my first 'proper' flash!
 
About 12 or 13 with a Zenit Film SLR, was always limited by the cost of film and developing as a teenager, moved onto a Pentax ME soon after.

Did photography A Level at 16, i was using a Minolta Dynax 7xi Film SLR by that point always loaded with Ilford B+W film self developed in the College darkroom.

I had a break of about 3 years from photography while at Uni then bought a 350D when I graduated 4 years ago, and have been taking more and more pictures ever since.....
 
I started taking photos rather than snaps when I was 43 and got my first digital SLR a canon D30.
 
12 (thirty years ago) with a £10 Miranda SLR bought off my dad who got it in Singapore in 1964...
 
probably when I was about 5 years old - I was given my mums old 110 instamatic thing. Never been without a camera since.
 
Like I said in your other thread...

I pestered my Mam and Dad to take the family photo's on holiday when I was about 10 years old because I hated seeing images of myself. Even at that age, I'd sussed that if you're behind the camera, you don't show up in the photos very often. By 12 they'd bought me a camera, by 13 I was a member of the schools photography club and was saving for my first SLR camera, developing and printing my own shots. 35 years later, I'm still hoping to take my first decent photo :lol:
 
I must have been about 9 or 10 with a real bottom of the range 35mm film camera that belonged to my parents. a couple of years later they splashed out what was a lot of money for the family at the time and got me a SLR for my birthdya... good old Zenith EM and I still have it now almost 30 years later. :thumbs:
 
I started taking photos mainly when I got my first digital compact in 2003 (aged 15). I got 'seriously' into photography about 4 years later (aged 19) when I purchased my DSLR.
 
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