When, Where and how you started in photography
Nov 24, 2023 05:27:17 #
Jeffcs
Loc: Myrtle Beach South Carolina
Wow
Blast from the passed
I think I was around 10 mom n dad gave Mr a canon tlql with a 50mm lens, as I recall, for Christmas we were going to Williamsburg over the holidays. I also got 3 rolls of film. I sat in the back seat read,reread the manual on the way to Williamsburg. I shot all 3 rolls of film in the first day, yes they bought more. I was hooked and that was 60 years ago
Blast from the passed
I think I was around 10 mom n dad gave Mr a canon tlql with a 50mm lens, as I recall, for Christmas we were going to Williamsburg over the holidays. I also got 3 rolls of film. I sat in the back seat read,reread the manual on the way to Williamsburg. I shot all 3 rolls of film in the first day, yes they bought more. I was hooked and that was 60 years ago
Nov 24, 2023 06:00:55 #
cmc4214
Loc: S.W. Pennsylvania
My first "real" camera was a Pentax K1000 that my mother bought me for my 18th birthday. (1981) When the light meter started sticking and then the light seals were going all gooey (2007) I bought a Kodak 6.1 mp point & shoot with a 10x zoom. At first I really liked that little camera, but after a while I started to become frustrated with the lack of control I had over the pictures and the shutter delay when shooting things in motion so I saved for about 3mos. to buy a Nikon D90 which served me well for 11years. Then looking for better low-light performance I bought a D750, and gave the D90 to a neighbor girl with a serious interest in photography. Then I wanted more speed for wildlife so I got a D500 which I use along with the D750...Sometimes I think about up-grading again, but I'm not sure that I would really gain anything. I also have a couple Nikon film cameras (FG, and an FM2) that play with occasionally.
Nov 24, 2023 06:21:36 #
In 1962, my dad drove to Daytona Beach from Rochester in our green Volkswagen Beetle with my brother and I, to pick up my grandparents who were wintering there. I was 9, and remember clearly stopping at Okefenokee Swamp, where my dad gave me a Kodak Instamatic Brownie. I let my brother take a picture of a turkey. The turkey fanned his tail and I told my brother to take the photo, but he waited until the tail went back down. I still remember being angry at him for "missing the moment", but he was clueless, thought he was just supposed to get a photo of the turkey. Didn't know it then, but there was an ingrained sense of timing and composition, even at that age.
Nov 24, 2023 06:24:18 #
Don't laugh my very first camera was a Mickey Mouse camera...
The nose was the lens, between the ears was a rangefinder, and it took 126 cartridge film. Flash cubes clicked on the top of the head for 4 shots per cube. I don't recall if it was a Christmas or birthday gift. I was maybe 9 years old in the 1970s in NYC.
The nose was the lens, between the ears was a rangefinder, and it took 126 cartridge film. Flash cubes clicked on the top of the head for 4 shots per cube. I don't recall if it was a Christmas or birthday gift. I was maybe 9 years old in the 1970s in NYC.
Nov 24, 2023 06:47:41 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
SteveW8703 wrote:
I'm old lol, I started in high school back in 1977 work with film and only B&W. I still have all my work. My camera back then was Minolta 101. Then moved to Canon A1. I was a lucky student, my dad was a photographer with a dark room in the garage. I sometimes finish my HS projects at home. I did take up digital photography right way. I'd love to read other members history in photography
The year was 1957, I was 7, our basement in Sharon Pa. My older brother had a dark room in the old coal seller. He allowed me to hang with him there and watch him develop images. I was hooked.
That Christmas my father bought me a Kodak Brownie Starmite Camera kit. I would get B&W film and my brother taught me to develop and print my own film in his darkroom. For a boy of 7 I felt I had arrived.
Fast forward 17 years and I was now working part time for Nikon, going to college, and doing wedding photography on the weekends, a very short stint with National Geographic, then United Press International, more wedding photography, got married, got a job teaching, averaged 20-45 weddings a year, had children, retired from wedding photography after 40 years, retired from education as a Superintendent of Schools. Now fully retired and still shooting. LIFE HAS BEEN GOOD and just keeps on giving.
Nov 24, 2023 06:49:40 #
Started in 1976 in High School with a German made rangefinder my Grandfather gave me. During the summer of 1977 I cut laws to purchase a Minolta XG-7. Introduced a classmate to film photography who then went on to his own photography business. After retirement he got me into the digital world and still shooting. Occasionally fill in as a second shooter for him still.
Nov 24, 2023 07:02:45 #
Chemwood
Loc: UK
My start was in the back streets of Liverpool with a Voightlander Superb finding the kids running up to me demanding "take me photo mister" . I was 18 and the year was 1958.
Nov 24, 2023 07:19:10 #
Warhorse
Loc: SE Michigan
My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic my parents bought for me in about 1963 when I was nine years old. After a short while, it was made clear to me that photography as a hobby was for people who had more money than we did. They stopped buying me film except for the holidays and special occasions. I lost interest in photography by the time I was eleven. In 1975 I picked up a Minolta 110 film camera after I graduated Marine Corps basic training to get pictures of what I was seeing and doing while stationed at Camp Pendleton in California. In 1977 while onboard the LPH New Orleans in the far east, a friend of mine was interested in selling his Yashica 35mm SLR to upgrade to a better camera, his price was right, so I bought it. I soon realized that I wanted to get and play with different lens and would benefit from a better camera. I sold that camera for what I paid for it and bought a Canon AE-1 at the base exchange on Okinawa. After taking a few classes on base, I decided another upgrade would be best if I wanted to improve my photography, so a Canon F1 was soon put on layaway at the exchange. I got out of the Marines in 1979 after just one hitch, continued to shoot with that F1 till it was stolen out of my car in about 1983, my homeowners insurance replaced the whole kit with an F1n. Went to work at a natural gas utility in 1986, by 2000 they provided me with various point and shoot digital camera's over the years to document projects that I worked on. I went digital with my personal photography by purchasing a Nikon D3200, followed by a D5600, then added a D500. I am currently still shooting with the D5600, and D500, recently added a Sony HX-99 point and shoot take along when on vacations when I don't want to bother with lugging the DSLR's around.
Nov 24, 2023 07:53:03 #
SteveW8703 wrote:
I'm old lol, I started in high school back in 1977 work with film and only B&W. I still have all my work. My camera back then was Minolta 101. Then moved to Canon A1. I was a lucky student, my dad was a photographer with a dark room in the garage. I sometimes finish my HS projects at home. I did take up digital photography right way. I'd love to read other members history in photography
My sister gave me her Kodak Brownie Hawkeye.
Then some instamatics and then a SLR lastly digital camera.
Nov 24, 2023 07:56:41 #
In 1956, at 9 years old, my class took a school trip to West Point. My dad gave me his Kodak box camera loaded with a black and white film roll to take some pictures of the trip. I was hooked on photography from then on, and loved using the camera during the 50's. I am now 76 and have had a load of film, and now, digital camera equipment over the past 50+ years. I have collected old camera equipment and they are on display in my dining room, including the original Kodak box camera from 1956.
Nov 24, 2023 08:31:24 #
How I started as a photographer
When I was around 13 years of age in 1949 (yes I am that old) my dad gave me a simple and cheap camera that took, I believe, 12 postage stamp size black and white photos. I took 12 pictures of black and white cows which dad proclaimed were the best damned photos of cows he had ever seen! I was hooked.
Serious photography began with slides taken during a 3 year tour of duty in the US Navy, which included voyages to the North Atlantic and a trip to Paris. What great times for an 18 year old kid.
Employment as an engineer for IBM and Grumman Aircraft afforded me business trips to England and Italy, and vacations during and after retirement allowed me to take leisurely trips to, Italy, Greece, Ireland, France, Alaska, the Scandinavian countries, the Mediterranean and Caribbean, China and Tibet, the Dalmatian Coast, Turkey and other places my 87 year old brain has hidden from memory.
I still shoot birds in Florida with my 600mm zoom, and intend to continue shooting until I get old!
When I was around 13 years of age in 1949 (yes I am that old) my dad gave me a simple and cheap camera that took, I believe, 12 postage stamp size black and white photos. I took 12 pictures of black and white cows which dad proclaimed were the best damned photos of cows he had ever seen! I was hooked.
Serious photography began with slides taken during a 3 year tour of duty in the US Navy, which included voyages to the North Atlantic and a trip to Paris. What great times for an 18 year old kid.
Employment as an engineer for IBM and Grumman Aircraft afforded me business trips to England and Italy, and vacations during and after retirement allowed me to take leisurely trips to, Italy, Greece, Ireland, France, Alaska, the Scandinavian countries, the Mediterranean and Caribbean, China and Tibet, the Dalmatian Coast, Turkey and other places my 87 year old brain has hidden from memory.
I still shoot birds in Florida with my 600mm zoom, and intend to continue shooting until I get old!
Nov 24, 2023 08:33:19 #
polyman6
Loc: Chatham Ontario
SteveW8703 wrote:
I'm old lol, I started in high school back in 1977 work with film and only B&W. I still have all my work. My camera back then was Minolta 101. Then moved to Canon A1. I was a lucky student, my dad was a photographer with a dark room in the garage. I sometimes finish my HS projects at home. I did take up digital photography right way. I'd love to read other members history in photography
1958 My 7th Birthday, Grandpa gave me his Wembley Sport 120 Roll film camera. That started me off on the photography trip that's lasted a lifetime, thanks gramps.
Nov 24, 2023 08:35:02 #
How I started as a photographer
When I was around 13 years of age in 1949 (yes I am that old) my dad gave me a simple and cheap camera that took, I believe, 12 postage stamp size black and white photos. I took 12 pictures of black and white cows which dad proclaimed were the best damned photos of cows he had ever seen! I was hooked.
Serious photography began with slides taken during a 3 year tour of duty in the US Navy, which included voyages to the North Atlantic and a trip to Paris. What great times for an 18 year old kid.
Employment as an engineer for IBM and Grumman Aircraft afforded me business trips to England and Italy, and vacations during and after retirement allowed me to take leisurely trips to, Italy, Greece, Ireland, France, Alaska, the Scandinavian countries, the Mediterranean and Caribbean, China and Tibet, the Dalmatian Coast, Turkey and other places my 87 year old brain has hidden from memory.
I still shoot birds in Florida with my 600mm zoom, and intend to continue shooting until I get old!
When I was around 13 years of age in 1949 (yes I am that old) my dad gave me a simple and cheap camera that took, I believe, 12 postage stamp size black and white photos. I took 12 pictures of black and white cows which dad proclaimed were the best damned photos of cows he had ever seen! I was hooked.
Serious photography began with slides taken during a 3 year tour of duty in the US Navy, which included voyages to the North Atlantic and a trip to Paris. What great times for an 18 year old kid.
Employment as an engineer for IBM and Grumman Aircraft afforded me business trips to England and Italy, and vacations during and after retirement allowed me to take leisurely trips to, Italy, Greece, Ireland, France, Alaska, the Scandinavian countries, the Mediterranean and Caribbean, China and Tibet, the Dalmatian Coast, Turkey and other places my 87 year old brain has hidden from memory.
I still shoot birds in Florida with my 600mm zoom, and intend to continue shooting until I get old!
Nov 24, 2023 08:39:51 #
How I started as a photographer
When I was around 13 years of age in 1949 (yes I am that old) my dad gave me a simple and cheap camera that took, I believe, 12 postage stamp size black and white photos. I took 12 pictures of black and white cows which dad proclaimed were the best damned photos of cows he had ever seen! I was hooked.
Serious photography began with slides taken during a 3 year tour of duty in the US Navy, which included voyages to the North Atlantic and a trip to Paris. What great times for an 18 year old kid.
Employment as an engineer for IBM and Grumman Aircraft afforded me business trips to England and Italy, and vacations during and after retirement allowed me to take leisurely trips to, Italy, Greece, Ireland, France, Alaska, the Scandinavian countries, the Mediterranean and Caribbean, China and Tibet, the Dalmatian Coast, Turkey and other places my 87 year old brain has hidden from memory.
I still shoot birds in Florida with my 600mm zoom, and intend to continue shooting until I get old!
When I was around 13 years of age in 1949 (yes I am that old) my dad gave me a simple and cheap camera that took, I believe, 12 postage stamp size black and white photos. I took 12 pictures of black and white cows which dad proclaimed were the best damned photos of cows he had ever seen! I was hooked.
Serious photography began with slides taken during a 3 year tour of duty in the US Navy, which included voyages to the North Atlantic and a trip to Paris. What great times for an 18 year old kid.
Employment as an engineer for IBM and Grumman Aircraft afforded me business trips to England and Italy, and vacations during and after retirement allowed me to take leisurely trips to, Italy, Greece, Ireland, France, Alaska, the Scandinavian countries, the Mediterranean and Caribbean, China and Tibet, the Dalmatian Coast, Turkey and other places my 87 year old brain has hidden from memory.
I still shoot birds in Florida with my 600mm zoom, and intend to continue shooting until I get old!
Nov 24, 2023 08:40:39 #
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