Did you start photography using film?

ubookoo wrote: Yep! Started in high school with film and developing tanks. I can still remember the smell of the chemicals!

You can come and have a last sniff before I discard my last chemicals next weekend. Unused for more than 5 years.

C'mon Bob, Kelly's not that old! LOL Actually if you look at the Eastman House site they do workshops on antique processes, there are still photographers working in many alternate processes.

Hassner how can a photographer think about dumping something Leitz?! I feel like Kelly's sad face that he posted at the thought! Seriously though I don't know what's in your area and maybe some darkroom items wouldn't sell well but seems like someone would want some of it and get some use out of it. Hope you can find a use for it (a school maybe? art center?).

Yes, but wasn't serious till digital. 

Started B&W in 1973 for my first year Photography Class. My Junior year. Advanced Photography in 74 my Senior Year. Used my stepdads old Argus Rangefinder. School went to color the year after I graduated. Got out of photography pretty much until a few years ago. Now have my Sony A7R and using it as much as I can the way I did film. I try not to take too many photos. I want to do B/W again but with digital. I like digital. I may try my old Pentax again with film in B/W. 

Pete

Pics or its all a fantasy. My filmers.......

I started in 67" with a 120 camera my grandfather gave me. So not quite as old as Kelly, and Bob shooting tin types. 

effron wrote: Pics or its all a fantasy. My filmers.......

Now that's a collection!  How many of those do you still use?

As for me... I grew up in a rather poor household and my first camera I paid $5 for at garage sale when I was 13 years old.  I remember digging through this families garage sale items and not finding anything I really wanted, well let me clarify: anything I could afford, because I only had just over $6 on me.  When I saw the camera in a 5 gallon bucket along with a couple old books, I was sporting an enthusiastic grin when they told me I could have it for $5!  I was so excited that I had camera, however that serendipitous moment ended when I dropped the camera off at camera shop to get serviced and was told it would cost me $130 to get the camera repaired too working condition.  My only source of income at the time was two lawns I was mowing each week.  Mr.  Brown for $5 and Mr. & Mrs. Achenback who had a cabin on the lake they stayed at for 3 months out of the summer who paid me a $20 each time I mowed their lawn.  Technically I was only making $15 profit per week, because that summer I had bought a super old 5hp riding lawn mower from Mr. Brown for $40 that he was deducting $5 per week from the $40 cost.  Then each Saturday I used just about $5 worth of gas and oil to mow both their lawns and driving my mower too and from my home (I grew up WAY in the country).  So that $130 cost to repair that camera would have taken over 8 months to pay for! 

My next camera wasn't till a couple years later I received for Christmas.  It was a Nikon RF2.  Thanks Santa!  It wasn't till 6 years ago I really got into photography with Nikon D90 as my first DSLR. 

Alex wrote: As for me... I grew up in a rather poor household and my first camera I paid $5 for at garage sale when I was 13 years old.  I remember digging through this families garage sale items and not finding anything I really wanted, well let me clarify: anything I could afford, because I only had just over $6 on me.  When I saw the camera in a 5 gallon bucket along with a couple old books, I was sporting an enthusiastic grin when they told me I could have it for $5!  I was so excited that I had camera, however that serendipitous moment ended when I dropped the camera off at camera shop to get serviced and was told it would cost me $130 to get the camera repaired too working condition.  My only source of income at the time was two lawns I was mowing each week.  Mr.  Brown for $5 and Mr. & Mrs. Achenback who had a cabin on the lake they stayed at for 3 months out of the summer who paid me a $20 each time I mowed their lawn.  Technically I was only making $15 profit per week, because that summer I had bought a super old 5hp riding lawn mower from Mr. Brown for $40 that he was deducting $5 per week from the $40 cost.  Then each Saturday I used just about $5 worth of gas and oil to mow both their lawns and driving my mower too and from my home (I grew up WAY in the country).  So that $130 cost to repair that camera would have taken over 8 months to pay for! 

My next camera wasn't till a couple years later I received for Christmas.  It was a Nikon RF2.  Thanks Santa!  It wasn't till 6 years ago I really got into photography with Nikon D90 as my first DSLR. 

As for me...

Technically yes. In the 1980s and 90s we used film cameras.  Mainly point and shoot cameras and such.  
If you're talking being really into photography, then no, I started with Digital.

Alex wrote:

effron wrote: Pics or its all a fantasy. My filmers.......

Now that's a collection!  How many of those do you still use?

They all are in good condition, and I have the F100 loaded with film, but I rarely use it......

Film all the way for me when I started in the 80's with an old range finder...Here is a walk down memory lane for me:

Pentax p30n  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pentax_products#P_series
Minolta 7xi & Minolta 9xi  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minolta_9xi
Minolta 7000i  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minolta_7000i
Bronica SQ 6x6 & Bronica ETRSi 645  camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Zenza_Bronica_ETR
5x4inch large format studio camara (At college)  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sinar_F_-_vis%C3%A9e.jpg
Canon EOS 5  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EOS_5
Mamyia rz67  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamiya_RZ67
Nikon F4s  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_F4
Nikon FM2  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_FM2
Nikon F5  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_F5
Nikonos  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikonos
Nikon D1 & D1x  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_D1
Nikon D2x  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIKON_D2X
Nikon D3  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_D3
Fuji s2  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuji_S2
Nikonos  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikonos  

Started in the 70s with a Minolta XG-9 and later had a Canon AE-1 Program. Cokin filter system and a bag full of goodies. Basement darkroom setup, too, with a Vivitar V1-A enlarger and a homemeade digital timer. (I'm an electronics nut.)  I still have all my B&W negatives, contact sheets and every bit of E6 film I developed.

Started the digital experience with an Olympus E10 when it was still a $600 camera (used).

1968 with a Zorki 4k rangefinder, those were the days, I loved the darkroom experience as well, it was so magical watching those prints appear.
digital for me was with a Nikon D70 can't remember the year, but I swore blind I would never go digital for many years.