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