How old were you when you took your first shot?

Having a little fun, how old were you when you took your first photo?


18 for me

I took my first shoot when I was 8 years old. I still remember that a cameraman came to our village, he took my photos and gave to my parents in hard form. It was just about before school time. I miss thise days. 

Oh must have been 11 or 12 I think 

I was 9 and got a camera by mailing in cereal box tops.  

I was seven years old when I was given my first camera.

I was given a Kodak Brownie box camera by my Grandmother for my birthday. My dad knew she was getting it, so he bought me a basic 3 tray developing and contact printing set. With his help I was taking, developing, and printing my own B/W photos soon after.

He was also a photographer, though all he had was a camera, and I think my developing kit gift was as much for him as it was me. Soon after, he partitioned off a small room in the corner of our basement to use as a darkroom and we used it together. I didn't have an enlarger until many years later when I was married and my dad was long gone, but I still had all of this darkroom kit gift from him, plus a lot of additions, like the cannister film developer for 35 mm film still with me and in use, up until I went digital. I did have access to the darkroom and enlarger while in high school though in my Junior and Senior years. The teacher in charge of the darkroom liked my work and soon after he had me taking club and sports photos for the yearbook using the school's Graflex Press Camera. What a monster that thing was. It, a bag of flash bulbs and batteries, and a bag full of film cartridges was a full load for even this healthy teenager.

I had always hated dealing with the chemicals, and this hate of the chemicals helped convince me to go digital many years later in 1998 when it was first becoming available and more reasonably priced. From my best memory, I had owned 7 film cameras since that first Kodak camera, 1-2 at a time, before going digital, and I have never looked back. No more film cameras for me. I've owned 14 digital cameras since then, with 6 of them still with me.

Charley

14 I want to say.  My uncle had just bought a new Nikon SLR and allowed me to focus the camera and press the shutter.  It was a photo of my sister playing with a cooking set she had received.  

Early teens ; 

Was a hand-me-down Kodak Box Brownie , with the now obsolete size #127 (?) film (if memory is correct ).

26

I got my first PC a year before and I loved the concept of desktop images. At some point I realised that I don't have to limit myself to the images that came with the OS and since I like landscapes I got a camera and started shooting. Lived in Africa at the time so plenty of great landscapes all around. I still have that camera (a Kodak C703) and some of the old snaps from back then. Didn't have a clue about composition or exposure triangle or anything photography related, I just took snaps of what I saw. Now, 20 years later, I'm still shooting landscapes.

Hmm, good question.  Must have been 10 at the time.  My dad had bought a camera thinking he would start taking photos.  Funny story, he used it for a couple weeks and then that camera sat for a good 7-8 years before anyone would use it again.  

14 or so

First time? 6 years old.  First time had interest in photography?  14 years old

wow, good question.  I think I was 11.  Close to that

Agree, this seriously got me thinking this morning.  I would say 7 or 8.  It was a Polaroid camera

12 years old, 110 film camera 

About the same, 11 years old for the first click.  But I would have my own camera till 24 years old.