How old were you when you took your first shot?

10.

Didn't buy my first dslr until i was in my 20's.

Pretty sure I was around the same age, can't exactly remember.  But it wasn't till my late 20's I bought my first camera. 

14 or so

At the tender age of 17, I embarked on my photographic journey, capturing moments that unfolded before my lens. It was a pivotal moment in my life when the click of the shutter became a symphony of memories frozen in time. Each shot was not just a picture but a narrative, an art form that I embraced wholeheartedly. As I navigated through the intricacies of composition and lighting, my passion for photography blossomed.

You all have me hitting the pause button and thinking about this.  I want to say I was 10 or 11.  Actually I might have been younger.  My father had briefly gotten into photography, then sold his camera gear to his brother that wanted it. 

CharleyL wrote: 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

Belated Happy Birthday to your grandmother. Fascinating journey with photography! Started with a Kodak Brownie, dad's darkroom collaboration, and transitioned to digital in 1998. Hated chemicals, embraced digital, and now owned 14 digital cameras, sticking with 6. Great evolution!

I can't remember my age, however I still have the camera a early 1960's Pentax S3!  I must have been around 7 years old.  My uncle would years later give me the camera.  I still have it in storage somewhere.   

I took my first shot around 11 years old