robert_macdonald Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 Hi, Just a curiousity question,Im 18 and I started about two months ago on a Rolleiflex Automat X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen hazelton Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 I started when I was 12 or so- an old Kodak TLR, fixed lens, fixed exposure, red-window winding, 620 film. I still have it- it has held its value well (still worthless). But then when I was 18 or so, I graduated to the finer quality of 110. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_goldfarb Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 I was 23 or thereabouts when I got a Pentacon 6 system while studying in Eastern Europe. I'd been shooting 35mm since I was ten or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg_smith4 Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 I got my Bronica SQ-a for my 15th birthday. Beat that ; ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classcamera Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 When I was but a wee tyke of eight,my father gave me his well used Brownie 127 TLR, which made 12 exposures 4x4 on 127 film. Next, I started shooting a hand-me-down Yashica-Mat in high school, when I was 13. I shot hundreds of rolls of 120 before I ever picked up a 135 film camera. To this very day I shoot 25 rolls of 120 to every roll of 135. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
douglas_green1 Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 Well I was shooting in 6x9 format when I was just 6 years old. Of course, it was a Polaroid Swinger - A $19.95 gift from my Grandpa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 Eight - my first camera was a Brownie Hawkeye. Pretty soon afterward I was using a then-new Yashica Mat 124. But I took a long hiatus from medium format and only last year got into it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 About 17, in 1958, with a Yashica LM. I also use a Speed Graphic 4x5 Press Camera at that time as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikecat Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 Not until my 30's. Started with an old Yashica A and now with a Mamiya C330. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r s Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 In my 30's as well when I moved to MF and Hasselblad - and I'm loving it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly_flanigan1 Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 I started using MF with 4.5x6cm in 127 roll film; Verichrome Pan when in Kindergarden; at 6 years of age....The Kodak bakelite camera had an F11 lens. It got dropped several times; and the light seal of the grooves would leak light...Thus it had to be taped with "friction tape" on the 2 halves of the camera by my dad after loading; to kill off the light fogging. The light fogging would give a positive image in the underexposed parts of a negative; and thus would appear as a negative in the underexposed areas when contact printed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dale_dickerson2 Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 In 1965, at age six my father purchased a Diana camera for me to take to the New York Worlds Fair. I used color slide film at the fair. I still have them. That was in the days before the cult following of Diana camera by the arts department of college photography programs. My earliest memories include my Father using a Rollei. I still have his camera and it is still working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h._p. Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 We had a Brownie 127 when I was five or six and I probably took a couple of shots with that. My first serious MF shots were taken on a borrowed Hasselblad when I was eighteen. I didn't own a MF camera until I aquired an old Rollop a year or so later. Does anyone else remember the Rollop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt991 Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 I`d be about 14 (in 1949) when I was allowed to use my parents` Kodak "Autographic" folding camera. "Autographic" because it had a light-tight flap and metal stylus to title each neg. And yes, I rember the Rollop TLR. The only one I ever saw belonged to a fellow soldier when in Malaya (now West Malaysia)in the 50`s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografz Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 Late 20s, with a Hasselblad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwilburn Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 Around 12 with a Kodak 127 TLR. Around 16 with the high school's Yashica D. Picked up an Ikoflex II around 21 and a Rollei 3.5F around 24. Still have the Rollei. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_goodman1 Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 I was 7. Until the age of about 26, I used it exclusively, but seldom since then. For my style (habit?), 35mm simply suits me better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_coleman_smith Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 I'm 19 and i got my bronica ETRS around easter of this year. Couldn't afford a DSLR and there didn't seem to be any point upgrading to anythign else in the 35mm world. So i thought i'd try somethign new. And to be honest its excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry_zet Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 6 years - i got an old agfa folder from my grandfather. i still have this camera. years later i got my fathers exakta outfit - a IIa and a real, which i foolishly traded for a minolta srt 101 - its a fortune worth now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hclim Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 When I was a kid in the 60's my father had a Kodak something that loaded 120 film. I was always curious how light never seeped into the paper backing and into the negative. I don't remember using that camera but did use the Instamatic my father bought later on. Soon I was attracted to the 35mm SLR and thought that was the ultimate in photography. Last year I took up medium format, at 45. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbq Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 About 30, with a Lubitel 166. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_buck1 Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 I got you all beat: 4 years old with a Brownie, 120 film. My sister was 9 when we both got them as gifts from our father, who did his own processing at about age 12 in the late 19teens. I still have some of his prints made when he was in his teens but, alas, none that I made at 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_buck1 Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 I got you all beat: 4 years old with a Brownie, 120 film. My sister was 9 when we both got them as gifts from our father, who did his own processing at about age 12 in the late 19teens. I still have some of his prints made when he was in his teens but, alas, none that I made at 4. Make that: that I shot at 4 (I wasn't printing!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tito sobrinho Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 At 10y old (1947) borrowing my mother's Zeiss-Ikon Super Ikonta B, with uncoated lens. Later on, my father gave me a Yashicaflex-S (1956), the one with a large selenium meter. I have both. Nowadays, I use the Hasselblad and, sometimes a Super Ikonta C and or a Rolleiflex 2.8E. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the tightwad Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 Hmmmmm. It will be interesting to see how many responders post to thisthread that are under 25. My guess is that most "young" people will take up digital in place of medium format or even 35 mm. That does not bode well for the future of film......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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