Started out in the early 60's taking animal tracks for a Scouting assignment. Anyone still remember the little flash bulbs? They were shaped like today's high intensity lamps. Definitely film, probably 110.
Father-in-law gave us (me) his old Konica SLR with a very heavy zoom lens. Probably in the 70's.
Bought my first digital camera this last January. Like the gratification of pulling the pictures into the computer without the 3 day turn-around for film processing.