Weekly Poll: Did you start with digital or film?

[Mandy73]

I started off properly when I was about 13 with a very old Kodak film camera of my Granddads, with a fixed lens that nobody else wanted to use because they couldn't get any descent photos with it!

I loved it, it was a really simple easy to use little camera.

[Up North Photos]

It was one day in the 60's when I found my mom's Kodak camera and used it to shoot a picture of my younger sister sidewalk surfing on a homemade skateboard that I made from an old pair of shoe skates. Those were the day's my friends. I wish I had the photo for show an tell.

[dmvp]

I started with a Kodak Disc camera then moved to a Canon Snappy when that one broke. That's when I was in grade school. (late 70's early 80's) I took pictures of my cat, my goldfish, stuff like that. Then in the late 80's I started taking pictures with my husbands Minolta SLR and fell in love. I just loved taking nature pictures, but being in college really didn't want to experiment too much because it was just too expensive. (I also had a Polaroid at the time)

My eyes started to get bad and I moved up to an Autofocus Minolta SLR which was awesome. You could buy chips for it that added filter-type effects. Very cool. This was in like 1994.

My first digital was in 2003 with the Sony Cybershot DSC-F717. Awesome camera. Then I was hungry for a Digital SLR. I loved macro shots and the tele of the Sony, but I was sick and tired of the slowness. So, I bought my Nikon D40 in February of last year.

I really like digital more than film. I like the chance to try new things and not worry about it costing more money. I like being able to share a picture really quickly by burning a CD or e-mailing it. I like being able to snap the shot and then look at it instantly. I think it's so funny how the kids of today yell, "Let me see! Let me see!", as soon as you take the picture. They have no idea how long we'd wait and wait for our parents/selves to fill the whole roll of film, get to the store, drop it off, wait for days, drive back to the store, and then finally get to see if they turned out or not! Thank God for digital!

[mpsiaki]

Film for me.

[crazyfor3d]

I start take photo about seventeen years ago. I think that time only film camera was available. I used a Nikon FM2 with 35mm lens at that time. After few years I put that down for some reasons. Until now, I come back because of the temptation of digital dslr. Any how keep my story short. I still have my FM2 but hardly ever used it. Now I got my canon 40D and three lens.