Weekly Poll: Did you start with digital or film?

[Nicole]

This week, I'm curious about how people started out. Did you start out with a digital camera? Or do you have a background in film? If you've used both, which do you prefer and why? Or maybe tell us a little about how you started out. I'm sure lots of people have some good stories about their first cameras

[falafelicious]

Originally Posted by Nicole

This week, I'm curious about how people started out. Did you start out with a digital camera? Or do you have a background in film? If you've used both, which do you prefer and why? Or maybe tell us a little about how you started out. I'm sure lots of people have some good stories about their first cameras

Well I "started" as a kid with those disposable film cameras you get at the checkout stands in grocery stores but I don't know if I'd really call what I was doing photography. Really it was just a way of remembering people, places, things.

My actual interest in photographs as art didn't begin until just a couple years ago and that was with a digital camera. I've never developed anything in a darkroom or even changed a roll of film. So I'm going to say digital.

[Tajemi]

Started properly with a Minolta SLR but I really didn't know how to use it, I am sure I would get better use out of it now but film and processing is just too expensive for the amount of shots I take.

Digital allows learning on the spot you don't have to think back to what setting you had your camera on, they allow lots of mistakes to be made with little cost (the biggest cost I suppose is time ).

Love digital!!

[Alex168]

I started out with film an old ass Minolta as well! with a prime hehe manual focus got some good shots tho

but loving te digital as well

[reyjinn]

Huh. Only realized after I voted that the first camera that I owned personally was actually a film camera. But I still feel like I didn't start in photography until I got my first digital.

[ainariel]

A few years ago, I found this really old film SLR camera in our attic and discovered that it still worked so I played around with that for a while. But I was already using digital when my real interest began.

[Nu2This]

I started when I was a kid about 8 with a Brownie Holiday film camera! I loved it and took quite a few pictures - where they all are now I'm not sure. I have only 2 that I'm pretty sure I took with it.

My dad was always taking pictures, always had an slr camera and even had a very old Zeiss Ikonta (that I now have ) and did his own developing so I guess I got hooked on the love of photography at a young age. After a few film cameras, an slr and now a digital p&s - I'm waiting to afford a dslr. I can't wait!

Although I love digital now for many reasons, I have to say that the anticipation of getting those developed pictures back was very exciting for me.

[Ilyanep]

Used to have a film P&S when I was like 9, but my first camera that I had where I actually did photography not snapshots was my Nikon D50, which I still have.

I now have some experience with film after taking this weeklong class at my school, however.

[ding]

My first cameras were film, but I was a kid just shooting on family vacations. I didn't consider photography as a hobby until well into digitals, probably not even until I had my first dSLR. I shoot some with a film SLR now, but didn't acquire it until after I'd been shooting digital.

[kirbinster]

I started lots of years ago with B&W 35mm film and had my own darkroom. Somehow got away from photography for many years and then had a few digital P&S cameras to take pictures of the kids with. Then last June I got my first Digital SLR.