An M series pentax SLR in the late 90's was my first

I've got a pretty funny story on this

I was about 7 years old and at a carnival fair with my mother. They had some type of game in which you had to throw balls at a target, and I won! ( ). So out of all the things I picked a very simple film camera (never used or had a camera before, it just looked cool) and I liked it so much that later on (~14?) I bought a point& shoot by Canon, and now have a Canon with lenses/filters and all that.

This post was edited by SeaBas on Jun 12 2010 04:28pm

whoa at age 7 that was pretty mature to get a film camera... usually kids would get like toys hah nice

Or it could be that he has very supportive and encouraging parents
I know a lot of parents wouldn't buy advanced toys like cameras to their 7yr old because they are too young to have expensive hobbies like photography

Haha trust me it's nothing advanced. It's pretty much the same as those throw-away film camera's, made out of cheap plastic etc. My mother had a camera though so I wanted one too of course

Didn't use it very much but just took pictures of the ducks in my backyard mostly haha. My first contact with camera's though!

This post was edited by SeaBas on Jun 13 2010 07:50am

Well at least she bought you a camera What I was trying to say is that I know some parents wouldn't even give their 7yr old a camera at all because they think kids can't really create art other than cute but crude drawings which I think is very ignorant because children are more imaginative than most adults who just grew up and became boring parents and workaholics lol.
btw I guess I am not the only one who bought a camera mainly to take pictures of animals

This post was edited by Futurama on Jun 13 2010 08:05am

canon powershot a550, if disposable camera doesent count

Nobody bought a camera for me @_@.

I won it at some game at the fair haha

Lucky you lol