The first sign you might be into photography?

[scrapin_frame]

It's a simple thing, just tell me what was your first experience in life with a camera.

Mine:

I was 4 years old. My mother was preparing to go to a wedding. She asked me to take her bag to the car. In that bag was her camera. I took the bag to the car, pulled the camera out, sat on my big wheel and proceeded to snap off every pic on the roll of film.
My mother arrived at the wedding, pulled her camera out and tried to take a picture, finding that the roll was spent. She swore she had put a new roll in before she left. The following week she developed the film and discovered my little photoshoot. I had pointed the camera at myself and clicked til my heart's content.
I may very well have been the creator of the myspace style picture ;)

So lets hear your stories.

[jgrussell]

My grandmother gave me a Brownie. I took it outside, found my younger brother playing cops and robbers with my younger sister and a neighbor... and was hooked.

[scrapin_frame]

My grandmother gave me a Brownie. I took it outside, found my younger brother playing cops and robbers with my younger sister and a neighbor... and was hooked.


not sure what that has to do with photography

[sheawyatt]

not sure what that has to do with photography

A Brownie = camera made by Kodak back in the day

A brownie = delicious chocolate treat

jgrussell is referring to the former.


My dad gave let me play with his old Pentax SLR when I was 12...the next christmas he got me my own SLR and a 50mm lens. Haven't looked back since.

[20droger]

not sure what that has to do with photography

A Brownie = camera made by Kodak back in the day

A brownie = delicious chocolate treat

jgrussell is referring to the former.


My dad gave let me play with his old Pentax SLR when I was 12...the next christmas he got me my own SLR and a 50mm lens. Haven't looked back since.
Scrapin_frame, hunt up PhotosGuy's avatar. It's a Brownie.


And Sheawyatt, you forgot "A Brownie = a fledgling Girl Scout."

My first camera was an oatmeal-box pinhole camera, made as a school science-fair project. My mother had a Brownie that I was not allowed to touch.

[jgrussell]

not sure what that has to do with photographySorry I should have made the Brownie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_%28camera%29) (note the capital letter) a hotlink (as it is now) for those infants who are too young to have ever heard of it.

[scrapin_frame]

Sorry I should have made the Brownie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_%28camera%29) (note the capital letter) a hotlink (as it is now) for those infants who are too young to have ever heard of it.

No need to apologize. I feel like I have learned something today. That's pretty awesome. Don't supposed you still have it?

[DAMphyne]

you can buy them every day on the goodwill auction,
here's one http://www.shopgoodwill.com/auctions/Kodak-Brownie-Hawkeye-4645510.html
not JGR's of course.

[yuribox]

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I was in video game and my wife told me to go take some pictures. She bought me Pentax K10D and I got hooked since.
My brownie. :lol:

[jgrussell]

Don't supposed you still have it?I only wish. Not so much because of the camera, but because of the link with my grandmother, who died in 1995 at the age of 97.