Kodak Instamatic (the kind that used 126 film, not the 110) from the age of six or seven, in the early 70's
Praktica Nova B with 50mm f/2.8 Meyer and a Helios 135mm and a 2× converter, this was my Dad's camera passed down to me at about the age of 10 or so. I also started in the darkroom at the same time. Also a Eumig Standard 8 cine camera used with Philips Cassette recorder for "sound", also handed down from Dad.
I shot with the above until I got a brand new Pentax ME Super the christmas of 1980. Continued working the darkroom, eventually getting to the stage of developing my own E6 slide film, and even printing Cibachrome's from them. Over the years I also acquired some Chinon and Ricoh K mount bodies.
2005 Canon EOS 300D kit with grip and a couple of lenses, as there was just no real option for digital in the K mount back then.
2012 20D followed by a 50D in 2014, and that is it for bodies. Being disabled, and unable to work regular hours, I'm pretty limited on spending money on hobbies. So both of the last two bodies were secondhand, and I only got the 20D as the AF packed up on the 300D, and I had shot that for the best part of three years as an MF only camera. It still took good pictures if you shot RAW used ETTR and a modern RAW converter.
Alan
