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I started in the mid 90's with a (HOT NEON pink) disposable 35mm film point and shoot that my mother bought for me from a convenient store... By this point, I had always admired my grandfather's Nikkormat SLR, his fully manual lenses, and had set a goal that one day, I'd graduate to a real camera! As I taught myself through trial and error, and lots of experimenting and pocket money spent on film and processing (by working in the school kitchen), I slowly graduated to an F90X, and soon F100 in '99.
Went digital with an Olympus super-zoom enthusiasts' camera in high school, then eventually got a D200 in college. Still loved working in the darkroom, developing and printing everything I shot (B&W only)... but loved digital for all the timely projects (I shot for the university paper as well). Towards the end of my college days, got a D2H and was over the moon about it's "low light" capabilities, and how it allowed me to shoot more sports and PJ work more easily, with just "some" sacrifice in color and noise! All the while, still hanging on to my F100, Seagull TLRs, and even acquired some Hasselblad gear (with my hard earned money as a college kid) from some fellow forum members when they were converting their studios to digital!
The D2H eventually gave way to the D3 after a long struggle of justifying my spendings, just before the announcement of the D3s/D3x (ouch). A couple of years later, got a D90 as a second body as well as a "lossless 1.5x teleconverter" and now have a D800E & D7100, which I love!
It's wonderful to see how technology has progressed and how it has changed the way people teach and learn photography as well!
It's even crazier that we use our smartphones so much as compact cameras to supplement (or to some people, as their main) our bigger cameras, and how competent they have become. I just upgraded to an iPhone 6+ and wow.... having that type of IQ in a phone-camera that (arguably) fits inside your pant pocket is just amazing - and to think its IQ is blowing all those "early-digital" BIG cameras, form just a few years ago, out of the water. (of course, no substitute for a real DSLR tho.)
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