I've started long ago with 35 mm film camera. B&W SLR camera! And I was messing with all that darkroom stuff, red lights, photo paper, chemicals and all that. Later I gave up, apparently comps were more important :) And finally both came together more or less. At least conveniently close enough.
For now my primary photography subjects are my own blades and firearms. Other than that I do love taking pix of my friends while partying. That's pretty much it. I don't do nature(unless some grass, tree or bush ends up in the background with the knife or a flashlight), or art, or anything else.
First digicam I've had was Olympus 340L I think. Was a pretty good one for its
time. Back then in 98-99. Over 1mpx resoultion, LCD and removable storage :) I think there's still a few pictures laying on my site taken with that first cam. DEP faq gifs
definitely were taken with that camera. In short, 340L made me happy for a while.
Untill, later on Casio QV-3000EX came out in march 2000. That was hi-res with 3.3 mpx cam, also it could use microdrive, which I got with it, 340mb in digicam, that seemed to be a
lot! Obviously I just had to have it. Especially in those times when the race for more mpx seemed to be the most important thing :)
Later on, I was using Sony cybershot 707 with 5mpx and 10x optical zoom along with Casio, and sony was clearly superior. It was frist time when I didn't take pix at full resolution all time. And then I went to DSLR world, which changed things dramatically. I got Canon EOS 10D in may 2003. That was totaly new experience and lots of learning too. Needless to say I fell into lens trap as well. I got one lens, then another, then another, then filters, then flash and so on. At least due to limited area of photography I didn't need extreme lenses, but apparently that's still to come. For a while I was fine with Canon EF 24-84mm, EF 50mm MAcro and Sigma 24mm wide angle lenses. But then in 2004 Canon had to release EOS 20D and I had to buy it, because it was much better for my uses. Especially with 5fps speed, which I didn't really need, but 0.2 wake up time was really useful, especially for those drunk parties.
I've used Canon EOS 20D camera with several lenses till the fall of 2008. For a while I've been debating EF vs. EF-S lenses but eventually decided to go with EF-S line. Since I don't consider lenses to be an investment for my grandchildren then why not to get the lens best optimized for my cam. So, for now I have EF-S 18-55mm, EF-S 17-85m IS, EF-S 10-22mm, Peleng Fisheye 8mm and old EF 50mm macro, which was replaced with EF-S 60mm macro lens, which inturn was replaced with MP-65E bazooka. External flash unit, Speedlite 420 went away with 10D. upgrade was 580EX tho. Well, that's pretty much it.
In 2008 I've picked up Canon EOS-50D. The latest and the greatest. Finally I felt Canon put something out that was well worth the upgrade from 20D. Main reason for me was live view andlarger LCD, both are very helpful for still photos of knives and other stuff I like to photograph. You'll find plenty of examples in the galleries on this site.I'll write up short review later.