From The Beginning.

My very first camera was one my father gave me. It was handed down from his father. It was a box camera, one that took black & white 126 film. My first color film camera was a Vivitar 110 camera. I got my first 35 mm camera in high school, a Pentax K-1000. It was at this point I started considering myself a 'serious' photographer. I also began experiencing something which I wouldn't discover the name for until I was much older - GAS, or Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Thus began a lifelong struggle between GAS and MEW - My Empty Wallet.