I started taking photographs at age 4 using my uncle's large-format cameras, mainly on 16 ISO ex-RAAF black and white stock left over from WWII. That teaches you how to hand-hold steadily. I was 12 when i got my first camera and by that time was using Kodachrome 64. The digital revolution hit me in 2003 when I bought a Sony Mavica CD-4, with my 1000+ frames per year habit, I'd paid for it in saved processing costs within 3 months.

I'm a bit of a purist, my photographs are almost invariably cropped in the camera rather than Photoshopped and any manipulation is limited to the things I could do with an enlarger on real photographic paper.