Knew there was something relatively popular I'd missed out

As there's very little photography news to argue about () over the New Year I thought I'd start one of these. One thing which is unusual about photography forums is the range of age groups represented, so I was wondering how people got started. Basically, what was the first camera that you owned (rather than being allowed to press the magic button on a parent's camera)? I hope I've got most of the possible categories but I'm not terribly familiar with the pre-35mm film formats so I've probably missed something!

That one does indeed look quite tasty. I'll check out the dimensions on it (I don't want it to be TOO huge as I do travel on public transport) but £50 for that looks like a much better deal than £80 for the 300!

EDIT: On examination the 400 seems a tad too big (mainly in front-to-back breadth) for what I'll be doing with it. If only there was somewhere in the UK selling reasonably-priced camera inserts for existing bags, then I could just stick my stuff into a Timbuk2 and be done with it.

Which means that Pentax has a substantially bigger share of the DSLR market than Apple has of the computer market (4.5% according to this article). Nobody would dream of calling Apple 'dead' or 'an irrelevance'!

When I got my K20D earlier this year I got a Crumper Muffin Top 4000, on the basis that this would be able to hold the camera, kit lens, and 'kit telezoom'. It does, although only just and the kit lens has to be mounted on the camera for it all to go in.

The catch is that I now have a flashgun and a 100mm macro, which couldn't fit even if they were in a cooperative mood. After some reading I'm thinking of getting a Lowepro Stealth Reporter 300AW, on the basis that this should hold my current kit AND hopefully the next lens or two. Can anyone who has one of these let me know whether it will fit the requisite amount of stuff? I'd also welcome suggestions for reasonably-priced alternatives - I have a Timbuk2 Medium messenger bag as well so anything up to the size of that would be fine.

Assuming of course that you have an address in the Republic to have the stuff sent to and then retrieve it from.

Planning to do a 365. Assuming I remember to start on Friday morning of course!

Their legal team are probably good enough to tell them about the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly but not good enough to be aware that those institutions have sod all to do with the VAT/import tax rates

I just buy Sandisk Extreme IIIs and forget all about the technicalities - has done me alright so far

They have a new warehouse in Milton Keynes. Don't quote me on this, but I suspect the Jersey warehouse will in future only be used for items which are under the VAT-free amount (£18 if I recall correctly).