I started out with a little Hanimex camera when I was a kid, bought with money I saved up for with my pocket money! I think it might have cost £35? Then I stopped taking photo's for quite a few years before buying a Canon APS film camera. I loved the way you could change the aspic ratio but hated the fact I was disappointed with a lot of photo's when they came back from the developers.

So back in 2004 I bough a little fixed lens Canon Ixus digital camera. It only had 4 megapixels but was tiny and re-sparked my interest because I could take it everywhere without a second thought to it's size and weight. I think it might have been the smallest digital camera on the market at the time? It also got me into macro.

But, of course, it was limiting and I started to think I wanted more control over my photo's, so at the end of 2009 I bought a Panasonic LX3, which I still have. Great little camera, the only problem is the extra control it offered only served to prove I wanted more! I also found that low light, a quicker shutter speed and more zoom range would be beneficial.

Which brings me up to date and the purchase of my first SLR in June 2011 - a Pentax K-5