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 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, andn 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.
Currently I use Canon EOS 20D camera with several lenses. 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 I think I will replace with EF-S 60mm macro lens soon. I don't have a flash unit for now, Speedlite 420 went away with 10D. Probably I'll get 580EX tho. Well, that's pretty much it. I'll write up short reviews later.