I started out in 1945 with a hand-me-down Box Brownie No.2 roll-film camera. My first "proper" camera  was a wood-and-leather Victorian glass plate apparatus, complete with wooden tripod, picked up in a junk shop for thirty shillings (£1.50) - a small fortune then to an impecunious 15-year-old schoolboy! Over the years I have gone through many cameras of different formats - as a boy I even experimented with a pinhole camera made out of a cardboard shoe-box.

I currently use a Fuji S9500   - a quality digital camera with a 28-130 mm  zoom lens. Its 9 megapixels make for pin-sharp enlargements and its wide range of features gives a choice between fully automatic shooting and advanced manual photography, of subjects as close as 1 cm. from the lens. TrustedReviews.co.uk gave this camera an almost unheard-of 10 out of 10 in all departments.