Camera's were heavy.

Weight /wat/ n.1:the force with which a body is attracted toward the earth or a celestial body by gravitation and which is equal to the product of the mass and the local gravitational acceleration. 2:the relative importance or authority accorded something

I started taking photographs as a child when my parents gave me their old photo equipment.

Boom... just like that I had a beaten up old camera with lots of knobs, lenses, buttons and stuff and only a vague idea how any of it works? We bought film shot it & paid for processing (expensive hobby, I don't think they considered that part).

My photos were blurry, dark, and poorly conceived. They seemed to indicate that this photo thing is a-lot harder than it looks so I started again and again and again...
I started with the things around me, this right here, its all we have.

Soon I discovered it’s more than enough.