How did you get into photography?

For Xmas one year in the seventies I got a box set of branded toys based around The Professionals TV show. The TV show was about two government agents solving crime. Along with plastic handcuffs and cap gun there was a 35mm camera (for surveillance). Generally with a camera during daylight outside you can just point it and take a photo, with modern digital cameras you can just set it to auto and point it anywhere and at anytime and it'll take a perfect photo. If you want to learn all the technical ins and outs of exposure and that buy a basic 1960s 35mm SLR film camera, because lets face it with a modern digital you just don't need to know anymore. At best on a digital you'd want to use Aperture Priority to control your depth of field but that's about it.