Cute stories, I was older 12, and I used my allowance money to buy and process film, at the time it was the local Walgreens, I would either ride my bike or mom would take me, I was lucky I had a fancy AE-1 (two actually as my aunt had given me hers after finding out about my photographic interests). So one at my moms and one at my dads (divorced) though, it wasn't so much a limit of how many shots per week, as how long it would be till I could get a new roll. But it was more luxurious at this time since it was the 80's and you got 24-36 images, not just 8
I really only used color negative film as it was the cheapest and available at Walgreens and could be done in 1 hour

when I was 16 I shot one roll of APX100 that my school yearbook lady gave me, she gave me 2 rolls but I only shot one, I've still got the other one and I plan to shoot it soon at EI 50...
Anyway, I didn't have it as "rough" as you guys, 24 frames, one hour processing, split prism SLR, in camera TTL center weighted average meter, f/1.8 and whoa, B to 1/1000 shutter, I was a fancy lad!
~Stone
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