In his fourth year of primary school he would often take a camera and follow behind his brother's back clicking away at the shutter, and then help develop the pictures by hand.
許淵富，民國廿一年出生於台南，小學四年級時就經常跟在哥哥背後提相機，按快門、翻洗照片，對攝影從小就有一層新奇的接觸。