How old are you?

[paulfish4570]

I still am 59 - for seven months ...

 

[zigzhang]

16. Do I qualify for the top 5 youngest rff members?

 

[Richard Berter]

I am 62 my minolta al-s I got when I was 16 I used today will be 46 an still working

 

[macfiend]

Old enough to know.
Young enough to learn.

 

[Alpacaman]

I hail from the fine crop of 1994.

 

[Brian Legge]

Caught the last month of 1979.

 

[caperunner]

Mumbledly mumble.. OR every day is a bonus.

 

[intense]

quarter of a century

 

[LKeithR]

Yup, I'm definitely one of the older ones here. But what wisdom I have to share--if only I could get someone to listen. I've been a shooter since the 60s, pretty consistently till the mid 80s when my family and business began to occupy all of my time. I drifted away from photography--except for P&S kind of stuff--till about 3 years ago when I bought a Pentax K10D. Since then I've accumulated way too many cameras and lenses. I love digital and have made the transition very well--for an old f*rt--but i also love to experiment. I have a number of older MF lenses for my SLRs and my favourite camera (at this moment) is probably my Leica Digilux 2.

My admission to this form is a Bessa L with a nice little 21/4 Colour Skopar. It froze up on me a few months ago and I've kept putting off sending it in for repair. A couple days ago I was browsing a thread on the Repair forum which mentioned the Bessa L shutter lockup issue and, after doing a little digging I found enough info to encourage me to go ahead and repair it myself. I just put it back together tonight and it now works like a charm. I also removed the rewind lever and filed off the shutter lock tab so now i don't have to unlock the shutter before taking a shot.

I was surprised by the poll results showing the number of younger people on this forum. I would have thought that most of the "youngsters" would be off playing with their hi-tech digital toys so I think it bodes very well for the "craft" of photography that so many of them choose to spend their time here. Very heartening...

 

[ashfaque]

27+

I don't remember if I've posted on this thread before. Sign of getting old!

 

[p.giannakis]

27 years younger than my IIc....

 

[skibeerr]

Four years older than the first time you asked.

 

[smiling gecko]

hee hee hee...ehhh...

hee hee hee...ehhh...

welll...i keep telling my wife i'm middle-aged...hee hee hee, yeeeah.

breathe, relax and enjoy.
sg

 

[silverbullet]

In December just one year in front from this:

http://www.links2love.com/love_lyrics_125.htm

The years passed too fast....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36573929@N00/169584109/in/set-72157594175682729/

 

[Luddite Frank]

Old enough to have actually bought 120, 620, 616, 116, and 127 roll-films all at the local drugstore ( and they weren't expired!) !

 

[ebino]

Had I served in the roman army of pre Marian reforms, I'd be a Princeps.

 

[eddie1960]

Had I served in the roman army of pre Marian reforms, I'd be a Princeps.

you didn't?

 

[Red Robin]

older than dirt

older than dirt

at 60 I'm older than ALL my rangefinders. I own a Bessa R but 99% of my work is with a Canon P. Having a forum like this really has given me a head start. Things in the pre-computer world of photography must have been much harder. My first real camera was a Brownie Hawkeye.. At 14 I moved up to a Kodak 110 . Now it seems that i have moved backward. The P's are, right now, just perfect, for me. Red R.

 

[Kent]

If I was a Leica, I would be an M4.

 

[Richard G]

Me, an M2, but two years younger than mine. I have neither a button nor a lever and definitely no rewind. Top cover thinning, vulcanite intact, rangefinder perfect. Mechanically A1. Both of us.