Are we all old?

<p>PS.<br>

I will be buried with my f3 and 105mm 2.5 so don't ask.</p>

<p>-Cheers</p>

<p>Old photographers never die, they just fade away.</p>

<p>Not all. I'm 18, and only have one "classic manual camera" (my grandfather's Contax IIa), but I spent all Xmas break printing pictures I took with my Nikon F3 and RB67, so that sort of counts. I shoot digital too because it's convenient, and better in some situations. I also made myself a wooden pinhole camera for paper negatives. I printed some 8x10s the other day for the first time (I'd only done 5x7s previously) and can't wait to set up my bathroom darkroom again. <br />I guess that'll bring down the average age a bit :)</p>

<p>Go for it Alexander.</p>

<p>-Cheers</p>

<p>Am I old? Not in my mind and not at my heart. But I was in grade school when Patti Page was at the top of the Chart. </p>

<p>I still shoot film. Just finished a roll in my Konica Auto S2 shooting streets in -10 degree C temperature yesterday and started on a new roll of 120 TMAX in my 500C/M for table top shots last night. I still have a wet darkroom with 3 enlargers. </p>

<p>I also do digital. Today, I played all day with my Nikon D7000 doing macro shots and focus-stacking with Helicon Focus.</p>

<p>So much to do, so little time!<br>

Raymond</p>

<p>I'm 62 and enjoying life more than I ever have before. I was a boy running around my grandfathers studio where he took portraits with his 8x10 Kodak...yes, it was made by Kodak...the only one sold by Rochester overseas. He used a 4x5 for offsite assignments where he need portability. I think he had a Linhof. He was experimenting with medium format at the time of his death in the mid 60s. <br>

In my own photography, the biggest format was 35mm film until very recently. I now use digital if the circumstances suit. Film will always be part of my tool kit. I am about to purchase a decent scanner so my workflow will now be hybrid. That's the best for me. </p>

<p>I hope to bring some worthy examples of my images to my account here in the future.</p>

<p>55 here. As far as I know I'm somewhere between one-half and two-thirds through my journey. I'm still half my age in mind, twice my age in my joints.</p>

<p>I've been using film since I was 8 years old. Ten years ago I was 100% film. Now I'm 75% digital, 25% film, and still 100% photographer. It's still mostly about the images to me. But I love the process as well.</p>

<p>But I still have a fondness for the same types of cameras that inexplicably match my personal quirks. If a camera is too sensible, we probably won't get along.</p>

<p>A mere forty eight.</p>

<p>Turned 36 last weekend. Started using classic film cameras back in 2005, went mad since then and now own about 80 cameras from 1915 to 1980.</p>

<p> </p>

<p>To Mr. Burke..gosh 93 and a half, you have seen some changes, very impressive! I hope to get that old but my doctor says that I wont. Really chuffed to see so many younger people here, keeping the flag flying.</p>

<p>To Allen Klein:<br /> Sometimes we just smell that way.<br>

Tony, this is the liveliest thread I can remember. Thanks... damned rheumatism.</p>

<p>I'm 67 and the wife and I still have our own business where we go to work 5 days a week. The idea of retirement doesn't really appeal to us. One day, I'm sure, we'll sell out or close the doors but it doesn't feel right to do it yet.<br>

We do picture framing, as well we sell art supplies and we have a small gallery. The wife displays her paintings and I display some photographs and the odd antique camera. We get to see some very nice art pass through our doors.<br>

I'm not opposed to new technology, we frame the results of it almost every day, but personally I prefer to use film.<br>

My baby:</p>

<p><img src="http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa19/literiter/Nikon-F2-1.jpg" alt="" width="1000" height="750" /></p>

<p> </p>

<p>If I did the math correct, our average age is 52.</p>

<p>I'm glad you asked, as I've been curious about this myself. At 43, I'm very glad to see that there are many people here who are younger than me. I'm optimistic about the future of film and classic cameras.</p>

'I'm tipping the old scale in the middle.I'm 55. But I was a classic camera guy almost from my own beginning. In 1981 I wanted to be a good photographer. By 1986. BEsides my 1976 YAsh FX2, I had a Yashica D, a Baby Speed Graphic,and a Yashica 5000e. I knew then I wanted to shoot classic cameras, The fun hasn't stopped. I do have a little digital P&S. I would like a better digital, but whenever the funds have been there they go for old gear!! Thinking Foveon DP1 almost cheap enough for us bottom feeders.

<p>I come in somewhere at the younger end of the scale at 35. I originally got into classics by buying inexpensive MF Nikkors to use on my digital Nikon. After sampling the feel of the old brass and glass, I had to get some age appropriate bodies to go along with them. For me, classic cameras are a bit like classic cars. I wouldn't want to drive one everyday, but it's nice to take them out for a spin every now and then. </p>

<p>45, still use a Minolta Himatic 7s from time to time.</p>

<p> The last super 8 movie cameras were made in the 80's. This as video became the new "home movie" format. There are still super 8 films made & and sold thirty years later. So if we have at least another 30 years for 35mm and 120 film, I will be happy. After that, you kids are on your own.</p>

<p>I'm 63. I have and enjoy a Canon G10 for shooting from the hip, but my true love is for film, even though I don't make enough time to get out and shoot. Retirement is looming, though, so I have high hopes. I just returned to Minnesota from a short jaunt to Florida, where I took more photos with my Olympus 35SP and Plus X than I did with the G10.</p>

<p>Tony I am 73 and like you it is a pleasure to buy the cameras I always wanted but never had the money for. SO I have in the house about 20 cameras 3 Olympus digital s 2 E300's and and E1 that's a pleasure to use. I have also picked up on eBay 4 Nikon D1 D1H and D1X cameras and a converted D1 IR then there is the Fuji S2 pro all of my others are film cameras a couple of Nikon EM's 2 Nikon FE's plus and assortment of others including a Yashica Mat and 2 Kiev 60's</p>

<p>I am 60 and using both film and digital cameras. Started photography in 1975 with a Rollei sl35, a few Zeiss lenses and a small Rollei 35s. I still have the Rollei 35s but sold in 1979 the sl35 to buy an Olympus OM2 and OM1. I still have those as well. I now have a collection of about 57 film cameras a few (folders) dating all the way back to 1904. All of these cameras (except for two) use 120 or 35mm film. I still use many of these collectible cameras (ex. Exakta's, Praktisix ll, Pentacon six, Kiev 60, Zorki's, Zeiss Ikon's etc). I spend about 20% of my photography time shooting film and the rest is digital. I hope that film will continue for a long time. </p>

<p>I'm 18 and have 25 years experience at it. According to my wife I'm 12 at a good day, 6 at my worst ;-)<br>

Just kidding I'm 43 and started photographing at 13 or 14 with a Zenit E that I got from an uncle, after that a f301, F65, D70, Kiev 6C, F4, F100, an old yashica, a canonet, F801s, a canon T50, D80 and an F80.<br>

and more glass than a dairy factory has milkbottles. </p>

<p>I'm not old. I'm 51. I'm middle aged.<br>

My 1938 Rollie is old.<br>

My early 1980's Nikon gear is new.<br>

My Mamiya 7ii is positively newborn!</p>

<p>Age 53, mental age 18, body feels 75.<br>

Cameras from 1932 to 2006, most frequently used rollei 3.5 e3 from 1962 and technika 111 from 1956.<br>

Most recent purchase Koni-Omega Rapid M, may need an assistant to carry it. I'm just so thrilled I lived long enough that all those unaffordable cameras from my youth that I lusted after have become so cheap because of digital.</p>

<p>Yes, it appears that this "transitional" period is a boon to us all at classic camera central!</p>