How old is everyone?

[Curos]

If you don't mind me asking :D

I believe I may be the youngest here at 15...good thing is, I have plenty of time to learn :lol:

[DocFrankenstein]

18

[Belmondo]

Darn. I thought I was the youngest one here. I'm within a month of being 62. (no presents, please).

[petiot]

2 (as my photo life) 29 otherwise .... :( 27 years wasted!! ;)

[Curos]

Darn. I thought I was the youngest one here. I'm within a month of being 62.

:D

I wish i had your knowledge of photography....as a side note, when did everyone start taking pictures?

[MarkH]

36

[Big_B]

24. Been taking photos for years but only seriously for the last year.

[Stapler123]

20, been taking pictures for picture sake for a year. This and my other hobby, Records (like vynil) fight for the small supply of Money I have.

[carnbrea]

52 and still holding it steady :lol:

[johneo]

I might be the youngest ... 13 years and 4.5 months :wink:

I really don't think it should matter if that should be multiplied by 4, do you ? :lol: :lol: :lol:

But seriously ... since I was in my early teens until now, with the exception of 1 year, I have always wanted to be 21. Only year I didn't want to be 21 was the year I WAS 21 :cry:

[ohenry]

I'm 53 years young.

[Jim_T]

52... And will have been retired for a full year on July 24th. I took up photography for something to do :)

[DirtyHarry]

21 and shooting for the past 4 years....only jumped on the wagon of digital for the past 6 months and love it to bits....now its getting good lenses and improving my skills! :D

[Mills]

39

[sGu]

23

first time picked up a camera i was 14, an old 35mm film cam, then stopped it after a while, might be distracted by other things, u know, as u do at that age. only seriously start to pick up photography again late last year when i played with my mate's brand new 10D, the day my life changed. soon after, i got mine, and been unstoppable ever since, never will ...

[vfilby]

25 and waiting until my next birthday to see what sort of accessories can go on the birthday wishlist. ;-)

Vince

[ERamos]

I'm 32, started taking pictures at about 15 (35mm SLR), 4 years since I went digital and 6 months since I bought my DigitalRebel. By the way..... I'm in love with it. :D :D :D

[Lamplight]

25 here. I've taken pictures occasionally throughout most of my life, but I really started getting into it a little over a year ago. :)

[2Hog]

74 years old and enjoying every minute of this forum. 2Hog

[PJ]

24

been shooting off and on (film) for 3 years.
switched to Digital 3months ago and my interest in Photography has grown a ton because of it.

[GPR1]

39 and shooting with off and on seriousness since 13.

[mikesd]

50 in a couple of months.

[Jemmind]

26 today! Yesterday was my birthday!!!
Julie

[vfilby]

Happy bday! Get any cool photo accessories? Or are you not that far gone yet?

Vince

[JZaun]

Got my SS qualification in June,, 39 for the 23rd time :D

Don't plan to get any older, just better :lol:

JZ

[Jemmind]

got a wireless remote for my camera. Also got a wireless optical keyboard and mouse which will make edititng more comfortable.
Julie

[jess07leigh]

15, i'll be 16 in 5 months and 3 days :D .

[Belmondo]

15, i'll be 16 in 5 months and 3 days :D .

But who's keeping track?

[Conk]

I play hockey and mountain bike like an 18 year old and heal like a 50 year old. :lol:
Put it this way, I can just remember seeing the first lunar landing on T.V. :shock:

[neecy52]

52 got my first camera at 11

[theflyingkiwi]

It's good to see some people over the age of 60 in this fourm. To many in the older generation think "I can learn anything new" :D I just hope that when I am that age, I too will be willing to learn something new :)

and to be different I am 267624 hours old, or 30 years + 201 days.

but I am not counting :lol:

[ron chappel]

39 (had to think about it though! :lol: )
But my friends think of me as younger than that-no not from looks but imaturity :P :D
Have been into photography since '74 but only serious occasionally-i give it up now and then.
I don't think i will this time!! Having an expensive DSLR sitting around doing nothing is not an option :shock:

[Tom W]

45 here - old enough to know better, but too old to care!

NZL-3G, I know exactly what you're saying. My dad is in his 80's and still enjoys photography, though at a much slower pace. He has an excellent camera, but its quite old - an A1. He ought to step up to autofocus, but he won't even do that. I know that if he'd get into digital, he would rediscover a little piece of youth, at least for a while.

[Curos]

Great to here from everyone. Thanks guys! (and gals :D )

[Belmondo]

It's good to see some people over the age of 60 in this fourm. To many in the older generation think "I can learn anything new" :D I just hope that when I am that age, I too will be willing to learn something new :)

Oh, you will, G3user. It just gets a lot harder. :cry:

My mother was still doing the daily crossward puzzle from the Los Angeles Times when she was 93 (and completing it), and even though he was completely blind, my father was an avid letter writer and correspondent until he passed away at age 98. I don't know that they were remarkable in any other way except that they kept their minds busy right up to the end. That's what I hope to do.

(If I croak tomorrow, I guess I'll have gotten my wish thanks in part to photography. :lol: )

[2Hog]

Thought I would give a bit more information. I am 74 and bought my first digital camera several years ago. A G2. I followed that with a G3 which I still have and recently acquired a 10 D along with an assortment of lenses. Digital photography is an ideal, expensive and demanding retirement hobby.

As an aside, I purchased my first Harley in 1948 and have been riding ever since. My moniker "2hog" was given to me by my son-in-law as I still own and ride 2 Harleys. Harleys and digital photography make dandy hobbies. They go well together.

To go along with all this I had to build 2 computer systems and try to learn Photoshop CS and BreezeBrowser. What a "rush". I will probably be 110 before I get it all figured out if then.

Life doesn't begin at 40 - life begins at 70.

[Persian-Rice]

21, starting messing around with my dads Nikon when I was 8. Was interested in photography until I was 12-13. From about 12-13 to about the age of 17, I was more into collecting photographs and whatnot. Then at 17 my friend got me back into it once he showed me his nikon F5, what a camera! He had 2 of them, so he let me hold one in my possession for a few years. He ended up selling both to a studio. I was cameraless for a year till about 3-4 months ago when we got a Canon a75.

Now I'm getting my own set of stuff very soon. I'm getting my degree in photography and journalism. Plan documenting the world and life, trying to do my part in keeping Nachtwey's legacy of giving those without voices a voice, until the day I die.

So, thats how old I am, when I started, stopped, started, stopped and plan to start again and how I plan on continuing it.
Cheers.

[Roy NN7DX]

Ham radio for 48yrs... Photography 45yrs... Digicams 7yrs (9 cameras)... That adds up to 100 years... you'd think I'd know something by now...

This quip will be out of date this Thanksgiving when I'll be 60...

[nucki]

26

[IanD]

53 next month. Unlike Belmondo, sent presents :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Been playing around with photography for many a year, not getting better, just more expensive :oops:

[Canuck]

25, going on 26 the beginning of next month.

[Case]

28 today!
Brand new Manfrotto tripod from my lovely wife :D

Chris

[Vita Rara]

34

I started taking pictures when I graduated from High School on a summer trip to Europe. (Canon TX and a Kodak Retina)

Came home and got an EOS 620 when it came out in '87/88. Stopped taking pictures due to the expense and the realization that my thing was travel photography and life wasn't allowing for travel.

Last year I bought a BMW mototcycle and started travelling the country. I had to get pictures to go with the travel journals. I knew I wanted a digital, so, I got the dRebel the end of September 2003 and over 4,000 pictures later I love it. Need more glass though.

I'm with 2Hog, photography and motorcycles really go together well. Although getting two bodies, four lenses and sundry stuff packed safely can be an issue.

Mark

[arumdevil]

21.

Did some Black and white photography I darkroom printing in school at 16 with an old full manual camera. loved it but gradually lost enthusiasm due to cost and slow results.


Got my 300D in MAY for birthday :D, now loving it more than ever.

[rick barclay]

I'm 60, but I might as well be 15 for all I know about taking pictures. :)

[ijohnson]

I am 28 but I am living in South Korea which makes me 29. Multiply that by the 1.6x crop factor on the 10D and it would seem that I am 46.

[Transfix]

24

[Tapeman]

56

I have been anoying my family with cameras since 1970.

[roanjohn]

25!!! Going through my quarter life crisis......hence the camera and the expensive lenses!!!

I hope its only uphill from here.............

:-)

Ro1

[stopbath]

Just over two years old (I don't know my egg laying day, my emerging day, or my metamorphisis day, nor even my becoming undead day... but I am sure I have hibernated only twice...)

Converted from frog to human years, that would be about 44... Though maybe not, since vampires don't age as fast as mere mortals. :)

[Vegas Poboy]

Forty going on fortyone in October. Started of when I was 14 with a Kodak 126 then off to a Kodak 110 by the age of 17. Took the big step to a Canon AE1 program @ the age of 20.
Funny now the only thing I'll touch from Kodak is film & very little of that :?

[neil_r]

48 and snappin for 28 years, shutter almost knackered !

N

[EoSD30fReAk]

turned 26 in june.

got my first camera when i was 7 and took quite some pictures back then!

and picked up photography again with digital about 5 years ago 8)

[HJMinard]

39. Caught the photography bug in my teens and saved up newspaper route earnings to buy an Olympus OM-1, a couple lenses, flash and accessories. When I was 19 someone determined that they needed it more than I (parents house was burglarized while I was home from school for a weekend). Unfortunately I did not use the insurance money to properly replace my equipment ("needed" a fancy stereo for the dorm room) and I did not truly return to photography as a hobby until I went digital about 3 years ago.

[ndh]

29. Became interested in digital photography last summer, got a PowerShot A60 for Christmas, trying to learn more about photography! (Already wishing, at times, for more megapixels for easier cropping, and a remote for doing multiple exposures without jiggling the camera.) I've gotta say that the critiquing and tutorials (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=34606) on this forum are fantastic for a learner.

I've been a tech geek since my parents bought a Vic 20, and it was partially the possibilities of editing photos and making panoramas and such that drew me in to digital cameras!

[G2Jim]

Almost 49 (on my way to 100!)

[Soopah]

I'm 26, but my children are making me feel like I'm in my 40's today. :lol:

[cmM]

20

I've always enjoyed a camera in my hands, but I started thinking about it seriously 2 years ago. (someone started talking to me about the more technical aspects of photography and aroused my curiousity...)

[RinkRat]

34.

Been shooting for quite some time. (16 days now). :)

-RinkRat

[Canuck]

48 and snappin for 28 years, shutter almost knackered !

N

What about the mega-extended warrantee, or better yet send back for service? :lol:

[tommykjensen]

37.

Bought my first Canon EOS SLR in 1996. Bought my first digital camera Olympus C3030z in june 2000. Bought my first DSLR (300D) in october 2003 and have since that shot more photos than I did from 1996 up til october 2003.

[billfranklin]

Well, 2Hog you have me beat. I'm only 70. Started taking pictures in Jr. Hi at age 15, and retired from film photography about 5 yrs. ago. I then made the mistake of buying a Nikon 990. I picked up a couple of paying jobs, and thought, hey, this is easier than film. I then bought the Canon D60, and picked up a few more jobs. I now have the Canon Mark II and hope I can pick up enough jobs now to pay for it. As someone said, life begins at 70. I've never had so much fun in all my life as now.

Bill F

[shniks]

I'm 29, only one year away from the dreaded 30's. Have only been taking photos for the last 6 months on my G5, I can't wait to get an slr and spend the rest of my life trying to capture the elusive but perfect photo.

[dicky109]

Photography is ageless.

Recently met up with Roan & Vadim in NY, and at 55, I probably come close to equaling the sum of their years.

[Seveneer]

32....

[arogop]

31

[neo_xeno]

21

[daaaveman]

I'm 38 but I have the body of an 18 year old















in my freezer!!!!!

[Mike H]

41, started taking pictures in the late 1970s.

Mike H

[aam1234]

I have a question about age,

How come the ladies are "barely" 30 or a tad more than "25".

Elastic band comes to mind :D

We guys don't care about telling our age (after we deduct 10 years)

[shniks]

I have a question about age,

How come the ladies are "barely" 30 or a tad more than "25".

Elastic band comes to mind :D

We guys don't care about telling our age (after we deduct 10 years)

How do you know who is a lady and who isn't?
I don't understand why anyone would hide their age anyway, I am happy to be getting older and wiser.

[aam1234]

shniks, I know that you are a lady. Saw your pic here.

[aam1234]

Just to add. You've been compared to Mona Lisa. How stupid was that.

umm, maybe not, come to think about it.

[Belmondo]

Okay. So far we've had threads about tell us your age. Then there was the 'Show us Your Face' thread. Someone else wanted to know how much money we all made. Do you see a pattern developing here?

[aam1234]

Yeah. I'd like to know what car everybody is driving (cars is one of my hobbies)

[vfilby]

Okay. So far we've had threads about tell us your age. Then there was the 'Show us Your Face' thread. Someone else wanted to know how much money we all made. Do you see a pattern developing here?

Somebody is looking for a hot photographer lady, or man, who makes alot of money and... drives a nice car ;-)

Vince

[aam1234]

Somebody is looking for a hot photographer lady, or man, who makes alot of money and... drives a nice car

Yep. That's me (females only). But in terms of phtography, it's not me. I never took a nice shot. I try though.

[Tom W]

OK, I'm old, ugly and broke. And I drive a POS car. I hold out empty zoom lens barrels on the street corner asking for donations.

[aam1234]

ha ha Tom W, good one.

btw, r u willing to sell ur 100-400

[Tom W]

Nope - 100-400 is a keeper. :)

I'm not quite that broke!

[aam1234]

Tom W, i hate you (in a good way)

[Belmondo]

Tom W, i hate you (in a good way)



......AND he's probably a Titans fan. :? :shock: :lol:

[Tom W]

Tom W, i hate you (in a good way)



......AND he's probably a Titans fan. :? :shock: :lol:


No way!!! Cleveland Browns all the way to the Super Bowl. Its in my roots!!

http://images2.fotopic.net/?iid=y275n1&outx=600&noresize=1&nostamp=1

I knew these "test" images would come in handy some day!

[geisha]

i am sweet 28 and never been kissed... :oops:

as a child i would have a snapshot camera and taking endless amounts of photos and although my composition was great (for a kid) i always thought that i would just start to make these pictures as i had imaged them in my mind... well... i grew up.. :lol: :lol:

about 15 years ago i went to europe with my parents and in singapore my dad buys me a Canon AE-1.. i never knew how to use it, but cherished this thing as my father did few acts of love and if any it was through his wallet.. but i have picked it up again 2 years ago and i love it, very sentimental to me.

oh and boys i drive a peugout (never can spell it, sorry)

[Jesper]

I'm 29, only one year away from the dreaded 30's. Have only been taking photos for the last 6 months on my G5, I can't wait to get an slr and spend the rest of my life trying to capture the elusive but perfect photo.

Ha! Nothing wrong with being 30! 8)

I'm 32, will be 33 in two weeks (9 August). :)

Won my first camera with bingo when I was 12 (one of those with very small negatives on a disk), but it's become my main hobby since 3 or 4 years.

[shniks]

shniks, I know that you are a lady. Saw your pic here.

So, are you saying I look older than 29? :lol:

[psk4363]

I'm 25 years old, then I look in the mirror and see a 51 years old guy looking back!

Barry

[Tiger1]

Darn. I thought I was the youngest one here. I'm within a month of being 62. (no presents, please).

:o Well - Belmondo got you beat by 1 year (more-unfortunately), but whos counting - I hear that life expectancy is now 90 - hell :lol: :lol: we've got a lot of photographing to do!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wish that digital would have come along about 40 years ago - we'd probably have a Canon 6 ounce - 4"x4" - 500MP digital by now with dial up "L"s on a rotary push button bezel. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Whoa - what a trip.

[c0ntr0lz]

Z winks at geisha Howdy!!

I'm 29 as of June and I got my 1st camera back on Oct 26th 2003, the a80 and fell head over heels in love with photograhy. I took 8400 pix with it until i got my 300d(now my 310d) on may 20th and took 12700 photos the 1st month i had it.

and most of yall know the rest of the story


it's great to see the range and it's even cooler to see how old someone is that you've been talking/chatting with on the forum.

Oh and I drive a 1995 Dodge Ram Ext cab and I work at Perot Systems making lets say about 39k+

[Matixvolta]

Bloody hell!

I'm 18....

I feel strange being like the youngest here and doing photography.

Is this normal?

[Curos]

pfft, 18.


youngest? ha!

15 here :oops:

[Mitchkitter]

17

[aam1234]

i always thought that i would just start to make these pictures as i had imaged them in my mind... well... i grew up

Sooo true. My dream is to be able to translate those images in my head/eyes into decent photos...as a grown up now.