how old are we?

**Bob McCarthy** · 6-Mar-2009, 17:23

Was 60 when this thread started, now I'm not.

Large format. I've had two tours. First in late 70's. Last tour began 2 years ago.

I shoot a barbell, Leica M2 on one end, Technika on the other. keep looking for the bubble levels on the Leica. Keep trying to handhold the Technika at 1/15th.

Bob

**Gudmundur Ingolfsson** · 6-Mar-2009, 18:01

how old are we?
I am 56. I have taken photographs since 1956. With a serious interest since 1958. Started shooting 4x5" in 1968 in photography school in Germany since it was mandatory. Got my first 8x10" in 1982 and an enlarger for that format in 1983. I like the big pice of film the more I use it longer. Recently I started potographing digitally because of clients demand. I still like film better, the bigger the sheet the better the results ! My camera for snaps now is a 6x7 cm one.
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How was this post revived? This was me close to seven years ago but I feel neither older or wiser now at the age of 63.

**Stefan Findel** · 6-Mar-2009, 20:40

57. LF since 1975. Before that all 'Nikon and Kodachrome'. Now all BW.
I like the idea of the Japanese Wabi-Sabi aesthetic, simplicity.

**pegaz** · 14-Mar-2009, 08:46

25. LF since last year. I found it amazing and demanding, what gives overall better results.

**Peter De Smidt** · 14-Mar-2009, 09:05

41.

**falth j** · 14-Mar-2009, 09:35

Approximately....

2,131,315,200 and getting older by the second...

but then again, who's counting?

**Cymen** · 15-Mar-2009, 20:03

31 and started a couple months ago.

**Gem Singer** · 16-Mar-2009, 02:35

This thread began on my seventy-second birthday.

It's now seven years later, and I'm still doing large format photography.

How old am i? You do the math.

**Mike V** · 27-Mar-2009, 12:09

Wow, I knew Id be one of the young ones!!

was 21 at the begining of this year!

**C. D. Keth** · 27-Mar-2009, 21:50

Wow, this old thread just keep being dug up. I'm 23 now and have been shooting large formats for about 5 years now. I started when I was in film school (for cinematography) and saw all the photo major lugging those 4x5 monorails around. I got an old 5x7 from Jim Galli and made some terrible pictures with it. Then I sold that to get a 4x5 shen hao and made some so-so pictures with that - at least they were less awful than before. Then I sold the 4x5 thinking that large format was too expensive and wasn't keeping my interest well enough. What would you know, last fall I got the bug again and bought an 8x10. I just finished refurbishing that camera last week and will be shooting the big stuff shortly.