Poll: How old are you LF shooters?

Are all LF'ers Old Farts?

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jovo

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59 and glad the poll was taken before October of this year

I've been smitten with LF for years but bought my kit about 4 years ago when I was able to build a darkroom, and buy an enlarger to accomodate it.
 

ChrisC

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22, and have had my 4x5 for just over a year now. Although I haven't had the motivation to use it for the last 4-6 months. Does this make me a bad person?!
 

AZLF

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I am 54 and started in photography with 4x5 in 1965 as a freshman in high school. Continued using lt (though not exclusively) through my teens and early twenties as a photographer with the Army. Switched to mf and 35mm until 1986 when I was working with a commercial photographer here in Tucson shooting 4x5 and 8x10. Went back to 35mm in the early 90's and got my present 4x5 cameras in 2004. I am currently successfully fighting the urge to get back into 8x10.
 

dschneller

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37 and had fun with my first 4x5s last year. Hope to shoot some more in about a month.
 

df cardwell

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Seems most of us are old enough to know better

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colrehogan

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John_Brewer said:
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After seeing the above, I have to be cute too.

MMVI - MCMLXVIII

I started 4x5 at the end of 2001 and started 8x10 in 2003. 2006 is the year I start 5x12.
 
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joeyk49

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Two score and five....tepidly playing with LF for about a year or so.
 

jp80874

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66, shooting 4x5, then 8x10, the three years of my retirement, while taking college photography courses using the state's senior student discount, buying equipment with Social Security and addressing back pain with Medicare. God Bless the screaming kids that are funding it all. May they complain about it until I am 100.

John Powers
 

langedp

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48 and feeling 35. Been serious about LF for the last 4 years with 4x5 and 8x10. Been doing my own darkroom since 1972. LF certainly seems to be a boomer kind of thing.
 

johnnywalker

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64. I've had my 4X5 for almost two years, recently got an enlarger to go with it.
 

k_jupiter

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Yeah well, I'm 49, what of it?

I learned LF in 1985 (NESOP first year), didn't do a lot of it after that year until three years ago. I now have 2x3, 3x4, 4x5, and 5x7 cameras, film, holders, etc. Is there an 8x10 in my future? Not unless I hit the Lotto.

tim in san jose
 

wildbill

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I'm 28 and been at it for about 4 years. Good to year you're back at it Bill. I see your bridge photo every time i visit IKEA and have always wondered why you didn't shoot more LF.
 

Robert Hall

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I've shot 8x10 with grandpa's camera when I was much younger, but I actually used the miniture format for a number of years. Then after a significant rest from photography, I started shooting 8x10 again in about 96, then around 2002 I started using 12x20. I would have to say 8x10 is still my mainstay, but I have been trying to increase my larger format portfolio.

I say I'm 35 this year cause once I caught 40, I started counting backwards. I figure if I make it to 0, I've done my job.
 

Patrick Kolb

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The face in the mirror, says I'm 61, but I fell like I'm 41. I guess this is the result of the morning marches my wife insists on. Lucky me.
 

David H. Bebbington

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I'm 57. I used LF cameras every day for 7 years in the 60s and 70s in studios but never actually owned one until about 5 years ago. When I was a child of about 6, I remember standing in front of a second-hand camera dealer's in Stockport, England which was full of MPPs and Speed Graphics going for £10 to £15 (this was just when all the pressmen were changing to Rolleiflexes) and longing for the day when I could afford a 4x5" and be a "real" photographer. I am trying to tell if this day has arrived or not!
 

Wayne

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Mid 40's (in denial), grew up with large format cameras in the house and an 8x10 enlarger in the basement, but didnt start LF myself until 20-some years ago. (the enlarger was gone by then, dangit...)

According to this poll I might have about 15 good years left, lol. Better get to work! (and start saving for the 11x14 too)


Wayne
 
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