Poll: How old are you LF shooters?

[BradS]

41. I took up LF a few years ago. Like so many others before me, I started with a Crown Graphic. The kind gentleman from whom I bought the camera met me in the parking lot at 501 McCarthy Blvd. in Milpitas on a beautiful Saturday morning and gave me an hour long introduction to the camera and the whole art of large format - right there in the Quaxtor parking lot! Kurt Leal, if you're readinf this, Thank-you...again!

I've not noticed and ill effects of religious (?) dogma concerning large format but then, those who've met me know I'm not one to conform. I'm much more likely to spit it out and try the next glass than to swallow and force a smile.

The addiction...geez, nobody warned me about that. To date, I've bought five (!) LF cameras, sold two and built three. No regrets. I do occasionally feel like I'm negleting all that lovely 35mm gear that6 I've accumulated over the many years before 4x5.

 

[RAP]

Well, I was 24 in 1978 when I bought my first 4x5, a Wista Field 45. Here is a shameless link to my website and you can read how I almost never made it into LF.

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Now I am 51 years old, still surfing, an avid runner, though I wish my back would not slow me down so much.

 

[removed account4]

I agree with df - LF dogma is best approached like tasting wines of unknown origin. Take a little sip, and then spit it out if it doesn't taste right.

i often spit it out.

 

[Terence]

32 years old physically, 5 years old mentally (like most guys). Started with 4x5 6 years ago, 5x7 5 years ago, 8x10 3 years ago, and 8x20 two years ago.

At this rate, by the age of 38 I should be using a 32"x40".

 

[BradS]

101000 (in binary)

2^5 + 2^3 == 32 + 8 == 40.

 

[John_Brewer]

2^5 + 2^3 == 32 + 8 == 40.

There are 10 types of people in this world - those who understand binary and those who don't. Hehe, your one of the types that do then Brad!

John

 

[Flauvius]

I am 56. The 4x5 large format bug bit about 15 years ago; the 8x10 pt/pl muse seduced me about 5 years ago. No regrets, and a hell of a good way to intensely enjoy the personal offerings that life presents.

Flauvius

 

[Shawn Dougherty]

I'm 27 years old and I come here to feel young. Is that wrong?

 

[AZLF]

I'm 27 years old and I come here to feel young. Is that wrong?

These young whippersnappers! Why when I was his age I was a year older than that........

 

[Terence]

I turned 30 yesterday, ouch, and have been 4x5 for about a year

Another Hoboken LF shooter? I thought I was the only one. Damn.

 

[esanford]

I am 57... I have my LF on a tripod in my study.... one day I'll gain the courage to use it...

 

[Aggie]

2^5 + 2^3 == 32 + 8 == 40.

Brad there is an easier way to figure that out. You have 1's and zeros. 1x1 = 1 so you throw one one out. then you have 4 zeros, so 4x1=4, then you take and get rid of all the extras, and you are left with one zero so 4 and 0 = 40... every self respecting blonde in denial who dies their hair red, knows this. It ranks right up there with my desk top computers cup holder that doubles as a credit card slot when I purchase things on line.

 

[BradS]

Brad there is an easier way to figure that out. You have 1's and zeros. 1x1 = 1 so you throw one one out. then you have 4 zeros, so 4x1=4, then you take and get rid of all the extras, and you are left with one zero so 4 and 0 = 40... every self respecting blonde in denial who dies their hair red, knows this. It ranks right up there with my desk top computers cup holder that doubles as a credit card slot when I purchase things on line.

Hey! They never taught us that in school. Maybe, I should ask for a refund?
Hmmm....your computer has a up holder and a credit card slot? I think you been hanging 'round one (or more?) of those IT type fellows for too long...

I better stop before I completely geek out...

 

[jimcollum]

48, been doing it since 1977. picked up a 35mm camera and for some reason, it didn't do it for me. a month later i found an old 4x5 and have been playing with it ever since

jim

 

[JohnArs]

Im very soon 50 years old and do it since 16 years with 4x5 and since 2 years also with 8x10!
And the reason for to go 8x10 all the apugers with the size does matter theory, all this sick people and I'm also sick now! ;-))))

 

[roteague]

I replied earlier, but wanted to add something. I'm 51, been shooting 4x5 about 15 years, but not seriously until the last 4 or 5 years. Frankly, I have no interest in anything larger, I find all this noise about going larger is a bunch of nonsense. The photography world doesn't revolve around contact prints nor B&W. I can get everything I want out of 4x5 Velvia. Is 40x50 big enough?

 

[Helen B]

50, and I've been using the same 5x4 MPP S92 since I was 19, with one or two others occasionally.

 

[Kirk Keyes]

I'm 43 and I've been using a 4x5 as my primary format since I was about 21.

 

[kswatapug]

I have to go with the "age being a state of mind," and my state has been frozen in the mid-twenties for some twenty years.

 

[waynecrider]

Bump

 

[colrehogan]

I think it's neat that we've seen a response for all age groups in the poll represented.

 

[roteague]

Bump

That right!!! We've got 11,000+ members, but ony 178 voted....

 

[BradS]

That right!!! We've got 11,000+ members, but ony 178 voted....

Which is not too bad if there are only 200 LF shooters among us. I doubt the number is that low however.

 

[AZLF]

Actually at least 179. I voted and posted but my name does not appear in the poll results that I could see.

 

[Mike A]

38 going on 15, so my wife says.