32 now, but 31 was definately the best. My daughter was born GRIN


Jon

just turned 18 on jan 21st, W00T

Well, Im 16...............................................................along time ago.

49 until September. Pro videographer since 1981.

55
Youth is a gift of nature.
Age is a work of art!

My average age is 55.

uh....38 or 39, I think,.... Ill have to do the math.


Hey cool!! 38.

15 in May- i've been corrupted young!

23 and lovin it.


John

Wow, i'm embarassed- [coughing] i'm sweet sixteen

Im 16

15

Hi,

I am 19. I will be 20 in July. I became interested in video at about 12 and started playing around with the family camera. I am now using a DVX100a and starting to do some more serious stuff.

Nate

Now getting a little older again :).

20!

As I wrote earlier in this thread, I'm 51 years old. I recently left TV news after 30 years and started my own video production company. I too started my life/career as a young boy in the Chicago suburbs with a friend's Super 8 film camera. I was hooked right then.
While I became an executive in the TV news business, my first love was always reporting, shooting and especially editing. You young folks are so lucky to have computers, digital cameras and DVDs to produce your work. These things didn't exist when I started which made doing quality work, or any kind of work for that matter, extremely difficult.
The one thing I'd advise young people: don't forget to live. It's great to watch a lot of movies, go to film school and spend all day in front of the computer. But without life experience- travel, volunteering, sports, love, environmental activity- you'll have no authority on which to base your work. Imitating great films is all the rage in Hollywood right now. That's because these people don't know anything about life, just movies. Live, and record it.

I am a little older than Ken (52) and started shooting video because I realized I was spending too much time in front of a PC, working as well as goofing off, and decided I needed a hobby that other people could share in. So when I bought a new Dell PC, I bought a Canon ZR10 from them as well, figuring the warranty was a deal - for me anyway.

I agree with Ken that life experience- travel, volunteering, sports, love, environmental activity are very important. So I use shooting video as an excuse to go on great vacations. And shooting my niece's gymnastics meets, and a nephew's Judo meets.

I still sit in front of a PC too much, but the results are shown to people who actually enjoy the videos. Either because they are the star, or because they like to see the pretty pictures from the cool places we travel to.

Greece for 11 days this June - should be a lot of cool places to shoot.

I'm 18.
Yep, finally and adult... cough

19 in June and making my way up.

21, and I am just about to finish film school, and I totally agree with Ken and Steven. Film school is good to grasp the technical side of filmmaking, however, as most work in film schools shows, you need a great understanding of life and how to imitate it. I too sometimes find it hard to get away from the computer screen and live life to the fullest

I am 22 years old

24, finish film school this year

Sony FX1E camera

53 and holding.

Hey, Paul! It's great to see another antique on the squad. For those of us who grew up shooting film (a lot of it in black and white), I believe digital technology has made dreams we never even had come true. I hope you younger folks appreciate the power you have and use it not just to amuse yourselves but to bring the world together in a new regime of communication and understanding.
Certainly MSM don't see it that way! Be independent- stay independent!

I am 26 y.o. and feel every bit of it. lol.

and rolling full speed...

Sony FX1E camera

I just celebrated the 21st anniversary of my 30th birthday. Back in the day, it was "never trust anyone over 30" so I stopped having birthdays. I refuse to age gracefully. I got to this point kickin' and screamin', and I'll go out the same way. "Live hard, die fast, and get to heaven 10 minutes before the devil knows I'm dead."

Dan

17 goin on 18.
Yeah i know, seems very young compared to some
I think most teens will say this though when it comes to their age: Judge me by what i do and who i am, not how old i am.

- Jack

31 going on 17. Still skateboard, still drink too much at parties, still go to rock concerts and mosh, still spend way too much money on toys, started video makin' in 1998.

I will be 77 in August. I have loved photography and video for many years.
I also have been a camera collector,and have owned many classic cameras.

My wife and I have videoed & edited many weddings for young couples at Church. I am not a professional by any means, but it is a great hobby. Due to diabetes & leg problems that is getting to be a thing of the past. I just can't keep up with the wedding party anymore.

I have done several documentries of Elk, Birds, Salmon in the Rogue River
here in southern OR

I use the Sony TRV950, TRV20, Canon Optura Pi. I also have a Sony 510-D8,
Canon ES 6000 Hi-8 & Canon ES 2000 Hi-8. I guess you could say I am a camera nut.

I first started editing with a Casablanca Avio. I also use an Apple E-Mac With Final Cut Express 2, which I use daily.

I Don't respond very often, but I log on and read the threads every day. I enjoy everyones comments. and have learned a lot.

Thanks for listening

Bob J. Trimmer

29 going on 10.

56, and start feeling it

Lord, now I feel old.

57.

Shot my first professional photo assignment with a 4x5 Speed Graphic.

Shot my first documentary on a 16mm Bolex.

Still have a library of 3/4 inch U-Matic tapes (and a Sony deck to play and edit them) and a TEAC reel-to-reel for audio work.

The Speed Graphic and Bolex are part of a display case of old equipment in one corner of our gallery now.

Just call me gramps.

Lord, now I feel old.

57.

Shot my first professional photo assignment with a 4x5 Speed Graphic.

Shot my first documentary on a 16mm Bolex.

Still have a library of 3/4 inch U-Matic tapes (and a Sony deck to play and edit them) and a TEAC reel-to-reel for audio work.

The Speed Graphic and Bolex are part of a display case of old equipment in one corner of our gallery now.

Just call me gramps.

hello doug,

we should have our own senior corner and 10% off...

greetings

greetings and salutations, i'm 28 and just recently began to take filmmaking seriuosly, wrote a script, ran out and bought an Canon XL2, brought on a crew and we are curently shooting our second short film. WWW.Sleathermovie.COM

My first post on here, but I've been lurking for a while, and from what I can tell, I'm one of, if not the youngest here.

I'm... Wait for it... 15.

I've made 3 or 4 small little basement films, but my next short looks like it'll be a competition piece. Obviously I'm shooting all DV.

I guess I have a head start though because my father is a video editor and former cameraman (his work on Evening Magazine won him 3 Emmys, anybody remember that show?) and he basically raised me on making videos and editing.

I'm 49... and holding. Started at age 10 in 1966 with an 8mm film camera. I admit to an extensive 3/4-inch U-Matic library, BetacamSP library, and machines to play them. MAN, does the DV library look puny next to THOSE! I mean, it takes dozens of DV tapes to fill the space of a few BetacamSP 60-minute master reels. Somehow, it just looks... wierd.

Luckily, the older I get, the lighter and smaller the gear gets. THAT, I like.

Rich

19, I have been doing business as a videographer since I was 17. Started with football games then just recently added weddings.

I have shot 2 short films, both in post

Preparing to shoot feature in fall to raise money for local charities.

You can visit my website www.mattsfilms.com for info on feature and shorts.

Iam also a proffesional magician and going to college full-time
It gets busy in the fall, I'll tell you that!

~Matt


...Judge me by what i do and who i am, not how old i am.

- Jack

Hi eveyone, I just became a member here!
I'm 22, Toronto, ON

Almost 48. And planning my first short (the storyboard is completed, scouting for locations at the moment).

24. Mastering basic digital cinematagraphy and editing skills so that I can begin into several documentary productions Im planning out. And then move in to producing and full independant digital feature.

43 and still learning!
Keep up Culture

ehh..., average-shmaverage.......
Ken, you should ponder the age thing with the no of post (or reads) to get the real age representation on this board.....(kiddn)
Same BD as Rasputin (1959 though) so... 46 years young! (IF, you don't mind)
With as many tech temptations around, s'gonna take me 4ever to figure what I want to do when I grew up. (my kids know better) Got hooked on B/W film, prints, darkroom, lens an-ol-that at the tender age of 14 though.....(hair of the dog that bit me was (seldom)........ in the gate. hehehe (;-)<

28 is creepin' up on me!!

Hi everyone,

I'm glad to be able to post on this great site. I have just recently discovered this fantastic source of information when looking for info on a Canon GL2 I have rented for a summer job. I'm just a young lad at the age of 20 but plan to be hanging around cameras for many years to come.

-Justin

Man, I'm gettin old, I'm about to hit 23 in couple of weeks. Kinda depressing actually, the point in my life where I am seeing all my high school friends, turn from boys to mature men in many different ways. Life sux, lets make the best of it. :)

Why, I'd be 17. And lucky enough to have a father who's willing to bankroll my video hobby. He's 50-something.

I'm 27 :-)

New to the site (good work guys) and 45 years young, well,.....old.

I started hobby filming with Super 8 in 1976 (Canon Autozoom 1014 electronic). I switched to video in 1986 with a Panasonic VHS shoulder camcorder and stopped again pretty soon because of the crappy image quality and editing possibilities.

Second try in video with DV in 1999. In my business (computers) I'm specialized a bit in NLE systems based on Apple and FCP. I love videography and have created beside some event videos a couple of short projects based on travel reports or projects putting classical music into pictures (Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" i.e.). Actually I use a Canon XM1 (GL1) and I'm planning to switch to a JVC GY-HD100 as soon as I'm sure that it fits my needs and it's available.

Since some time I'm a (volunteer) forum moderator at an Australian adult website and I'm working in my free time to get my own web & media business (beside the computers) up and running http://www.outline-media.com.

GJ

I'm 19 years young.

44 going on 21 (and according to my wife, acting like 17)

Sean McHenry
http://www.DeepBlueEdit.com