68 and not counting. Interesting but the responses are looking largely bipolar - 20-something and 50+. I guess all the mid-lifers have real jobs.

54, and enjoying every minute of it!

19 almost 20... But boy... I feel older (I know, I have to swim against the current)

Must be my love of 1930's films

I wont give away my age just yet, but I wanted to make a very interesting observation, out of all the ages posted, the very rare ages seem to be in the 40's .... Hardly anyone is on here.

Did this type of thing skip that generation bracket?

66 - and still working as freelance broadcast director / cameraman.
Where else would I get so much fun - apart from the obvious...

I just hit the half-century mark myself. I'm not surprised I made it this far, I'm just surprised by how quickly I got here! Where has the time gone? And even though the calendar says 50, I feel more like 30. (People tell me I act that way too. Some say I act even younger...um, substantially younger! Somehow, I don't think they mean it as a compliment though...)

I'm 43. Didn't skip me.

45 here, waiting on retirement.

I'm 43 (better post here before I turn 44 in July), and also waiting on retirement......

i'm 19 years old

I'm 46 myself.

I just became grandfather, now good luck guessing!

32, but I'll second that 15 at heart. Although the old body does not feel like 15 anymore.

I was a mere child when this thread started. I was in my 50s then, "I'm younger than that now." In fact, I must have already posted my age, but I haven't found that ancient post.

Since this thread will go on long after I'm gone, let me allow you to take a picture in time - I was born August, 14, 1945 - take the picture, how old am I now?

When the thread started I had a thriving production company, although by 2003 the budgets had begun a downward spiral. The projects that commanded $1.2 million in the early 1990s, by 03 the average budget for the same production had dipped to $300k, by 2007 no one was putting up more than $200k for the same scale of production. In 2008 Terra Associates, Inc. was dissolved, and I rewired myself into Terra Multimedia, LLC.

Where are the budgets now? Well, a few months ago an old client asked me to bid on a project similar to one we had already done for the same client. They stated that "funds were tight". So I drew up a budget that was less than half of the earlier production, and handed in a budget of $92k. The reply came back full of woe - "Can you make it for a lot less?" I saw no way to do it for less, so I decided I'd do everything - direct, camera, lights, editing, DVD authoring, graphics - with a little help from my friends. I was surprised to come up with a $40k bottom line. The reply would have been painful, if it hadn't been so funny - "...and we were hoping for something less than $20 thousand..."

So now I'm doing some pro-bono work (and enjoying it); I'm teaching myself advanced After Effects, I'm shooting HD now, there are a few projects in the horizon, but mainly I teach two college courses in TV production, and I sit here with plenty of time to write this lengthy reply.

Hey, gotta job? Prices are cheap, and if you call now.... but wait, there is more - I have several Emmys, a Peabody, and a slew of cool awards.

So how old am I? - August 14, 1945, VJ Day - you do the math.

So nice to see you posting again Ozzie, welcome back! What a great day to be born, the end of the War.

I'm 36, I think. Who's counting anyway?

16...... :p

17 over here.

Just noticed this thread, 57 years young.

Strange that the post above is from someone who also live in "Sydney". I never realised there was more than one Sydney on the planet.

28 and I shot my first bit of video when I was about 16 if I remember correctly.

20

Who is keeping tally?

Gees.. I am 37 and really pissed that all this great technology is available to you youngins now.. wish I had this stuff when I was in my teens to early 20s to learn with. The software, computer power, gear.. My god. No wonder so many young 20s are doing well in this field. When I was 20, I had a shoulder mount camera that my dad paid an arm and a leg for back in the early 80s and I think it shot 2 frames an hour at 60 x 40 resolution. lol. The ability to shoot HDV, edit it and spit out a film in a day (assuming you just do quick editing and some filters) is outstanding! These same day edits that wedding videographers do would take months when I was 20.

I just hope I can find a way to afford some of these pristine toys while I am still young enough to understand present day computers.

I forgot about counting between 30 and 70 but I've started now again, at 31 or thereabouts.

You realize that since this thread was started, people are now up to 6 years older than stated :-)

Tell me about it, Edward. Today marks a half-century that I've been on this earth (just a tad longer than this thread's been going on here). ;)

I'd consider being depressed about 50 but realize that the milestone beats a headstone any day.

Lorinda, turning 50 for me was a hoot. I was taken out to dinner by friends, and the people at work rented a schooner to sail along the harbor. But ten years later - the big SIX OH - it was a different story. I guess everyone thought better of it and remained quiet - no dinner, no sailing, in fact I hardly remember the day.

Turning 50 is an accomplishment worthy of celebration. I guess the next big accomplishment will be 100, if I'm still conscious.

By the way, I'll be 64 this month, and it really hurts because in my head I still feel in my late 20s. That is, until I look in a mirror.

If that's the problem I'm thinking we should just get rid of our mirrors.

No schooners around here, mainly because there aren't any harbors. But that sounds like fun. It's so hot no one wants to do much, so it looks like the main event in this celebration will be pizza and beer. That means there could come a point in the evening where I feel like I'm in a schooner after all...and I'll tip a glass your way, fellow August baby. :)

32... 33 next year,

feeling though as if I would have lived 1008 years in this world.

31 years old

And Ozzie the saying is true mate, it is not how old you are, but how young you feel.

29. Still the good side of 30.

I'm old enough to know you don't ask this kind of question!......Where's the mystery, the romance....

52 in two weeks time.
Still a lot to render.
rafael

I'm 23 but this info is useless without a poll, unless your crazy enough to read them all and average them yourself.

I'm 26 but I still feel like I should be 20.

OK,

I may not act it but I am one short of 60. I do not feel like that most days.

have not had to down size the camera yet!

36. Wanted to work in film/video since I was in 8th grade. Had just watched Stand By Me (one of my faves), and then listened to a high school teacher who spoke to us in middle school about the A/V program they had there. I took classes in it 9th thru 12th.

25 here, barreling headlong towards 26 this october. Growing up I always felt like I'd have this moment, maybe when I was around 22 or 23 where I'd wake up one morning and feel like an adult. I still haven't had that feeling yet; Starting to doubt I'll ever feel it. I'm now the last single guy in our group of friends from university, and that depresses me...the rest are married, some have kids already, it's nuts.

from what i hear matt, even 30,40,50,60,70,80 year olds feel like they never 'grew up' to become an adult =). it's a state of mind ;)

I'm 19, not old enough for people to take me seriously, I guess.

It's up to you, Ben.

To be taken seriously by me, aged 70, you only have to teach me something, anything that I can understand and adapt to my little scenario. The older I get the more I enjoy learning. If you're a thoughtful teacher that helps me.

So far you are showing me that you have modest expectations of other people's opinion of you. That's not bad for a start. While you're at that, I'm sure you are observing how differently different people react to your modesty. I'm assuming that you are being modest, not just pretending.