47 and starting to feel it...lol....just very glad the cameras are getting lighter!!!!

twenty six; been in photography/video work since i was 20.

just turned 60, but still feel like 25 most days..been shooting since I was 20. And don't forget, inside every old person is a young person wondering what the f**k happened!

42 here, and feel like Im learning more every day Im on here, if my calculations are correct Ill know everything there is to know about video and photography by the time I'm 1349.........
and a half.
:)

I'm 55 and just lately I've started to realise it. That thing that I used to do all night now takes me all night to do, my eyes are on their third or fourth prescription for specs, paddling 4 or 5 kilometres in the kayak is still easy but the muscles now hurt the next day, If I look at the naked Missus, then open the 'fridge and spot a beer, the beer will win. Sad, isn't it?

Cheers

Russ

I'm 63 and sittin' back and enjoyin' life! A little fishing, playing with the grandkids, and lazing away the days on the back porch. And then there are the... Uhmm, what's happening??? I'm hallucinating!!!

Yes, I'm 63. But I'm not sitting on my tush in my advanced years. I'm a contract software developer who specializes in designing Data Warehouse (big database) systems. I still work 60-80 hours a week and rarely have a free moment. I definitely can't complain about the income and I have people constantly trying to hire me (a nice ego boost), but I wish I had more time to take pics and videos.

When I'm not working or remodeling the bathroom (a "modest" project), I spend a little time with my photo/videos pastime. Currently I'm editing a video project for my wife's Aikido dojo. Marianne is 67 and is one belt away from a black belt. (Yes, I'm very proud of her. And if you say one bad word about her, I'll kick... uhmm... I'll get Marianne to kick the crap out of you! :-) )

When the new Panasonic GH2 comes out late this year, I'm probably going to buy one and maybe a Marantz PMD661 (Oade Bros. Super Mod) for audio. (It would be great to retire my Nikon D70 and Canon HV30.) OTOH, if I could find even the slightest justification, I'd jump all over the new Panasonic AF100! One must dream, you know.

One thing I've learned in the last 60-some years is that we need to accept who we are and roll with it. When I was young, I was a geek. But I tried to deny it and make like I was "cool". Over the past several decades, I've learned to accept my innate geekness. I'm a lot happier and satisfied now. It embarrasses the heck out of my stepson, but that's his problem! :-)

Regards,

Dan.

45 ... going on 29 ...

Turned 71 in February.

In pretty good shape. Started to do some of my own wildlife video two years ago, but realized I had a lot to learn still. Spent a year learning the software and practicing with the camera. Recently acquired a nanoflash. Now I am trying to match the results of the pros -- that is a real challenge! Looking forward to my first real season of trying to put together some wildlife material.

I figure I have another 20-25 years of fun video work left yet.
Alan

21 and just beginning to work with video. (Also my first post.)

You all seem pretty young to me. I am 67 going on 40. I travel every year for a couple of months and make a video of each trip. So far coverered all seven continents and about 80 countries. Been bitten by the video bug since 1995. Currently have three cameras and four computers. The youngsters are not the only tech savvy types around.

John A

34, turning 35 in May

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36 all of a sudden!

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I'm 22, been shooting video since I was 16. Been a member here since I was 20.

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Ya'll are old. I'm 16...

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One of your Golden Oldies. 75 and still trying to travel as much as possible capturing wildlife on canon xl hd1a. Been retired since 67 but thinking of going back to work again, I don't seem to have any spare time now I am retired!!!!!

Nice to see such a young entry ahead of mine. Wish him luck for the future.

greattree.

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20 video is a hobby that i picked up from going on church mission trips... My first was to Mississippi after Katrina in 2006 changed my life. I have never taken any class on film making everything i know i either thought my self or learned from a friend that's been in the film business for 20 some years. I continue to learn and get better every year

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Born in 1979 They say I'm 32 now.

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I have socks older then most of you here and I am wearing them now. ;-P

I am a ripe old 57!

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Judging by my wife's comments about my socks..mine are probably even older.

I turn the dreaded 65 in August.....!! Still do around 30 wedding shoots a year and around 10 -15 Realty shoots a month so I keep busy!!!

NOW ...more importantly.....WHO is going to add up all the ages on all 50 pages of posts and actually calculate an average?????? or are we all too busy shooting video???

Chris

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Can't believe but in 5 days I'll be 30!!! Love it ;)


Www.youmyworld.co.uk

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Twenty three... Start working in production/editing about 2 years ago (wow, just realized how short I've been in this) but I've been slicing in photoshop and editing in whatever I had at the time ever since high school.

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25 years of age here.

Grew up in an AV predominant family so I've been around this for quite some time. Went to school for video production, but it was just community college so I didn't gather a ton of good info, I'm mostly self taught by experience and these wonderful forums.

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I will be 38 in about 2 weeks.

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Well, I'm kind of older @ 61. Although, I still enjoy recording and editing videos.

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63 years young. I have been working in the video business since 1970 and the Sony portapack was introduced, a camera that used 1/2 inch reel-to reel BW tape EIAJ standard. Still have some of the documentaries I did. Now, if I only add a tape player to play them back on.

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hi
no one has posted here for a while, so i thought i'd add my ¢10.... ;-)

57 and counting.

just hope i outlive the rendering, my computer is slower than i am!!!

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69, learning, and applying the Confucian reality, that, in this decade, "...my ears are responsive to the truth". I'm finding plenty on these pages and thanks for the sincerity, courtesy and responsiveness.

Greetings from Kaunas, Lithuania!

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OK, so since we've had another break in the action on this thread, I'm a robust, agile 64! But who's countin' anyway! ;-)

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Born in 1961, making me 52 soon. Blimey. Wish you hadn't asked.

Started school as the Beatles hit the big time, left in the year of punk rock. Worked as a photographer then journalist then magazine editor from 1984 to 2008. Have been trying to reinvent myself as a film-maker (short, commercial, mostly online) since 2009.

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Started in the film business in 1987 and transitioned into corporate video production in 2004. Got my own company now since 2009. Been working in some corner of the industry for all my adult life. Almost went into the IT business in 2003... glad I dodged that bullet!

Ha Ha!

I'm 45.

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let me see ....1,2,3,.........,23,24,25 :)

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34 with more in store :-)

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I guess at 65, I'm still one of the old farts around here. Am I slowing down? God, I hope not. Had to take a few months off last fall when I had to lay my motorcycle down to avoid hitting a black cow on a dark mountain road late at night but after 54 days in the hospital and several months of rehab I'm back behind the camera and putting in long hours at the editing console.

Gearing up to shoot four days of a music festival near the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia next week plus scheduled work on a documentary on the crystal meth problem. I don't feel old...yet.

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Doug, way to go! Great story and good to hear you got over that awful accident. Off-topic, but do you still ride your motorcyle? A little less off-topic, can you transport your camera and some gear on it? I find that I can just squeeze a Strut DVT-4 video case in the space on the saddle between myself and the rear topcase of my Vespa scooter...

I will turn 46 very soon - am from the autumn of 1967, same time as Volkswagen introduced a new version (Mk2) of their "breadloaf" transporter which you occasionally still see in the streets :-)

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Peter: Not cleared to get back on the Harley just yet. Last MRI showed lessons and scarring from the TBI (traumatic brain injury) that I suffered and I'm still trying to get the leg that was broken badly back up to full speed. I hope to. And, yes, I do transport my cameras on the bike. I use a Sportsman bag with padding from a Lowepro bag that I gutted to protect the cameas. I was coming back from an assignment to shoot a high school championship football game when I laid the bike down. The bag, strapped to the luggage rack, never touched the pavement and the cameras (a Canon 5D MKII and 7D) and the lenses were fine. In retrospect the cameras came out far better than I or the bike.

Doug

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old enough to need readers when at this site.

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50 years old for me. Started out with video in the 6th grade editing, videos with Sony AV 3650 Recorder. It was one of the first color VTR's on the market.

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33 for me... ouch had to double check that one. Started as a senior in High School running tapes and various other PA duties on a local multi camera sports truck, and crawled my way up from there.

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40 for me - 41 next month :)

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I'm 75, my life really took off when I retired, having the time to do what I want is great.