ALTernate thread: You know you're young when...
 

I ran into a PBS crew shooting on HDV outside of Columbia college yesterday. I was shooting on my EX3 for a mini-documentary I'm working on for a friend's studio. It was just he and I (typical indie crew). I walked up to the guys (all over 50) and made the joke, "Your camera is bigger than my camera."

And none of them responded.

So, "You know you're young" when the union PBS guys don't talk to you.

(sad face)

You Know You're Old When...
 

You still remember how to load, set up and play a Quad.

You edited audio by cutting the tape with a razor blade.

3/4 top loads were the latest, greatest thing.

Your first Still Store could hold 24 SD images!

I still have a video instructional manual from part of my first video kit. The subtitle reads "Videotape: The Communications Medium of the 21st Century!"

Always get a chuckle out of that one.

I have on my shelf a collection of "SUPER 8 MAGAZINES" - In one of them somewhere is an article "Will Video Kill Super 8?" - The answer is a resounding "NO!"

I --honestly-- checked the bottom of a Pentax digital SLR (which I bought later on) to see if it would take a motor winder. Two seconds later, I face-palmed myself. Old film-photography habits die hard, which (in most cases) is a good thing.

Martin

When you find yourself telling the guys at a swish edit facility what all the knobs and switches do on the back of a 7630 u-matic deck, and you end up having to explain 'advance sync', 'color lock', and 'TBC'...

You used ENG cameras where the deck was seperate from the camera. Connected by an XLR cable.

Finally getting the job you always wanted is considered by others to be a "Career Change"

- You know what Fat Angus does (copper bars mostly - anything else risked a guru meditation error)
- You still have the 8" hard sectored floppies for your Aston 3
- You see 151200 think 'what a nice shade of yellow'
- You wonder if the BVE-3000 could be converted to USB
- You miss the 4 little mono CRT monitors in your favourite NLE
- You'd choose Paintbox over Photoshop
- You know how to Quantel out the boom shadow
- You really want an ADO2000 plug-in for FCP

... Ah, but the nurse says I must rest now...

My "state of the art" NLE Amiga Toaster Flyer required 2 SCSI video hard drives. I paid $10,000USD for two 9gig drives.

I'm probably the ONLY digital SLR photographer that carries a Pentax Spotmeter V and a Sekonic L meter, and actually USES them (the DSLR rarely leaves the full manual setting).

I admit it -- I'm old school. I learned my still-photo craft shooting Kodachrome II, with a razor-thin margin for exposure error, and you never knew if you actually got a good shot until days later when your slides got back form Kodak. Rather than shoot loads of digital frames or individually checking the LCD on the camera, I meter, compose, take MAYBE one shot, then move on.

Martin

I can remember lugging around a Nagra "portable" reel to reel audio recording unit.

I could have taken a cassette based "SuperScope" recorder which was much lighter, but I stuck with the Nagra (and its full load of D cell batteries) for the superior recording quality.

Andrew

In that case I guess I should probably call in the carpenter because my first camera was a hand-cranked 9.5mm Pathe Baby - and I still have it in a display case alongside a page from a French magazine of 1928 carrying a full page ad for the damn thing!

.. you know what a 3" IO is (and have used one) ..

.. you still think the quality of 2" tape beats the pants off all these new-fangled formats ..

When your first camera was a Quaker Oatmeal Box Pinhole camera.

So was mine. But that does not make me old. It's just that the person who started this thread must be very young!!!