How old are you?

[stewart_photo]

I'm curious about the demographics of those buying Pentax cameras. I'll post another poll seeking the male/female percentage in a couple of weeks. But, in the meantime, how old are you?

By the way, feel free to add a reply with your exact age if you want.

stewart



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[ryan s]

23...but I need to make the message longer, so that's the purpose of this sentence.

[Mikhail]

18! Go me! lol!
Btw this should be a mandatory poll or something as its always nice to know this information and stuff can be done to make the site more accessable\friendly if we have a certain larger age bracket or something.

Thanks

[jbrowning]

45, but I'll be 46 on the 14th.

Jim

LOL

I'm 63 going on 12. If my wife lets me live that long.

[Fritz]

I'm 41.

[dkittle]

Just turned 43 but going on 'teenager' according to my wife...

[roentarre]

I am 31 yr old and getting older each day :P

[monochrome]

52 - and my wife has decided to let me live - i.e. if Pentax is my mid-life crisis, she'll gladly deal with it.

She had expressed concern, since whenever she called my hotel room at 10:15 I was always there and I recently purchased a Honda Accord (of all the boring things).

She wondered where the foolishness would come out. After Pentaxium yesterday (I KNOW I have pictures on the computer, but I HAVE to take new pictures today !) she is satisfied.

[rzarbo]

I turned 50 this past Summer and the k10d was my present.

Robin

[Ash]

31, just like my mate James...

[mtnbearhug]

What the hell... I'll join the fun...

I turned 36 in Feb...

Kim

[Canada_Rockies]

I own a poll in a dbms software forum for being the oldest f>>>, so I might as well try here: I'll be 68 in June.

[ryan s]

Originally Posted by monochrome

She had expressed concern, since whenever she called my hotel room at 10:15 I was always there and I recently purchased a Honda Accord (of all the boring things).

I love my Accord...I'm looking for a different (5spd) 98-00 at the moment. Later, I'm going to get a 90-93 and have a little project car Accords are great...you could always turbo it or, if you have a V6, there's a supercharger kit out there Add some spice to the ride

[stevebrot]

I'm old enough to remember when Pentax was marketed by Honeywell in the US, had ads on the inside cover of National Geographic, and was the camera of choice for anyone who needed state-of-the-art optics in a light, compact, and durable package. Pentax was one of the few brands that offered through the lens metering without expensive accessory prisms.

Canon was sort of an off-brand with a very strange mount (breech-lock) and Exacta was a very real option for people wanting an SLR with professional features. Nikon and Hasselblad were considered the cameras of choice for professionals, but brands such as Topcon (marketed by Besseler in the U.S.) and Minolta were also desirable for serious work. Olympus had yet to develop an SLR. The boutique market was covered by brands such as Miranda and Alpa (Oh, yeh,...Leica too).

Those of us without much money had to make do with cameras from Yashica, Ricoh, Mamiya/Sekor, Petri, and Praktica. 35mm leaf-shutter rangefinder cameras in fixed mount were popular as were big twin lens reflex (Rollei, Yashica, Mamiya, and Minolta). East German lenses were available (including Zeiss Jena), but were considered to be inferior and unpatriotic. Those and no-name Japanese lenses were sometimes re-branded as house brands for the mail-order places under names such as Rexatar, Prinz, Spiratone. Pre-set and manual aperture diaphragms were commonplace and an automatic aperture was a selling point.

From all this talk, you would think that I was from the distant past. Well, pretty distant, I guess. That is the world as it existed in 1968. I am 52 now and was only 13 when I bought my first Yashica Lynx 1000 rangefinder that summer for $25 from my pastor. The next summer I bought my first SLR (Ricoh TLS, $99 mail order from Ritz Camera), and have been taking pictures ever since!

Cheers!

Steve (the old guy...at 52)