sdai Posted September 7, 2007 Share #21 Posted September 7, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) No surprise in the results ... kids can not afford a Leica, grand daddies find too difficult to use a Leica. LOL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Hi sdai, Take a look here Poll: Average age of L - Forum users. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
hector_jorge Posted September 7, 2007 Share #22 Posted September 7, 2007 I agree. That poll could be more representative. I bought my first Leica (a Leicaflex SL2) at 46. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flavio Posted September 7, 2007 Share #23 Posted September 7, 2007 I bought my first Leica at 29 (a Leicaflex SL2, for me too, with a 60 Macro Elmarit that I still use). Now I am in the winning poll area - 27.27% :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubice Posted September 7, 2007 Share #24 Posted September 7, 2007 I would like to see another pole asking the age when someone first began using a Leica camera. When I was 14 years old, I found a Leica IIIb in a clothes cabinet at home, while searching the house for potential Christmas presents. That was my introduction to photography, a 135mm Elmar and 35mm Jupiter followed and I have never looked back. The lenses are of course long gone, but I still own the camera - it is in a pretty sorry state and beyond economical repair, having been through hell and back. Best, Jan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianv Posted September 7, 2007 Share #25 Posted September 7, 2007 My daughter first shot with an M3 when she was 5. And a Nikon SP when she was 6. Before that, I held her back to the Kodak Retina IIIS. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
k_g_wolf ✝ Posted September 7, 2007 Share #26 Posted September 7, 2007 TO THE MODERATORS: Indeed a great idea above: Pleeeeeease submit an additional poll where everyone interested can submit his/ her AGE when STARTED and the number of years of taking photographs with LEICA-cameras. With me: I began at the age of 22 (with a then brandnew LEICA M 4) and I use LEICA cameras - and nothing else to be honest - for 38 years. AND I hope for quite a few more to come, LEICAS and years that is. Best Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marknorton Posted September 8, 2007 Share #27 Posted September 8, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Looks like a fine example of a normal distribution to me... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shootist Posted September 8, 2007 Share #28 Posted September 8, 2007 Well the first time I held a Leica was in 1972, a used M3 in the camera store I worked in. I barrowed it for the weekend to check it out. I shot 3 rolls of film with it and developed them on sunday night. When I got to work the next day I asked the owner what he wanted for the camera and 50mm Summicron. I would like to say I still have it but the M3 I now own is not the same one. I kicked myself in the arss from the day I sold that first M3 until I bought another. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
christer Posted September 8, 2007 Share #29 Posted September 8, 2007 I am pleased to see that I am, for once, among the top ten. Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
klaush Posted September 8, 2007 Share #30 Posted September 8, 2007 I bought my first M3 in 1967 being in my early twenties. Meanwhile I use a M6, will be M8 soon. Klaush Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEd Posted September 8, 2007 Share #31 Posted September 8, 2007 ....much about nothin'......... . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steamboat Posted September 9, 2007 Share #32 Posted September 9, 2007 I would like to see another pole asking the age when someone first began using a Leica camera. Yes. I was wondering about that, too. I've owned and used Leica M's since 1966 when I was a mere lad of 18. 'Bought with money earned freelancing for local newspaper. Great fun. My first post on L-camera forum. Many thanks, John Fulton, Fort Worth. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustafasoleiman Posted September 10, 2007 Share #33 Posted September 10, 2007 I forgot how old I am... why am I writing this... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
azzo Posted September 10, 2007 Share #34 Posted September 10, 2007 Hey Andy, i've a question. If I vote say today, it's as if i'm cheating. The reason is that in approx 2 months time, i'll fall under another age group. So, should I vote in the bracket that i'm today or in the next age bracket ? Please say..." Vote as you are today"...it makes me feel better...honestly Azzo EDIT ps A year today...member of this fantastic Forum Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tummydoc Posted September 10, 2007 Share #35 Posted September 10, 2007 It's easy to get the impression that Leica users are an aging demographic...Yet the younger cohorts are seemingly well represented! The poll is entitled Average Age of L-Forum users. If you get any impression from it as regards the demographic of Leica users as a whole, it's entirely un-reliable. I would like to see another pole asking the age when someone first began using a Leica camera. Well it'd have to have a choice of "not yet begun" And that would beget a third pole (sic) entitled "How long have you been bashing Leica on internet forums?" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gberger Posted September 12, 2007 Share #36 Posted September 12, 2007 Well, you cvould also poll for the number of years an individual has been using Leicas that he / she owned. I'll start: 62 years (IIIc in 1945 to M7 at present) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
azzo Posted September 12, 2007 Share #37 Posted September 12, 2007 Well, you cvould also poll for the number of years an individual has been using Leicas that he / she owned. I'll start: 62 years (IIIc in 1945 to M7 at present) A SINCERE...Well Done. Azz:) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted September 13, 2007 Author Share #38 Posted September 13, 2007 Hey Andy, i've a question.If I vote say today, it's as if i'm cheating. The reason is that in approx 2 months time, i'll fall under another age group. So, should I vote in the bracket that i'm today or in the next age bracket ? Please say..." Vote as you are today"...it makes me feel better...honestly Vote today - it will make you feel so much better. (If I'd thought about it longer, I'd have made the split so that I fell at the upper end of a lower section, rather than the lower end of an upper one ) EDIT ps A year today...member of this fantastic Forum Is that all? Seems so much longer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted September 13, 2007 Share #39 Posted September 13, 2007 I reckon Ivan really works for the Maltese tourust board and he's only here to encourage us to visit the island <grin> Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theodor Heinrichsohn Posted September 13, 2007 Share #40 Posted September 13, 2007 Well, you cvould also poll for the number of years an individual has been using Leicas that he / she owned. I'll start: 62 years (IIIc in 1945 to M7 at present) Well, I'd like to join you. Leica II with Hektor 2.5/50 from my father. In 1956 I purchased my first Leica with money I earned (IIIf/50 collapsible Summicron). Have graduated through nearly all Leica versions to M8's in 2007. Started SLR's with Nikon F and onwards up to F5. Also use R8 and R9 but no DMR. Leicas - as nearly all forum members will attest to - is an expensive, addictive but also a rewarding hobby (for me). Over 50 thousand slides attest to this nearly life long addiction and many thousands of b&w shots fill boxes with pictures and files with negatives, mostly developed at home. My son is following this addiction as well, having received M5, M6, various lenses and a Hasselblad 2003 FCW etc.from me as encouragement. P.S. I will be 77 this month. Teddy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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