How Old Are We All?

Never mind.

Aah - the Exaktas - I’ve had dozens over the years (still have nine of them!). Quirky, innovative left handed cameras with some amazing contraptions - e.g. the system to allow extension tubes to be used with the external shutter release. Did yours have that little sliding knife to split a roll of film so that the exposed portion could be removed for developing?

Are your hands still improving? If not, you're just going to have to be brave. I have very limited hand movement, and have to mount the camera (A7 IV) on a Manfrotto Margic Arm when using heavier lenses, but I still love to feel it in my paws when using smaller/lighter glass. It's tiresome not easily being able to operate half the controls, but you learn to adapt.

Never mind.

What do these old cameras look like? I've never seen one.

San x

Sorry - deleted

Got a random but kind of appropriate popular culture mental association before bedtime; obviously the answer to "How Old Are We All?" is "Justified & Ancient". Sorry, couldn't resist sharing it ;)

"Justified and young" could be used too x

I don't think so.

It might take a little time for the google bots to find and/or rank threads on dprevived so that they appear on the first page of google searches.

Once they do, then maybe more genuine beginners might find this site and get involved as members.

At the moment if I google search "Why are my photos noisy" the corresponding thread in the Beginners Forum here doesn't come on the first page.

Maybe the Admins and their team will need to allocate more resources to SEO after things settle down here.

Ugh, Google search is effectively ------ at this moment. Basically it's all the content farms that get highlighted nowadays due to them gaming the SEO so hard. It's the reason why I've added "Reddit" or "dpreview" or *insert relavent forum here* nowadays when doing a search.

You're not wrong. I'm finding a lot of the younger photographers on the r/photography subreddit, and their first instinct towards learning something is to ask for a video tutorial on YouTube. Very different from the early web days! I'll bet the percentage of people who know about Discord here is like 10%, and that's another place where I interact with a lot of young photographers.

How old are we? As my wife says, old enough to know better, or too old to be doing that 😂😂😂

Boredom is hell, isn't it!!

I wouldn't know but your post tells me you are speaking from experience.

Right - experience reading this post. I know whose drivel to avoid in the future!

And yet you keep replying :-)

Leitz originally engaged with me with his post directed at me

not the other way around.

I replied as I am entitled to do, am I not?

He then decided to continue his engagement with me and I replied as I am entitled to do, am I not?