Ok Photographers, How old are you?

[YesDear]

I am feeling old, I was cleaning out some old photo stuff and found and old Kodak 18% neutural gray density card and wondered who here could tell our new photographers what that is and what it was used for.

This old card taught me a great deal about exposure and light in the good old days of manual film photography.

Just wondered who would know what it is?

 

[MassJester]

Not so old, I think I bought one just a couple years back--and not for use with film cameras either.

 

[MassJester]

here it is, still available:

http://www.pictureline.com/products/1877/Kodak_Color_Sep._&_Gray_Scale_Sm./

 

[dr_zero]

Well I just had a 25 year class reunion a couple years back if that tells you anything but I remember pascal, Dos, CPM and Hard Drives that had platters bigger than dinner plates

I keep telling them at work though Im too young to be this old LOL

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Well I just had a 25 year class reunion a couple years back if that tells you anything but I remember pascal, Dos, CPM and Hard Drives that had platters bigger than dinner plates

I keep telling them at work though Im too young to be this old LOL

Oh my goodness - I hadn't even thought about pascal in years! And PET computers. COBOL, FORTRAN.....now I'm feeling old.

 

[YesDear]

I wish card was that sophisticated. It is only an 18% grey card, no color separation. AND, I think the card had a 25 yr reunion a few years back as well. I am at my 35th reunion myself, which means I graduated before the invention of the PC, if you take 1975 as that year!

 

[fortheluvofpooh]

Still 39

 

[pointandshoot]

18% grey cards and Pascal! Heck, I punched computer cards for RPG programmnig. I do not think they were 18% grey though...but I am.

Chuck

 

[DVC Jen]

I have a grey card as well - a few of them to be honest - and next year I will be ignoring my 25th high school reunion. Not something I want to go back to and or think about all that much.

One thing for all of us to remember - we are not OLD - we are simply accuring acquiring experience and more knowledge.

 

[deletedpenguin]

29 here. Old enough to be blown away that my first computer had a 1.2 gig hard drive with one of those brand spankin' new "Pentium" processors! One of my first thoughts when getting that computer was:

"1.2 gig hard drive? I'll never fill that thing up."

 

[Michele]

I made this an easy question, it's in my sig. Oops, I need to go change that, I had a birthday last week.

But speaking of computers, my Dad was a programmer back in the 70's and I remember visiting him at work, the cold computer room with the big machines with the reels and all the punch cards with holes in them that fed really quickly through the computer (sorry, I don't remember all the terminology).

Then there was the big (it was probably 2 1/2 ft long and a foot wide) portable computer he was able to bring home from work occasionally. It had a modem that we had to plug the phone into, not the phone line, but the actual old style phone reciever. We had to call into the office, wait to hear the modem sound then plug it in, (think 'War Games'). It didn't even have a monitor, just large paper with holes along the side that fed through it. Anything you did typed out on it.

I remember playing a 'computer game', some kind of moon landing simulator, you had to tell it how much thrust etc to give the engines to land your spacecraft on the moon without crashing.

Waaaay before 1.2 gig hard drives, I remember the Commodore 64. And my DH sold computers back in the late 80's when the newest thing was Prodigy, some 'new fangled' software that let you do things like banking over the phone lines through your computer.

Boy....am I old!!

 

[thomas998]

Oh my goodness - I hadn't even thought about pascal in years! And PET computers. COBOL, FORTRAN.....now I'm feeling old.

If it makes you feel better I still remember having to write computer codes on a key punch machine in college... nothing was worse than dropping a stack of cards 4 inches thick and then trying to sort them out again.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

If it makes you feel better I still remember having to write computer codes on a key punch machine in college... nothing was worse than dropping a stack of cards 4 inches thick and then trying to sort them out again.

Thank you - I'm better now. I never would have survived those computer programming classes with cards - I drop too much!

 

[MassJester]

If it makes you feel better I still remember having to write computer codes on a key punch machine in college... nothing was worse than dropping a stack of cards 4 inches thick and then trying to sort them out again.

Me too! Waterloo Fortran -- WATFOR and WATFIV

 

[jann1033]

18% grey cards and Pascal! Heck, I punched computer cards for RPG programmnig. I do not think they were 18% grey though...but I am.

Chuck

that's what hair dye is for

holy crow i'm closer to my 40th high school reunion than my 25th..now that's old! I'd have to have graduated before i was even born to be considered "young" according to that. we used these antiques called slide rules and typewriters in high school, calculators were the size of George Costanza's wallet and a transistor radio was " AM " only and played the Beach Boys but the accessory to have, as were houndstooth checked pants( so Dave Clark Five ish) which none of you babies probably even ever heard of ... so long before computers were more than a glimmer is someones' eye

 

[handicap18]

WOW talk about bringing up the past.... geezz. I took BASIC and PASCAL in high school and COBOL in college. Thats about the only place I used them though. I took a few other computer classes in college. We had to put everything on the original "floppy" floppy disk. Even with all that I still did all my term papers and stuff on an electric typewriter (though in high school we learned on manual typewriters. The electric one's still were expensive and they didn't have a lot of them, so that was only for the Typing IV class if you went that far).

I also remember in high school the photography teacher got a new computer in his classroom and it was the first time I saw spell check in use.

Our first "computer" consisted of a keyboard, our TV and a cassette player that hooked up between the keyboard and the TV. My mother tought herself to type with that "computer". That right around the time the Commodore 64 came out. But that was to expensive for us.

One of my first roommates out of college bought a new Gateway in early '96 and he upgraded the hard drive to 1GB. He has the exact same quote as DeletedPenquin: "I'll never fill that up". IIRC he payed $1500 for that computer.

As for age, well I'll be 39 for the first time,,,, next year.

 

[jann1033]

WOW talk about bringing up the past.... geezz. I took BASIC and PASCAL in high school and COBOL in college. Thats about the only place I used them though. I took a few other computer classes in college. We had to put everything on the original "floppy" floppy disk. Even with all that I still did all my term papers and stuff on an electric typewriter (though in high school we learned on manual typewriters. The electric one's still were expensive and they didn't have a lot of them, so that was only for the Typing IV class if you went that far).

I also remember in high school the photography teacher got a new computer in his classroom and it was the first time I saw spell check in use.

Our first "computer" consisted of a keyboard, our TV and a cassette player that hooked up between the keyboard and the TV. My mother tought herself to type with that "computer". That right around the time the Commodore 64 came out. But that was to expensive for us.

One of my first roommates out of college bought a new Gateway in early '96 and he upgraded the hard drive to 1GB. He has the exact same quote as DeletedPenquin: "I'll never fill that up". IIRC he payed $1500 for that computer.

As for age, well I'll be 39 for the first time,,,, next year.

that hasn't changed.. the computer sales guy told me the same thing...except about 1000 gb... i told him i'd heard that before

 

[tinksdad]

29 here. Old enough to be blown away that my first computer had a 1.2 gig hard drive with one of those brand spankin' new "Pentium" processors! One of my first thoughts when getting that computer was:

"1.2 gig hard drive? I'll never fill that thing up."

That's funny!! I thought the same thing about a 20MB hard drive on my first IBM computer (an upgrade from the CPM, double floppy type)

BTW, I'm only 39.95............. and holding!

 

[YEKCIM]

Old enough to remember 8-Track tapes and only-three-channels-on-the-black-and-white-TV.

~YEKCIM-the-Ancient

 

[DawnM]

I have been 39 for 3 years now....every year it gets better!

Dawn

Still 39