POLL Your age in 2025

C Sean · Jul 9, 2025

There was a youtube video about the majority of M43 sales come from the older generation according to a camera store employee.

There are people like myself and a friend who choose M43 for it portability rather than weight saving. That said once the majority of small bodies are gone and we are left with bodies like the G9ii/OM1. Might of well just go Full frame and get the better iso improvement especially in the dull or dark winder days.

Austinian · Jul 9, 2025

Guy Parsons said:
jeffharris said:

Who cares? I sure don’t.

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I don't care or really think much about my age, but it is interesting to occasionally see what the age spread is here in this forum, plus a clue to the sum of members who care to indulge in this simple poll.

The only problem is when I visit the doc and raise some health/fitness issue the response always seems to begin with "At your age...."

The docs tell me, "You're in great shape." I'm feeling fine.

Then they say "For a man of your age." Not so fine.

Actually, I'm happy to have as few ailments as I do. Everything works, just not quite as well as it did a couple of decades ago. ;-)

ikolbyi · Jul 9, 2025

C Sean said:
There was a youtube video about the majority of M43 sales come from the older generation according to a camera store employee.

There are people like myself and a friend who choose M43 for it portability rather than weight saving. That said once the majority of small bodies are gone and we are left with bodies like the G9ii/OM1. Might of well just go Full frame and get the better iso improvement especially in the dull or dark winder days.

BryanHL · Jul 9, 2025

SeeingSomeThingsMissingMany said:
There is an aspect of us that is eternal.

You could say the fundamental part...

jalywol · Jul 9, 2025

This tells us more about the readership of this forum than who actually is buying and using the cameras, and for what purposes.

I guarantee you if you took this poll on a Reddit or FB group, you would get a completely different demographic picture from those users, vs the group here.

The thing is, this bodes worse for DPReview than the camera market. When all of us die off, so will DPR, but the gear will still be in use by the younger buyers...who are already elsewhere on line.

-J

ikolbyi · Jul 9, 2025

jalywol said:
This tells us more about the readership of this forum than who actually is buying and using the cameras, and for what purposes.

I guarantee you if you took this poll on a Reddit or FB group, you would get a completely different demographic picture from those users, vs the group here.

The thing is, this bodes worse for DPReview than the camera market. When all of us die off, so will DPR, but the gear will still be in use by the younger buyers...who are already elsewhere on line.

-J

Apparently we think alike because I just stated something similar earlier on a different thread:

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/68347772

KCK14 · Jul 9, 2025

Aha - the Miranda. My First 2 SLRs were an Automex and then the upgraded Senorex. used them for about 12 years till I moved to Olympus OM-1(the real one)

Jaime100 · Jul 9, 2025

Steve_Price said:
Perhaps someone has already mentioned this, but here's my take on it. I'm 88, have enjoyed using cameras since my high school years. By the time I was in college, it was 35mm rangefinders, then on to SLRs. I bought my first M43 about 10 years ago. The attraction was (and still is) the image stabilization and small size and weight.

The sky isn't falling. There must be lots of M43 users who enter the group after middle age.

I think you are right....I am only 69 so still shoot exclusively film 90% of the time. But as I was telling my wife just yesterday.....one day I will be shooting digital 90% of the time and when I do, it will be my OM System products.

Jaime100 · Jul 9, 2025

jalywol said:
This tells us more about the readership of this forum than who actually is buying and using the cameras, and for what purposes.

I guarantee you if you took this poll on a Reddit or FB group, you would get a completely different demographic picture from those users, vs the group here.

The thing is, this bodes worse for DPReview than the camera market. When all of us die off, so will DPR, but the gear will still be in use by the younger buyers...who are already elsewhere on line.

-J

Looking at the demographics, DPReview might have a slow death ....but can DPReview reinvent themselves? Why now have content via all camera makers that involves You Tubers who review gear, review techniques etc.

Why not have DPReview that has live content forums? Maybe they have. But how can DP become more to the liking of the young crowd?

ikolbyi · Jul 9, 2025

Jaime100 said:
jalywol said:

This tells us more about the readership of this forum than who actually is buying and using the cameras, and for what purposes.

I guarantee you if you took this poll on a Reddit or FB group, you would get a completely different demographic picture from those users, vs the group here.

The thing is, this bodes worse for DPReview than the camera market. When all of us die off, so will DPR, but the gear will still be in use by the younger buyers...who are already elsewhere on line.

-J

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Looking at the demographics, DPReview might have a slow death ....but can DPReview reinvent themselves? Why now have content via all camera makers that involves You Tubers who review gear, review techniques etc.

Why not have DPReview that has live content forums? Maybe they have. But how can DP become more to the liking of the young crowd?

For starters, they need an app and evolve into a reddit model.

Guy Parsons · Jul 9, 2025

Isola Verde said:
Guy Parsons said:

Yikes, my error. I guess I can be excused because of my age, living in total confusion.

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Well we're all three years older now - indeed I've moved to the next decade group since last time - but am still here, doing my best to keep our local camera dealers in business!

The reward I allowed myself at 60 for quitting tobacco - a day's outlay per week, to be blown on cameras etc - has turned out to be harder to spend than I'd imagined... what with cigarettes here having more than doubled in price in the meanwhile!

I tell myself it's not the same as GAS, and - since your last poll - works out to only two cameras and one lens each year...

Peter

That might prompt me to timeline my camera and lens purchases as my wife keeps gloriously accurate records of all things bought. Maybe today after I finish my other tasks at home. Purchasing has slowed dramatically as I have been in the "good enough" category with gear for quite some time now.

Guy Parsons · Jul 9, 2025

Just checked this morning Sydney time and there's 179 poll responses in a day. Thanks to all for participating and the varied comments. I hope the thread doesn't hit 150 before it has run for enough time to get a good picture of the age spread.

Hope1943 · Jul 9, 2025

I don't worry about my age much, except that my body wants to turn to stone. Philosophy is not my bag. ------ nor is a heavy bag loaded with camera gear.

It takes awhiile to try all the others so naturally we are all older on the m4/3 forum, and I don't much care what the under 30 (or40) group does. Eventually they will come to their senses.

Lepewhi · Jul 10, 2025

Well, I've lived long enough to have found myself in the largest group in this poll, leading me to believe that us old farts don't fancy schlepping extra kilos of gear. Yes, ff is nice to have and definitely a place for it. But, when I see someone carrying one around, my back twinges

JacquesC · Jul 10, 2025

HicHic said:
Guy Parsons said:

HicHic said:

I'm surrounded by relics.

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Often the relics have heaps of life experience and end up buying what works for them and not what is deemed fashionable by the Internet influencers.

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Spoken like a true relic!

I'm also one of the relics - and having a really good time

Isola Verde · Jul 10, 2025

JacquesC said:
HicHic said:

Guy Parsons said:

HicHic said:

I'm surrounded by relics.

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Often the relics have heaps of life experience and end up buying what works for them and not what is deemed fashionable by the Internet influencers.

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Spoken like a true relic!

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I'm also one of the relics - and having a really good time

A whole generation of us, taking the 50 year journey from M42 screw to M43 bayonet?

Peter

HicHic · Jul 10, 2025

JacquesC said:
HicHic said:

Guy Parsons said:

HicHic said:

I'm surrounded by relics.

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Often the relics have heaps of life experience and end up buying what works for them and not what is deemed fashionable by the Internet influencers.

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Spoken like a true relic!

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I'm also one of the relics - and having a really good time

That's awesome!

Jaime100 · Jul 10, 2025

HicHic said:
JacquesC said:

HicHic said:

Guy Parsons said:

HicHic said:

I'm surrounded by relics.

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Often the relics have heaps of life experience and end up buying what works for them and not what is deemed fashionable by the Internet influencers.

Click to expand...

Spoken like a true relic!

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I'm also one of the relics - and having a really good time

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That's awesome!

Just think of the history of cameras we have been thru....Amazing the knowledge we have!

Kodachromelover · Jul 10, 2025

I'm 77 today!

I use the EM1 MkIII with the Oly 12-100 and two spare batteries. Very rarely do I add the Oly 9-18. All that in a ThinkTank mirroress mover 20i.

I put the Think Tank in a 20 euros Chinese shoulder bag in which I hold a bottle of water, biscuits, a flashlight, my keys and if necessary a travel guide.

That's all!

Mark Ransom · Jul 10, 2025

KCK14 said:
A common irony. I have funds to buy any ridiculously priced camera I want, but I'm no longer doing anything beyond the trip to the grocery store and doctors office. So I'm not able to justify a new toy. Pen F and EM-1 II shall be it for me.

I have enough money to buy any camera I want. But I couldn't afford the divorce that would follow.

**POLL** Your age in 2025