boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
Together is better.
Pál_K
Cameras. I has it.
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From the Zella-Mehlis region of Germany, a 7x57 from the 1930's. The wood is mine.
From the birth of Yugolsavia in the late 1940's, as noted in the crest, a Zastava M48:
The legendary Swedish M96B, 1922:
AK: Two Egyptian, one Romanian, one Chinese 56S-1.
From the Zella-Mehlis region of Germany, a 7x57 from the 1930's. The wood is mine.
From the birth of Yugolsavia in the late 1940's, as noted in the crest, a Zastava M48:
The legendary Swedish M96B, 1922:
AK: Two Egyptian, one Romanian, one Chinese 56S-1.
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Travel & photography.......Maybe life is a hobby 
The Spastic Image
Established
Zastava, Egad. The company who built the "Yugo" car.Had a FAL. Prefer my Zastava ZPAP M70 AK
The Mauser in 7x57 and the 1898 Kraig NRA carbine are more fun at the range though.
Pál_K
Cameras. I has it.
Not the same company at all.
Zastava Automobiles made the car.
"Zastava" in Serbian means "flag"; it has been used by other companies as well. Maybe it reflects or reflected post-WWII patriotism.
boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
I understand the fascination with guns. I trained on the M1 and was assigned an M14 while serving. I turned it in to Supply when I rotated back to the US and mustered out. I have not felt the need for a firearm since.
Pál_K
Cameras. I has it.
I forgot these earlier,
Yamaha Tenor Sax, 1971:
My father's German violin and bow, c 1900:
(obviously the case is new) I am learning to play this. It is hard.
A Selmer Paris metal Bb clarinet, 1929:
(some people confuse these with a soprano sax; Selmer, HN White, and Bettony were respected silver clarinets; others were mediocre and have little value today).
Yamaha Tenor Sax, 1971:
My father's German violin and bow, c 1900:
(obviously the case is new) I am learning to play this. It is hard.
A Selmer Paris metal Bb clarinet, 1929:
(some people confuse these with a soprano sax; Selmer, HN White, and Bettony were respected silver clarinets; others were mediocre and have little value today).
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Vince Lupo
Whatever
I think I pair two ‘hobbies’ (maybe three?) with photography, but I think they all intersect.
The first is birdwatching. My wife is much more of a birder than I am, although I do appreciate watching the behaviour of birds. We seem to get quite a nice variety in the backyard, and this year we had at least three different nests going simultaneously (Robin, Catbird, House Wren). Nice to know that our backyard is agreeable to these nesting birds (we don’t have any lawn, if that matters at all).
The second thing, which I think ties into the first, is gardening. Here again, my loving wife is much more attuned to this than I am, but I enjoy helping her out and of course seeing the results. I walk the garden every morning and evening, and you’d be surprised what you notice from day to day. I’d have thought that I would’ve gotten tired / bored of the same confined space, but nope. Check out Richard G’s initiated Hasselblad thread and you’ll see some of the results of my garden wandering.
Finally, nature walks. And that definitely goes hand in hand with birdwatching. I find them to be very therapeutic and they help alleviate the stress of running a commercial photography business.
We’re planning on moving permanently to our eastern Ontario property next year, where we’ll have the largest ‘garden’ we’ve ever had (almost 14 acres). My hope is that my next ‘project’ will be documenting our life on the property and in the region. Who knows, my Mapping the West might just morph into Mapping the Ontario East.
Much of my birdwatching photography consists of my wife looking for/at birds. Hmm maybe a whole other project in itself?
Howard County6a by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
The first is birdwatching. My wife is much more of a birder than I am, although I do appreciate watching the behaviour of birds. We seem to get quite a nice variety in the backyard, and this year we had at least three different nests going simultaneously (Robin, Catbird, House Wren). Nice to know that our backyard is agreeable to these nesting birds (we don’t have any lawn, if that matters at all).
The second thing, which I think ties into the first, is gardening. Here again, my loving wife is much more attuned to this than I am, but I enjoy helping her out and of course seeing the results. I walk the garden every morning and evening, and you’d be surprised what you notice from day to day. I’d have thought that I would’ve gotten tired / bored of the same confined space, but nope. Check out Richard G’s initiated Hasselblad thread and you’ll see some of the results of my garden wandering.
Finally, nature walks. And that definitely goes hand in hand with birdwatching. I find them to be very therapeutic and they help alleviate the stress of running a commercial photography business.
We’re planning on moving permanently to our eastern Ontario property next year, where we’ll have the largest ‘garden’ we’ve ever had (almost 14 acres). My hope is that my next ‘project’ will be documenting our life on the property and in the region. Who knows, my Mapping the West might just morph into Mapping the Ontario East.
Much of my birdwatching photography consists of my wife looking for/at birds. Hmm maybe a whole other project in itself?
Howard County6a by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
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Out to Lunch
Ventor
Most, if not all the Selmer saxes are high-value instruments. I recently found that the Selmer Super Action Serie II alto sax is worth more today than what I paid for it 29 years ago. Cheers, OtL
Pál_K
Cameras. I has it.
Both my receivers are .308 -- it's not just a designation difference: they actually are different physically. .308 chambers are tighter than 7.62x51mm chambers. Just like .223 is tighter than 5.56x45mm. The reason is that, in combat, a more generously dimensioned chamber allows for more reliable feeding.
Right you are!
The Selmer saxophone has got to be the equivalent of the Leica in terms of desireability and gain in value. All of the chatter people have over Leica, good and bad, applies to Selmer as well. It's fun to follow it all.
Yours is an early one - you are fortunate!
I was given this list a few years ago on the sequence of Selmer models, sadly it does not have dates:
This is the one I would love to have - but I am just not good enough of a player to deserve it:
It's a Selmer Reference 36 tenor. Over $9k.
Taipei-metro
Veteran
Leave it to Beaver
JeffS7444
Well-known
I guess you could say that one of my hobbies involves "recycling".
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Rob-F
Likes Leicas
Growing roses. Jeeping. Audio. FM tuners and FM listening, DX (receiving FM stations at a distance) Setting up antennas to try out for distance reception. Watches. Collecting Cross ballpoint Century Classic pens. Fountain pens, mostly Pilot.
Dogman
Veteran
Pal_K, you are a true Renaissance Man. (Sorry...I don't know how to make accent marks.)
And, yes, I did reload for several years but it was kinda boring. Then I got married and had to share my space and keep a happy environment at home.
And, yes, I did reload for several years but it was kinda boring. Then I got married and had to share my space and keep a happy environment at home.
JoeV
Thin Air, Bright Sun
The Spastic Image
Established
Brau as in Bier. German or Schulz Brau preferred.
paulfish4570
Veteran
gorgeous ...
Dan
Let's Sway
Pál_K
Cameras. I has it.
DX ("distance") has long been a hobby with AM listeners. AM radio stations reduce power at night (otherwise their signals would bounce too far off the ionosphere and interfere with distant stations on the same frequency; that's not a problem during the day). So, it's challenging to hear really distant AM stations. I was surprised to hear KFI 640 (Los Angeles) one evening on my car radio while travelling through southern Oregon.
Another form of DX is finding longwave beacons. They identify in Morse Code. They don't transmit with a lot of power, so that's where the challenge is. However, a decent but inexpensive portable shortwave radio can be used to hear them if it also receives longwave bands. From Oregon years ago I could hear the PDX longwave beacon on 333Hz; it identified as "IA", which I took to mean "International Airport". I heard one in Canada, too.
Info here:
raydm6
Yay! Cameras! 🙈🙉🙊┌( ಠ_ಠ)┘ [◉"]
I casually do some SWLing using a portable Sony ICF-SW7600GR and was able to pull in stations from Spain and Romania from the east-cost USA (Boston) during daylight hours. Pretty wild what’s out there in the airwaves.