A camera as a stress toy?

[Ko.Fe.]

Summarit-M 35 2.5 on M4-2 makes me next to horny. I have to feel it. No kid_ding.

 

[back alley]

i used to 'play' with my gear more but i seem to drop things more lately...so no...not anymore.

 

[lxmike]

I plead the fifth.

noted 😀😎

 

[lxmike]

I do this all the time!! But in a way it almost causes me more stress haha, my ocd kicks in and i start imagining that the focus has somehow magically become out of whack in the last 3 hours or that the shutters are changing speed from 125-500. Just read all of my few posts, pretty much all of them are worrying about something that probably isn't a problem at all! But hey the way I see it and I've had this view my whole life is that if you worry about the problems before they are real problems you either A) will be able to fix them quickly and on your own because you have already researched the worst case scenario or B) won't ever have to deal with the problems (almost like an anti-jinx) and yes, i know this sounds ridiculous.

does not sound ridiculous it sounds all to familiar to me

 

[lxmike]

Sometimes I check to see if my mechanical Kalart synchronizer is still in synch with the Compur Rapid shutter on my Voigtlander Bessa RF camera.

Popping off an AG-1 flash bulb is satisfying, at low cost.

If I'm more stressed out, I'll go out and take a meaningless picture of the transformer box or some tree nearby. I must be stressed lately, as I have a whole roll of film of transformer and tree pictures.

a Forrest of pics🙂

 

[lxmike]

In February this year while recovering from surgery I would have 3 or 4 in bed with me focusing on photos on the wall and tripping the shutter. And my shrink said that was normal behavior.

David

if a shrink says its normal then we now have medical endorsement, l am now starting to feel better😀

 

[lxmike]

Contax ST feels big, serious, powerful in the hand. Heavy too. A bull-dog.

Contax Aria is entirely different, light, agile.

l always wanted to see an ST in the flesh😎

 

[lxmike]

uh, I've been playing with a recently purchased FG all day today. Even took some pics of it with my other 'toy'. They make good subjects as they don't complain....about anything.

yes l know what you mean and some cameras are more tactile than others🙂

 

[lxmike]

I have a Zorki-1 that I don't use for anything but snapping the shutter.
Saves wear on the Leica.

what a great idea😎

 

[lxmike]

This goes to the reason I ( and, I suspect, many others) still use film......

Because that is what the cameras we like take. Thirty six brand new sensors, placed in front the film gate one at a time by the flick of a thumb.

an interesting point, thirty six sensors would be expensive😀

 

[lxmike]

Good to hear this from a "serious photographer" (one more accomplished that me, at least).

I wouldn't say that any of my lenses actually produce images of inferior quality, but I definitely bond with cameras for reasons other than the lens, itself.

- Murray

Bond, a good word to use in regards to our cameras, if l do not bond with a particular camera then off it goes

 

[lxmike]

Summarit-M 35 2.5 on M4-2 makes me next to horny. I have to feel it. No kid_ding.

and l thought l had it bad😱

 

[lxmike]

i used to 'play' with my gear more but i seem to drop things more lately...so no...not anymore.

😱 difficult to trip a shutter with a catchers mit on

 

[ForestCap]

film camera is fidget spinner.

 

[lxmike]

film camera is fidget spinner.

nice, l like it😀

 

[petronius]

Have an empty camera near you to play with but also a loaded one - just in case ...

 

[Richard G]

Have an empty camera near you to play with but also a loaded one - just in case ...

Unfortunately accidents can occur in that situation. I expect when the Tri-X is developed from my M2 I am going to have a whole run of clear strips from exercising the shutter in a half case with a lens cap on, not realising that it was more than just air I was winding on. Hopefully I will be wrong about that....I can't believe I could do that, but I also don't recall how the shutter count got to over 20 so quickly. Too many cameras.

 

[webOSUser]

Are cameras with loud shutters more satisfying?

 

[lxmike]

Have an empty camera near you to play with but also a loaded one - just in case ...

a balanced philosophy
😎

 

[petronius]

Shooting frame after frame in a supposedly empty camera is as nice as opening a camera to watch the shutter work and to find out that there is a film in it;-(

I don´t think that a loud shutter is overall more satisfying - it´s the key that makes it good or bad (Nikkormat EL, loud but nice; Canon T70, loud but horrible (IMO))