Are YOU an ADDICT?

[Heath]

I too am addicted. I have only been addicted for about a year. I can quit, but I don't want to. And no-one can make me quit. I will go down screeming if they try. I like the big buzz from a medium format folder. I have 7 of those to fuel my habit for a while. Rangfinders are a relative new high for me. I have 8 of those baby's. SLR's, I have 5 of them. 2 TLR's and 5 box cameras. 1 Polaroid and 6 viewfinder cameras. Plus 4 cameras that need to be fixed. My photographic accessories are too numerous to count. I have flashes, flash accessories, studio strobes, lenses, cases, lightmeters and numerous books on photography.

This is one addiction I DO NOT want to kick.

Heath

 

[rbiemer]

Cameras? What cameras? Oh, those cameras. Umm, they're not mine I'm, umm, keeping them for a friend. Yeah, that's the ticket! I'm keeping them for,ummm,my friend Morgan Fairchild! Really they aren't mine. I don't even need 'em. No. really. Watch, I'll set them down on this shelf over here and I won't miss 'em at all. Wait, that one might fall. Let me just rearrange this shelf a little.
Shutter noise? What are you talking about? No I did not just take a picture.Ok, maybe one-- but all my friends are doing it and I just needed to take the edge off.
Yes they are too my friends.I can quit whenever I want.
What's in my pockets? Ummm, nothing really. Fine. I'll empty them. See? I told you nothing just some short dated tri-x. Not the hard stuff. Well except for that 120 400UC and Scala. No that's not EIR it just looks like it.
Sob. Hi, MY name's Rob and I'm an addict. 🙄

 

[Pherdinand]

Excuse me but i see no problem 🙂

 

[Pherdinand]

I also have thought about the porSche...weird.

the only thing worse is being broke, destitute, and having an inactive sex life. 😀 oh wait, wrong forum! 😉

What's that, 'inactive sex life'??? I thought you either have a sex life or you don't but it can't be existing and inactive.
Hmmm, maybe i should not ask here for the details.

 

[ent2b]

I also have thought about the porSche...weird.



What's that, 'inactive sex life'??? I thought you either have a sex life or you don't but it can't be existing and inactive.
Hmmm, maybe i should not ask here for the details.

au contraire mon frere. i beg to differ. without delving/grossing ppl out too much, the drive can exist but one can choose simply to ignore it. but then again, i could say poh-tay-toe and you can say poh-TAH-toe. 😛

 

[RubenBlaedel]

I was not an addict until I joined this forum only 3-4 month ago

need I say more

 

[nickchew]

So many addicts... sigh... we need to have a CA group (Cameraholics Anonymous).

Nick

 

[cp_ste.croix]

it's not a habit, it's cool, i feel alive, if you don't have it you're on the other side
i'm not an addict, baby that's a lie...

I love and hate all of you people.

Seriously, I am addicted, but it's like I'm a kid at fat camp looking at a betty crocker advert. Sigh.

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

I am NOT addicted. In the last week I have only bought a Canon P, a Canon Canonet 28, a Perkeo 1, an Olympus RC, a black Yahica MG-1, and a Fujica V2.

I gave away an Argus C3. See, I am not crazy!!

Support Mental Health or I will KILL You!!!

Wayne

 

[RObert Budding]

I can quit any time that I decide to quit. It's easy - I've quit hundreds of times.

Robert

 

[Richard Black]

I am recovering...a new skin on the outside of a classic camera. Fooled ya'. Actually, I am giving away a Z-6 to a needy member of this forum. You see he has a J-8 but needs an FSU body. I have the body and don't use it, that's abuse guys, so I am sending to him in hopes it gets a new home. Now, that's the story I'm telling my wife, what shall I order now? L-M2?

 

[Honu-Hugger]

I can quit any time that I decide to quit. It's easy - I've quit hundreds of times.

Robert

😀 I caught up with an old friend and asked what was new. He said that he'd quit smoking...again. He has "quit" at least five or six times that I know of. 😀

 

[rbiemer]

😀 I caught up with an old friend and asked what was new. He said that he'd quit smoking...again. He has "quit" at least five or six times that I know of. 😀

Smoking is seriously tough. Encourage your friend to keep quitting. My dad smoked for about 60 years and I lost count how many times he quit before the final time. He quit almost two years ago now and if he had still been smoking last fall when he had a major heart attack he would not have survived either the attack or the bypass surgery after. He is just now starting to feel healthy. I was very impressed when he told me he was going to keep up the workouts he had been doing for the physical thearapy. This from a guy who said he had enough running and calisthenics for a lifetime while he was a Marine during the Korean war.(His specific expression was rather more graphic but I'll keep this post rated PG. The word rhymes with firetruck 😀 )
Rob

 

[RubenBlaedel]

My dad quit smoking a long time ago - when he was an editor ad a newspaper - he did 60 + Pall Mall a day - anyway the last couple of years he has been feeling worse and have had a hard time breathing but has forced himself to work out 3 times a week. He is 88 now - but just before easter he was having such a hard time breathing that he went to the local hospital. They were very brutal and said that he might as well get used to die because the would not operate on a guy that old. Fortunatly he is stubborn and whent to a large hospital and the rushed him in as the had a concelled operation 3 days later - they did a triple bypass and sendt him home 5 fives later! - They told him that because he had been working out his physical shape was so good that they could do the operation with little risk!
He is ofcause having some pains after being cut up but he feels much better now 3 weeks after the operation -- one thing I noticed is that he is mentally much more allert - like he became 20 years younger - probably his brain that gets more ozygen 🙂 anyway he has a thing for bengal cats and whants to do a book on them (he has writen a lot of books on animals and nature) but did not find the leica minilux zoom my mom gave him for his 85 th birthday apropriate to take pictures of the cats so yesterday I drove him to copenhagen and he got himself a digital slr from canon and a couple of lenses - he stated something like " just because I am an old f... it does not mean I cant use new technology" So why am I writing this - Quit smoking, Work out and keep buying cameras until you drop ! cheers Ruben

 

[akalai]

...mmm addiction, perhaps. How about addicted to a lost cause?

Perhaps its best to say I am on a mission to find a 21mm f4.5 Biogon that I can afford...that's my Holy Grail! 🙂

Sure I could (if I had the money) plonk the cash down at some shop that sells them for like a grand but where is the fun in that when I am holding out on finding one in a Salvation Army shop! Besides all the old Nanas know me by name now...haha...wow, free tea for a lifetime!!!

AKALAI

 

[nickchew]

So why am I writing this - Quit smoking, Work out and keep buying cameras until you drop ! cheers Ruben

As a physician I cannot agree more!!!!
This is gonna sound like health ed. but research has shown that quitting smoking for 5 years essentially reduces your risk of heart attacks to a level comparable to not smoking.
That means you have more life and more money to spend on cameras and film.. not to mention other less desirable pursuits.

Nick

 

[RML]

ent2b, you just grossed me out! And that takes some doing. 😛

Addiction...? I'm not addicted to buying cameras (though I just ordered an R-D1 and got a Canonet 28 for 3 euro a few days ago) and I'm not addicted to taking photos either. But I really do like it, it gives me peace of mind when I'm agitated, and relaxes me when I'm tired. And it gets me out of the house, which nowadays is even better because my girl comes out with me on her little bike and wants to know about all things nature.

 

[Honu-Hugger]

Smoking is seriously tough. Encourage your friend to keep quitting. My dad smoked for about 60 years and I lost count how many times he quit before the final time. He quit almost two years ago now and if he had still been smoking last fall when he had a major heart attack he would not have survived either the attack or the bypass surgery after. He is just now starting to feel healthy. I was very impressed when he told me he was going to keep up the workouts he had been doing for the physical thearapy. This from a guy who said he had enough running and calisthenics for a lifetime while he was a Marine during the Korean war.(His specific expression was rather more graphic but I'll keep this post rated PG. The word rhymes with firetruck 😀 )
Rob

Good advice and I encourage anyone who is trying to quit. My father quit when I was twelve and he said it was the toughest thing he ever did -- 30 years later he says he still feels a craving if he is around cigarrette smoke. Years ago my grandfather was given six months to live with emphysema -- he quit smoking immediately and lived for many years after. My friend trying to quit is a hospital administrator and knows the dangers as well as anyone, but he really has struggled with quitting. I never started -- tried it once and threw up!!! That was all it took to dissuade me. 🙂 A good Scotch or a cold Guinness on the other hand and I'm completely powerless!!!

 

[jwcat]

I quit smoking and photography twenty five years ago. In the last week I have bought two rangefinders and a J9...I am not taking up smoking again, too expensive. 🙂

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Let's see, I started with an Olympus P&S, then a few years later a Canon 630, half a year later a Tamron telephoto lens, then a month later a Canon Elan IIe (or 50e), soon thereafter a Hasselblad 500C, then a couple of digital P&S, then the Nikon Pronea S, then a Canon 10D, then the Canon 28-135 IS, then the Canon 50 f/1.4 prime, soon after than the Canon 17-40 L, soon after that, the Tamron 28-75 Di, not a moment too soon, a Franka IIIL (w/Schneider lens) rangefinder MF, then after that a Leica R4 with the 50 f/2 Summicron-R, soon after that the Leica R5, that same month I got the Pentax 645, which I then exchanged for the Leica M6 with the 50 f/2 Summicron-M (tabbed version); two weeks later I fall in love with the Summitar (post-war) and a month later I get a 90mm Elmarit-M (first version), which I barely chose over a post-war 90mm Elmar.

I'm still hunting for the "right" Summarit. Am I an addict? Nah. Just dedicated, who finally tasted the freedom of being debt-free (and I'm in danger of being tempted into falling into debt, but I do have *some* will in me!)

Don't think I'm rich; this addiction has made me, in the past six months, cut my entertainment allowance down to zero in some weeks, and for a few weeks I literally ate PBJ sandwiches for dinner.

Test time is over, though...I am beginning to enjoy taking pictures once again; that's the only cure (until someone lends me another lens...good thing a friend of mine has absolutely refused to let me lay hands on his Noctilux for even a split second).