Behavioral patterns of rangefinder users

Behavioral patterns of rangefinder users

  • I wear an electronic watch

    Votes: 107 25.4%

  • I wear a mechanical spring watch (self winding or not)

    Votes: 196 46.6%

  • I do not wear a watch

    Votes: 137 32.5%

  • I own a car with manual transmission

    Votes: 195 46.3%

  • I drive an automatic car, but wish they made it with manual

    Votes: 52 12.4%

  • I drive automatic and prefer it this way

    Votes: 109 25.9%

  • I am self employed

    Votes: 143 34.0%

  • I work in a small business (<100 people)

    Votes: 77 18.3%

  • I work for a large business or government agency (non-academic)

    Votes: 119 28.3%

  • I make my own investment decisions

    Votes: 213 50.6%

  • I want an investment advisor or mutual fund manager to make decisions

    Votes: 52 12.4%
  • Total voters
    421
Sustich said:
On the employment question there is no option for retired although I suppose one could call that "self-employed." I pay myself nothing more than minimum wage, the rest of my income held in reserve just in case a camera or lens deal that speaks to comes around.
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I guess you could put what you did last, or for most of your working life. But employment category is botched, I shouldn't have added it. Naturally, many people here are professional photographers at least some of the time. So the self employed category will be larger than in general population.
 
Quartz timex with hands. loses 10 sec in 6 months when I reset seasonal time change $35

Had many manual tranny. Wife can`t drive it. Chicago drivers try to run into rear when you depress clutch. My Buick and Impala only come automatic.

Went to a wedding in St Louis once. Brides father asked me to drive the brides maid car to reception because only I knew how to drive manual. Hour drive across town and I could not figure out how to turn on lights. All I needed was to get stopped. Car from Minnesota, I did not know who owned it, I had an Illinois license, and was in Missouri. The only good thing I had in my favor was car thieves don`t wear suits.

I make some decisions. Normally dividend paying stock only.
Another bunch is with Fidelity fund that is managed like a hedge fund where they harvest gains and balance with loses.
Taxes are low. You will not find it on the website so do not look.
 
I wear a $29.95 Timex Expedition watch that has hands on it and shows the day of the month. I drive a 14 year old Lexus RX300 SUV that runs like new and has a automatic transmission. I am retired. I shoot with a Leica IIIc, M2, M3 or M4 depending on what I want to carry with me that day. I used Nikon SLRs for about 30 before switching to a Leica Rangefinder camera. Now I use a Sony NEX 7 and a A7r for digital work. - jim
 
I wear a watch every day. Either my automatic Rolex, solar Seico or my Apple Watch. Apple being worn most at the moment.

Drive a stick and ride a motorcycle, love shifting.

Work for a corp but also do consulting.

Investments - Handle myself (not often enough!)
 
I like rangefinders, not because they are old fashioned and mostly mechanical, but because they fulfill my photographic needs. I am not generally a control freak, but I can usually select focus and exposure to produce photographs more to my liking than can automatic focus and exposure.

As for other devices, such as automobiles or watches, I like whatever is least intrusive on my lifestyle. I drive a pickup truck with automatic transmission, and I don't wear a watch.

Moreover, I hate trying to profile people as if we are automatons with a finite number of distinguishing characterictics, not that I think this is the purpose of the thread.
 
I use my Leica M for BW film.
I prefer film, but reality on a fixed income makes digital color a happy meal.
I no longer drive nor need a one, with the abundance of public transport in Toronto.
Actually I always hated driving, prefer to be passenger and take photos..
Watches, whatever.Mechanical, Quartz..all the same.
I do not have a cell phone.
I mistrust all computers, making film very important.
Once developed it is a tangible, hold in my hand, see with my eyes.
Making a generalization of RFF users is silly and impracticable.
 
Roger Hicks said:
You are still using a quartz watch you got 47 years ago, then? 'Cos I am: my Omega Seamaster 30 (1968) works fine.

Cheers,

R.
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Ah!
the beauty of obsolescence..
i am a retired master watchmaker..
Quartz was introduced, for greater accuracy and getting rid of all those pesky, live for ever, mechanical movements..
I assembled one of the 1st Swiss Quartz, getting the watch as a gift.
18 months later, a plastic part broke in the calendar.
i tried to order the part/another movement, whatever.
I was informed it was now "Obsolete".
It is my belief and with experience, that within the IC circuit, there is another timer, that stops working after a certain time..
So to FINALLY answer your question. NO!
my old mechanical watches wok fine, Thank you.
A RAF issue Jaeger-Le-Coultre pocket watch(1940's),
Buren ultra flat gents(21st present parents),Citizen Auto wind.
My Omega Speedmaster and Heuer Self wind chronograph(rare) gifted to my son-in-law.
No quartz watch will outlast any good mechanical movement.
The States with their Elgin, Hamilton and Waltham pocket watches will never be equaled. Said to me at Patek in Geneva..
Look at Leica with digital..
 
[*]Use a rangefinder ..... as well as other types of cameras
[*]Do not wear a watch or any other type of jewelry
[*]Owned manual transmission cars since the mid 80's
[*]Never have been self employed and have worked for Federal, State, and City governments, large corporations, as well as a start-up in the 90's.
[*]Investment portfolios have always been managed


My experience is that all types of people use rangefinders, all types of people distrust some aspects of social order and technology, and all types of people are specific sort of control freaks.
 
All of you with those mechanical DE in USA, can be justly proud!
Yes, It was at Patek, that I was told, they, Elgin, Hamilton, Waltham would never be equaled or had been!
So everyone using and collecting, ENJOY.

I started digital photography, due to pro needs in 2005.
I have gone thru 7~8 PC's as technology obsoleted, till now!
In my cameras, all the electronics have been the casualties.(mostly fatal).
2 drives stopped functioning, causing loss..
I now use the Memory cards as added backup, as they are cheap enough.

Film and the needed chemicals keep going up in price..
I see eventually, I will be unable to continue.
Guess it will be time to use pencil, pen and paper..
 
My wife would criticize me for always "jumping" from one hobby to the next.

I've admittedly had some flights of fancy. Scuba diving (and underwater photography) was a very serious hobby of mine. But living in NYC didn't allow me to dive too much, so I gave that up. But the photography remained. And 7 years later, I am still in love.

Due to the passion and experience, "what I want" out of photography has narrowed. And herein lies my desire for control. If you think rangefinder owners are control freaks, talk to a guy that shoots a lot of 8x10s.

Anyway, I am not a control freak about anything else aside from my job and my photography.

I also love mechanical watches. I have helped found two companies but currently work at someone else's startup. I used to own a manual transmission Mini Cooper and loved it. Now I am car-less.

And, as others have said, I don't like pigeon holing myself or others into some box, but I'm essentially corroborating your behavioral pattern study here.


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krötenblender said:
You are completely off... I don't wear any watch, working for one of the biggest automotive supplier companies in the world (not CEO...) and I don't even own a car (neither manual nor auto-transmission - heck, I proudly don't even have a drivers license... 😀 ), and I don't care about investment-decisions at all.

I'm just watching the world around me, and take pictures of it with RFs.
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Hut ab, Krötenblender!

I think you got it right!!

Me, I got no car, or rather I got a lot of the biggest cars in Luxembourg-City, with a driver (bus), no watch, and no rangefinder either. I got my Fuji X-E1 and that's all.
 
I wear an automatic watch as my main wear - an orient dress watch which is inexpensive, japanese made and accurate. I like the fact that I don't have to stuff around with batteries.

I only drive manual cars. Grew up in drifting and racing, and driving is probably my biggest love. Currently driving a little suzuki jimny 4wd in manual with some mods.

I work part time for a transport company and also work as a freelance photographer. I want to be working completely for myself. I don't like giving other people the power of my income or hours.

I don't make enough for investment decisions but would most likely make my own. I like being in control and taking responsibility for my decisions.

I think you're bang on right with your analysis. I'll add I'm turning 28 this month.
 
5 for 5. Not a control freak, just someone who likes to be able to exercise control when necessary. 90+% of the time my rangefinders are in aperture priority. But I also like slrs, tlr etc in manual mode...
 
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