Sonnar Brian
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I am the ghost of cameras past.
Cameras, Watches, Pinball Machines and Objectophilia
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I am the ghost of cameras past.
NickTrop
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Wow - you went into the archives with that one. Yeesh. I didn't deny having it. Somewhere in here I said "self included" might have been in my first post? I didn't deny it. It only strengthens my position as it takes one to know one - no?
Sonnar Brian
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Just click on Profile, and "find threads by user". Two Minutes.
I never associated my camera thing with "objectophilia", still don't.
I believe that your explanation of your own behavior is good, based on prior posts.
The difference: I suspect obsessive compulsive behavior is a better explanation of collecting. I have a 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1943, and two 1945 Carl Zeiss Jena 5cm F1.5's all in Leica Mount that are all slightly different optically and different mechanical construction. If it was "just objectophilia", I would have stopped at the perfect 1943 lens. But I had to collect them all.
I never associated my camera thing with "objectophilia", still don't.
I believe that your explanation of your own behavior is good, based on prior posts.
The difference: I suspect obsessive compulsive behavior is a better explanation of collecting. I have a 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1943, and two 1945 Carl Zeiss Jena 5cm F1.5's all in Leica Mount that are all slightly different optically and different mechanical construction. If it was "just objectophilia", I would have stopped at the perfect 1943 lens. But I had to collect them all.
mooge
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this thread kinda reminds me of this sketch...
isoterica
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House is filled with antiques, cameras, watches, typewriters, printing presses etc.. I think I'm certifiable then?
Taynt3d
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It's all about the inevitable apocalypse... Genetic human instincts tell me to stay familiar with all things analog. 😀
NickTrop
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Soon the Singularity will occur - none of this will matter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJDvdEQJOew
But will the Singularity occur with computers? Nay, I say. I think it will be the merging of humans and digital cameras.
Great Monty Python skit by the way... Don't recall that one. Classic.
Sonnar Brian
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I always told my Dad that HAL and I would be best friends. HAL was misunderstood.
32 years ago, I "Telecommuted to work" over the Internet to connect to an $8M Supercomputer when going to University. It was bigger than the WOPR and Forbin Project combined. When someone asked my Dad what I was doing, they got "He could be out taking over the world for all I know".
The M9 has a 16-bit RISC Renasis processor in it. These days, Good enough for me.
32 years ago, I "Telecommuted to work" over the Internet to connect to an $8M Supercomputer when going to University. It was bigger than the WOPR and Forbin Project combined. When someone asked my Dad what I was doing, they got "He could be out taking over the world for all I know".
The M9 has a 16-bit RISC Renasis processor in it. These days, Good enough for me.
AgentX
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Remember, it's not the focal length that matters in the end; it's the maximum aperture.
jsrockit
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Nostalgia.
mdarnton
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As politely as I can be here: I am not going to wade through five pages of this particular thread, but let me say that yesterday I did slog through 30 pages of the post-your-portraits thread, and I know for sure that whatever has brought people here, it's not photography. It was a eye-opening to see such wonderful equipment, carefully listed, used to take, mostly, such horrible snapshots. People need to look in the mirror and own up to what they are, I think.
The first page here was mostly obscurely deflecting denials, but I do think the OP has something. I have always been fascinated by mechanical things of all sorts, and am the person in the room who is the one with the immediate understanding of how to fix something, no matter whether I've seen one of those before or not. Yup, I sit there and admire the smooth way my lenses focus, with the secure, definite "click" at either end of the range. I do suspect there's another group here, too: those who have to have "the best", whether they understand it or not; I know a couple of Leica people in real life who fit that perfectly.
This sounds really negative, but really, I think people just need accept who they are, and go with that, without guilt. I'm not bothered at all by people who use expensive cameras as jewelry, so why should they be bothered, themselves?
The first page here was mostly obscurely deflecting denials, but I do think the OP has something. I have always been fascinated by mechanical things of all sorts, and am the person in the room who is the one with the immediate understanding of how to fix something, no matter whether I've seen one of those before or not. Yup, I sit there and admire the smooth way my lenses focus, with the secure, definite "click" at either end of the range. I do suspect there's another group here, too: those who have to have "the best", whether they understand it or not; I know a couple of Leica people in real life who fit that perfectly.
This sounds really negative, but really, I think people just need accept who they are, and go with that, without guilt. I'm not bothered at all by people who use expensive cameras as jewelry, so why should they be bothered, themselves?
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not a fetishist, I
not a fetishist, I
Also TL;DR but who cares? Yes, we have many old items we don't use, that just sit on shelves or hang on walls: cameras, lenses, clocks, pots, baskets, weavings, metalworks, instruments, tools, etc. Newer and usable stuff gets used; older and frailer stuff gets admired. And bothersome stuff gets shoved into corners until it's actually needed: watches, phones, medical devices, cars, the sort of stuff that's built much better now than in decades past but that we don't want cluttering-up our lives. So we accumulate the nifty and suffer the necessary. Selah!
not a fetishist, I
Also TL;DR but who cares? Yes, we have many old items we don't use, that just sit on shelves or hang on walls: cameras, lenses, clocks, pots, baskets, weavings, metalworks, instruments, tools, etc. Newer and usable stuff gets used; older and frailer stuff gets admired. And bothersome stuff gets shoved into corners until it's actually needed: watches, phones, medical devices, cars, the sort of stuff that's built much better now than in decades past but that we don't want cluttering-up our lives. So we accumulate the nifty and suffer the necessary. Selah!
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