Do you have other vices?

[RFluhver]

I'm posting this here because, well, I'm a "Leica man", as it were. But if you're a Nikon man, or Zuiko, or CV, or whatever, then please feel free to respond also.

I'm asking the question because I've recently re-taken up my interest in watches. And I've specifically grown an interest in Panerais! In my research I stumbled across a website where Panerai aficionados post pics of their babies, a bit like our "Let's see your M" thread. And my God, those people are just as bad, if not badder than us folks.

Just get a load of this thread, for instance.

So, to the question. Do you have other vices in addition to your love of cameras?

 

[Livesteamer]

I have a six hundred pound toy train that burns coal. It will pull about six adults or twelve kids on level track. It takes an hour to fire up, an hour to cool down and clean up. I can run about two or three hours before I have to clean the fire tubes and I get incredibly dirty. What a great hobby.

Joe

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

No vices. I cannot afford to collect expensive things, nor can I afford to smoke, drink, use drugs, or chase women.

 

[kshapero]

Serious used bicyclist gear-head.

 

[phaedrus]

Guitars. Playing them, and I must admit also collecting them. See here.

 

[t.s.k.]

Antique hand tools - most from the turn of the last century. No, these are not for show but for use in my line of work. Probably my biggest weakness is chisels and handsaws...roughly 300 chisels in various flavors and a few dozen saws, some dating to the Lincoln era.

Handmade acoustic guitars is another vice. I'm hoping to someday dovetail both addictions and do some luthier work in the future.

 

[huntjump]

drugs and women. Kidding.

Rock climbing is a vice of mine, a relatively new vice though

 

[Athos6]

Brewing beer, and drinking anything I can safely ferment.

 

[Beemermark]

I have a six hundred pound toy train that burns coal. It will pull about six adults or twelve kids on level track. It takes an hour to fire up, an hour to cool down and clean up. I can run about two or three hours before I have to clean the fire tubes and I get incredibly dirty. What a great hobby.

Joe

Now that alright. My biggest is an ALCO A-A about 34". I'd love to see yours. I'm over in Wilmington.

 

[Beemermark]

Motorcycles, toy trains, guns and reloading.

 

[maddoc]

My family, my work, my work, my work .... No spare time & money to do anything else than taking the occasional photo and that is already getting difficult ...

 

[deerstalkr]

Someday, somebody is going to find boxes of junk when I die. I'm a terrible hoarder and collector of things.

Guitars. Playing them, and I must admit also collecting them. See here.

Yep, me too. Alongside lenses, I also have a habit of acquiring musical instruments--primarily guitars and related gear.

I also have a penchant for ball jointed dolls and mechanical watches.

 

[kermaier]

Wine. I've got a 200 bottle temp controlled unit, and I'm constantly running out of room. Fortunately, the procedure for reducing my wine inventory is far more pleasant than reducing my lens count.

::Ari

 

[PhotoMat]

Untitled by PhotoMat2008, on Flickr


DSA SA-58 by PhotoMat2008, on Flickr

Almost as expensive as accumulating Leicas.

 

[RFluhver]

Ahh...guns! I admit than when I was a kid I had possibly an unhealthy fascination for them. Used to buy gun-related magazines. And today I still occasionally log on to YouTube and watch gun walkthroughs. Those .22 Rugers, for instance, are really beautiful.

 

[clicker]

I sure do, early California art and fine English antique silver.

 

[Creagerj]

I love beer. What can I say? I live across the river from the beer capitol of the world.

 

[tbarker13]

Guns as well.
I shoot in competitions on most weekends, either with the International Defensive Pistol Association or the United States Practical Shooting Association.
I also have a fascination with old classic guns.

My competition guns:

A customized Colt 1911 (100 year anniversary model)

A 1917 German Luger

 

[clicker]

Guns suck, unless of course your insecure. Shoot someone with a camera, it's more fun.

 

[mls64]

Italian cars and vintage racing, among other things. Racing makes Leicas seem cheap.
Too many hobbies, too little time and never enough budget.