Do you have other vices?

f6andBthere said:
Getting back on topic ... smoking!

Though that's fast becoming becoming a vice that can empty your pockets faster than being the Leica Man!

And I can't help remembing that 'The Marlboro Man' ultimately succumbed to the effects of this particular vice!
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My old man died at 83, and on his last week he could still hobble across the room to get a cigarette.

You can use that for cold comfort! ;-)

Randy
 
RFluhver said:
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!
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Panerais are great watches, and I own a 8 day GMT. Pretty amazing how a manual winding watch can store all that energy in three barrels and hold the time within seconds every month. That big watch makes a powerful statement, especially on my skinny wrist.

My cheap Rolex is a Sub no-date. Kind of like a pick-up truck or SUV, sturdy, but not as complicated nor as accurate as the Pam.

Also bought the girlfriend two Cartiers. I bought all these watches by taking advantage of two year zero APR offers that made these luxury items that I normally couldn't afford. Glad I took advantage of those offers because they are gone. The monthly payments were like paying down a car loan.

Next obsession is vintage guitars, basses, and vintage tube amps. Oh I forgot a single ended triode 300b tube stereo.

Paul Smith clothing. Designer eyewear. Antique diamond rings.

Retro bicycles now only own three. Use to race but I still am fit and lean. Still bit of a gym junkie.

Most recently got rid of my last car. At one time I owned 5.

All this expensive stuff is really a leftover mark of poverty. I grew up poor and hungry.

Cal
 
I wish I could say something distinctly different, like "I show budgerigars", but my only other vice is fountain pens, which I know is not an uncommon co-vice with rangefinders. I have too many pens, but I write a lot for work, so they all get used.
 
Booze is always fun. I personally prefer bourbon and microbrews, but I'm beginning to come around to wine and Scotch... More expensive, of course. Booze also facilitates my love of listening to music, live or otherwise.

Beyond that, traveling. Is traveling really a vice, though? I want to experience everything I possibly can before the inevitable conclusion to my life, so I try to pack as much traveling, boozing, and photography into my life as time and money will allow.
 
Books. Not first editions or anything truly valuable (though eventually some of the photo books may be worth something), just lots of books, primarily academic (history), but plenty of novels too. I guess it has something to do with growing up without a TV. Last time I counted my library was somewhere north of 6,000 volumes. Makes moving a back-breaking proposition.

EDIT: Lack of time has forced me to give up other activities that I used to be obsessed with: motorcycling, bonsai, fly fishing.
 
flyfishing gear. Flies, rods, and other equipment, and my next pursuit is in the works...wet plate collodion photography. Just took a workshop with Quinn Jacobson here in Denver, CO, and I'm now fully into the possibilities of glass plate ambrotypes
 
Vice? My vice is being anti-vice. Value as vice. I buy good stuff used and then ponder why people pay triple or quadruple for the extra 5% "utility" of something "better".

I ride an old bike that was made in Japan. I have an old guitar that was made in Japan. And I have old cameras that were made in Japan. And one in Canada.

I guess my only vice is not having enough money!:angel:
 
benlees said:
Vice? My vice is being anti-vice. Value as vice. I buy good stuff used and then ponder why people pay triple or quadruple for the extra 5% "utility" of something "better".

I ride an old bike that was made in Japan. I have an old guitar that was made in Japan. And I have old cameras that were made in Japan. And one in Canada.

I guess my only vice is not having enough money!:angel:
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So your vice is being cheap? ;) (Really, I'm joking)
 
aperture64 said:
Loved the Luminor since the first time I saw one, but would I wear one if I could afford one. I would be afraid someone would steal it.
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Do a lot of push-ups. On a good day I can do a hundred in one set, but they are quick and sloppy. This way you have the big arms to match a muscular watch just in case.

In real life in NYC it is rare to see a Panerai "in the wild" as they say. See many mostly in advertisements and on models in fashion magazines.

Bill Clinton wears a Panerai BTW.

Cal
 
Social justice work.... It costs only time and, there seems to be a limitless supply of opportunities. You meet some of the most interesting people.
 
Calzone said:
Panerais are great watches, and I own a 8 day GMT. Pretty amazing how a manual winding watch can store all that energy in three barrels and hold the time within seconds every month. That big watch makes a powerful statement, especially on my skinny wrist.

My cheap Rolex is a Sub no-date. Kind of like a pick-up truck or SUV, sturdy, but not as complicated nor as accurate as the Pam.

Also bought the girlfriend two Cartiers. I bought all these watches by taking advantage of two year zero APR offers that made these luxury items that I normally couldn't afford. Glad I took advantage of those offers because they are gone. The monthly payments were like paying down a car loan.

Next obsession is vintage guitars, basses, and vintage tube amps. Oh I forgot a single ended triode 300b tube stereo.

Paul Smith clothing. Designer eyewear. Antique diamond rings.

Retro bicycles now only own three. Use to race but I still am fit and lean. Still bit of a gym junkie.

Most recently got rid of my last car. At one time I owned 5.

All this expensive stuff is really a leftover mark of poverty. I grew up poor and hungry.

Cal
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If I didn't know you personally, I'd think you were a rich snob by this post... though I guess you redeemed yourself with the admittance of using credit. ;)
 
Aren't we all a bit snobby, wearing the red dot on our cameras?
Just sayin'

jsrockit said:
If I didn't know you personally, I'd think you were a rich snob by this post... though I guess you redeemed yourself with the admittance of using credit. ;)
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My wife and I are both antique buffs.
Love Estate sales, antique malls, etc.
That's why our house is full of junks :p
 
My guns, my Kawasaki KLR, Single Malt, and disaster preparedness. The first one is hard since I live in a state that prefers you to be a victim. The second is a must since I live in the state with the highest gas prices. The third is because their single malts. And the forth because I live in a city that is 100 years over due for a massive earthquake.
 
Sextants - marine, bubble and gyroscopic. Beautiful precision engineering. Sadly, its time for the collection to be disposed of, but they gave me great joy.
 
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