New York February NYC Meet-Up/ Ninth Annual Camera Beauty Contest

Fashion Alert: Tomorrow I'll have to return the two shopping bags of clothes to the showroom on Broadway in SoHo. "Poor Calvin" the mule.

Lately for a joke I have been calling myself "Maggie's Intern," because I do all these errands so she can make the big dollars.

The photo of Maggie walking through steam released by a manhole on Wall Street at night didn't do as well as the William Wegman mosaic shot and only got about 21K likes in 24 hours. It did get a lot of "engagement" because there were mucho flattering comments. "The loved it."

Now Maggie is recovering. Fashion Week continues to the 15th, but she is done. She has to get ready for L.A. next week for that Tech company gig.

Cal
 
Calzone said:
Fashion Alert: Tomorrow I'll have to return the two shopping bags of clothes to the showroom on Broadway in SoHo. "Poor Calvin" the mule.

Lately for a joke I have been calling myself "Maggie's Intern," because I do all these errands so she can make the big dollars.

The photo of Maggie walking through steam released by a manhole on Wall Street at night didn't do as well as the William Wegman mosaic shot and only got about 21K likes in 24 hours. It did get a lot of "engagement" because there were mucho flattering comments. "The loved it."

Now Maggie is recovering. Fashion Week continues to the 15th, but she is done. She has to get ready for L.A. next week for that Tech company gig.

Cal
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Your a good guy Cal, glad to hear Maggie had a good week (or month).
 
Calzone said:
Bob,

She is still working two jobs. She leaves her Professor job in May.

Now is my time to get ready for retirement. I'm not far behind.

Cal
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I don't think so Cal, a woman like her retirement is a bad word, ask my
Mom. My Mom didn't retire till she was 80 years young the school where
she work kept her buzy and the kids kept her young, it was really hard
for her to let it go when she did.
 
Range-rover said:
I don't think so Cal, a woman like her retirement is a bad word, ask my
Mom. My Mom didn't retire till she was 80 years young the school where
she work kept her buzy and the kids kept her young, it was really hard
for her to let it go when she did.
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Bob,

"Maggie's" pace at times is not sustainable and stress is a killer. Was your mom working the equivalent of two full time jobs that includes mucho intercontenental travel?

Things like eating, sleeping, and taking care of oneself is important, especially when no longer young.

Difference is the tipping point where cronic fatigue and exhaustion sets in.

At a certain point/level a person should enjoy the fruits of labor and be happy-happy.

Anyways that's my goal. Call me a lazy slacker but as long as I progress and move forward in some manner each day that's enough. Not every day do I need to swing for the fences or hit a grand-slam.

I'm looking into decades ahead, not just a few years. I can see dumping the teaching gig and concentrating on just her blog and writing.

Cal
 
To be clear: I'm fortunate that I made a choice way back when to have a day-job that led to financial security and a real retirement.

Along the way my artistic pursuits only went so far and were compromised, but upon nearing retirement age comes the opportunity to regress to the age of 18 again happens, and I have to ask myself, "What do I want to do over say the next four decades? and what kind of life do I want?"

Pretty much a confusing time is right after graduating High School.

In a way it is about reinventing oneself, or recreating oneself. "Maggie" made a new career for herself to pursue.

When I mention retirement, it really means just quitting the day-job. I think both of us will do some form of work, but it won't be so senseless like a day-job that you do for only money and benefits.

One career ends, and another begins...

Cal
 
Just to be clear. In case some other "clown" decides to walk in with another technika 5x7, mine is really a 13x18, which is just slightly larger!

Regarding that Minolta 35, last Saturday I spotted a skinny young cool kid at the Vivian Mayer show sporting one like that. I kept thinking that his neck must be feeling the weight. That thing has a lead base plate or something.
 
CNNY said:
Just to be clear. In case some other "clown" decides to walk in with another technika 5x7, mine is really a 13x18, which is just slightly larger!

Regarding that Minolta 35, last Saturday I spotted a skinny young cool kid at the Vivian Mayer show sporting one like that. I kept thinking that his neck must be feeling the weight. That thing has a lead base plate or something.
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Christian,

I think you have the big Linhof market cornered. Only other one I ever saw was a 5x7 at B&H.

I have a term "in the wild" used for rare items ever seen in public. Your 13x18 is "in the wild" and not in any museum or showroom.

Cal
 
Thank you, Christian, for the clarification. I saw one of these Linhofs a while ago. Large and heavy, was my impression.

I think most of vintage cameras are much heavier than they look, with exception of bakelite ones. Skinny neck exagerrated the effect.
 
I got "Linhof Disease" from Christian. Call the CDC because he is the epicenter of my outbreak.

There is a very German level of build quality and sturdiness.

I also say that with every Linhof sold comes a free gym membership.
Anyone buying a Linhof should know that it is economically feasable to buy a kit and sell off the accessories and basically get a camera for free. Accessories seem to be sold at big dollar values. You could likely make a good profit by parting out kits on EBAY.

What I love is that you don't see many Linhof's "in the wild."

Cal
 
Calzone said:
Bob,

"Maggie's" pace at times is not sustainable and stress is a killer. Was your mom working the equivalent of two full time jobs that includes mucho intercontenental travel?

Things like eating, sleeping, and taking care of oneself is important, especially when no longer young.

Difference is the tipping point where cronic fatigue and exhaustion sets in.

At a certain point/level a person should enjoy the fruits of labor and be happy-happy.

Anyways that's my goal. Call me a lazy slacker but as long as I progress and move forward in some manner each day that's enough. Not every day do I need to swing for the fences or hit a grand-slam.

I'm looking into decades ahead, not just a few years. I can see dumping the teaching gig and concentrating on just her blog and writing.

Cal
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Yes, we have to keep taking pictures it keeps us young!
 
Calzone said:
To be clear: I'm fortunate that I made a choice way back when to have a day-job that led to financial security and a real retirement.

Along the way my artistic pursuits only went so far and were compromised, but upon nearing retirement age comes the opportunity to regress to the age of 18 again happens, and I have to ask myself, "What do I want to do over say the next four decades? and what kind of life do I want?"

Pretty much a confusing time is right after graduating High School.

In a way it is about reinventing oneself, or recreating oneself. "Maggie" made a new career for herself to pursue.

When I mention retirement, it really means just quitting the day-job. I think both of us will do some form of work, but it won't be so senseless like a day-job that you do for only money and benefits.

One career ends, and another begins...

Cal
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One door closes another one opens!
 
I was listening the other day to Jordan Peterson talking about creative people. Basically a double edged sword because it's very hard to monetize it nowadays and in society the creative edge is not always good.


A big part of me really likes the idea of big millions and do whatever you want in a smart way. Day job is that. I'd not be a bored retiree., it's also easy to pick interests up.
I think it's rather easy to opt out of a Job and one like Maggie's. Much much harder to be the one that gets into it.



Crazy Fedya said:
I think most of vintage cameras are much heavier than they look, with exception of bakelite ones. Skinny neck exagerrated the effect.
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I recall handing my OM1 to a friend and him uttering "wow, this is heavy". Basically a test to that.



At my Local camera club, one of the members pointed me as having "the biggest Fuji" in town. The puny and Point and Shoot GW690. Compared to a LF press camera/Linhof, it's quite a convenient P&S.
 
Prest_400 said:
At my Local camera club, one of the members pointed me as having "the biggest Fuji" in town. The puny and Point and Shoot GW690. Compared to a LF press camera/Linhof, it's quite a convenient P&S.
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Where in Spain are you? I know there are a bunch of folks in Spain on the Leica Users Group.

Regarding the biggest rangefinder, reading that Christian's camera is a 13x18cm that still beats my Korona VI even though that camera is seriously almost 3 feet long. I have an extra Kalart rangefinder that wouldn't be hard at all to calibrate to the 420mm Apo-Ronar. The problem is that I'd have to at least share the spoils with Sam since he generously made all that happen! 😀

I have a few pairs of broken binoculars around... I'd like to take a BK4 prism and this beamsplitter I have from an old yashica and make a huge rangefinder out of black ABS. I'm thinking the same size as they used to use on old WWII tanks. 12ft baselength. Coupling the monster to a camera would be a different matter altogether but not difficult. Projecting framelines would be another matter entirely...
I wonder if that Navy periscope eyepiece is still up on ebay...

Phil Forrest
 
Phil_F_NM said:
Where in Spain are you? I know there are a bunch of folks in Spain on the Leica Users Group.

Regarding the biggest rangefinder, reading that Christian's camera is a 13x18cm that still beats my Korona VI even though that camera is seriously almost 3 feet long. I have an extra Kalart rangefinder that wouldn't be hard at all to calibrate to the 420mm Apo-Ronar. The problem is that I'd have to at least share the spoils with Sam since he generously made all that happen! 😀

I have a few pairs of broken binoculars around... I'd like to take a BK4 prism and this beamsplitter I have from an old yashica and make a huge rangefinder out of black ABS. I'm thinking the same size as they used to use on old WWII tanks. 12ft baselength. Coupling the monster to a camera would be a different matter altogether but not difficult. Projecting framelines would be another matter entirely...
I wonder if that Navy periscope eyepiece is still up on ebay...

Phil Forrest
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Phil,

Back in the day when there was a Cold War, at Grumman I worked with a PhD on building an optical correlator that used a Fourier Transform Hologram for target recognition.

I eventually took this a step further and got a patent on a stereo version of this system and was awarded "Inventor of the Year" for the Space and Electronics Division at Grumman Aerospace when it was the 4th largest military contractor in the U.S.

Not bad for basically a technician. So having all the logistic support and machine shop of a research lab at my disposal of a Fortune 500 Company was mighty cool. I was an operative who got things done. I was a bit ruthless, and I had many friends and some enemies. Pretty much I was a thug with a powerful boss. Pretty Mafia like situation.

I miss having all this infrastructure, raw materials, and access to expertise. As a creative I mostly was a problem solver and mighty clever. My enemies would say I was evil though because I always got my job done. Pretty much was like a Navy SEAL operating within a Fortune 500 Company.

Cal
 
Phil_F_NM said:
Where in Spain are you? I know there are a bunch of folks in Spain on the Leica Users Group.

Phil Forrest
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Forgot to update my location, as now I'm living in Sweden. Uppsala, student town north of the Capital.


Of Spain I roamed close to Barcelona but basically was from the edges of the province, I was in a smaller town but basically not really much going on. This is what I like here, as Cal mentioned earlier on, as this small city is a student Town it is a bit of a melting pot.


BTW I discovered the uni holds a small lab facility with 3D printers one can use after a short course. I don't have evil plans other than replace one of the aperture ring notches on the Texas Leica.


I have to find some time. By the half year I've been lurking at the camera club analog events, they noticed there's more people coming lately. I should come by the cleaning day and fight for a spot for my Chems.


BTW as RF's go, you could assemble some evil 8x10 or ULF setup with the Artillery RF.
 
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