fed and steam loco - anything in common ?!

[colyn]

Let's see.........the train runs over your foot..it hurts....you drop the fed on your foot...it hurts????

Or maybe.......the train makes weird noises and the fed also makes weird noises??

I got it......they are both made of metal and glass and they both use smelly grease that gums up the works???

 

[reagan]

Both are comfortably carried with a half-case?
Both use coal or wood for power?
Both draw attention when fired off in a courtroom or funeral?

 

[Jocko]

I know!

Makes a change 😀

Ian

 

[ErnestoJL]

Other than similarities between them, I would prefer to think about the preferences of the users of both:

I guess (and there was a bunch of threads dealing with it) many of Us RFF members prefer the following elements:

Fine writing instruments (old & fine fountain pens)
Fine mechanical watches
Mechanical and old cameras
Fine cars and motorbikes
Old but trusty analog audio equipment
Old planes and ships.

This may demonstrate that we share a common profile of personal preferences.
All the above mentioned elements also share something in common :
they are old designs, made in a time where things were made to last almost forever, simple to operate and sometimes limited, but with a definite character that make them unique, and then collectible items also.

That´s what (IMHO) links a Fed with a steam loco (as well as many other cameras and items other than those I mentioned before).

Besides, any Fed (or any other mechanical non automatic camera) requires of the highest personal skill of the owner/user to unveil it´s full potential.

A steam loco, as well as any of the items I mentioned before requires the same.

This was my 2 cents for the thread.

Ernesto

 

[lushd]

I know too, but only because I was told.

 

[Sylvaticus]

Both driven by clockwork
Both invoke nostalgiia
You can get them both on e*ay

 

[Al Patterson]

Need to be rebuilt after 1472 service days?

Need to be rebuilt after 1472 service days?

But I doubt the camera needs a Form 4 calculation...

 

[vanyagor]

So many nice and correct answers! However there is even more in common between them! 1 person was thinking in the right direction 😉


Hint 1: The steam loco on my avatar is "the most powerfull" Soviet steam loco

 

[zhang xk]

So many nice and correct answers! However there is even more in common between them! 1 person was thinking in the right direction 😉


Hint 1: The steam loco on my avatar is "the most powerfull" Soviet steam loco

I know that the most powerful Soviet battle tank of WW II was called Stalin, may be this one is Lenin? A Chinese locomotive was named Mao Zedong.

 

[vanyagor]

I know that the most powerful Soviet battle tank of WW II was called Stalin, may be this one is Lenin? A Chinese locomotive was named Mao Zedong.

I did say someone was thinking in the right direction 😉

Not Lenin, not Stalin, not even Mao 🙂

 

[Jocko]

I want to tell someone! Can I do a clue!?

 

[jobo]

Not Lenin, not Stalin, not even Mao 🙂

ЧК? 😉

/Jobo

 

[Jocko]

Not a man of steel, just a happy Roman 🙂

 

[Malcolm_J]

ЧК? 😉

/Jobo

Yup. He was called a man of iron, rather than a man of steel.

 

[Malcolm_J]

Other than similarities between them, I would prefer to think about the preferences of the users of both:

I guess (and there was a bunch of threads dealing with it) many of Us RFF members prefer the following elements:

Fine writing instruments (old & fine fountain pens)
Fine mechanical watches
Mechanical and old cameras
Fine cars and motorbikes
Old but trusty analog audio equipment
Old planes and ships.

This may demonstrate that we share a common profile of personal preferences.
All the above mentioned elements also share something in common :
they are old designs, made in a time where things were made to last almost forever, simple to operate and sometimes limited, but with a definite character that make them unique, and then collectible items also.

That´s what (IMHO) links a Fed with a steam loco (as well as many other cameras and items other than those I mentioned before).

Besides, any Fed (or any other mechanical non automatic camera) requires of the highest personal skill of the owner/user to unveil it´s full potential.

A steam loco, as well as any of the items I mentioned before requires the same.

This was my 2 cents for the thread.

Ernesto

It got an eery feeling reading that. It's all true. It so perfectly describes how out of phase I am with the tastes around me. I would add "old bicycles" too. The Germans still build really excellent and timeless bicycling equipment, at a price of course. They are pretty much alone. The mainstream has very high quality, but you can't trust to be able to get spares in 5 years' time.

It is silly that most items are very well build nowadays and would last an awful long time if they were looked after andthe spares lines were kept open. But the marketeers ensure that old lines get cut off after a few years and advertising is quite effective in pushing people to keep up with each other.

I often wonder what underlies this preference for the mechanical over the electronic? Perhaps a deep reluctance to become dependent? All electronics rely on vast organisations and a few specialist plants in the whole world to produce the microprocessors. Mechanisms do not.

 

[Jocko]

Reading the above, I'm struck by an odd coincidence. The rangefinder camera came to fruition in Germany in the late 1920s-early 1930s and the arguments used in its support mirror the quest for ontological authenticity which informs the exactly contemporary work of Heidegger....

It's a funny old world. Merry Xmas, Ian