Good Xmas Gift for Photogs

[Nick R.]

If you're like me, you're always writing your shooting notes on whatever odd bits of paper you can find lying around the house. Well, I just bought this little pocket notebook and it's so great I think all photogs would love to have one even non-RFF'ers. It's a Moleskine reporters notebook which I bought here but you can find elsewhere. It's an inexpensive photography related gift that makes a good stocking stuffer. (I have no connection to the product accept as a user).

 

[Goodyear]

I've been using Moleskine notebooks for a couple of years now - including one of those that lives in my camera bag 😀

They are not cheap, as notebooks go, but they are excellent.

I have three obsessions in life:

1) photography, and it's paraphenalia.
2) bags (camera bags, satchels, good things for lugging my stuff in - yes, I'm a girly-man wrt this one thing, it amuses my wife greatly; she has bought me a beautiful leather satchel for Christmas, and I also have my eye on the timbuk2 messengers).
3) notebooks and pens.

In all three it appears I have expensive tastes 😀 In the form-and-feel stakes, I'd liken Moleskine to... maybe not Leica... but certainly what I hope the ZIkon to be like 😉

 

[vha]

Hello, my name is Vidar and i have the same problem .. . 😀

Been thinking of the new moleskine reporter, but since they don´t have it here in Argentina I have to wait until I'm back in Norway.
Been using their pocket agenda for the last two years and it´s a needful thing.

vha

 

[OdDbaLL]

Can I add my name to the camera/satchel/notepook,pen fetish group aswell?

I used to like my Moleskine's aswell. But then I came across Scandinavian Bookbinder's Design in Paris, (they're a Swedish company though). They're also on the pricey side but they are beautifully, tightly bound in nice fabrics, very high quality paper and feel really great.

-Christian

 

[lido]

I've been using Moleskine notebooks for a couple of years now - including one of those that lives in my camera bag 😀

They are not cheap, as notebooks go, but they are excellent.

I have three obsessions in life:

1) photography, and it's paraphenalia.
2) bags (camera bags, satchels, good things for lugging my stuff in - yes, I'm a girly-man wrt this one thing, it amuses my wife greatly; she has bought me a beautiful leather satchel for Christmas, and I also have my eye on the timbuk2 messengers).
3) notebooks and pens.

Only one thing to add:

4) mechanical watches

 

[peter_n]

What is so special about a Moleskin notebook? It looks just like a regular notebook, at least to me... 😕

 

[cp_ste.croix]

you guys take shooting notes??? 😀

 

[einolu]

What is so special about a Moleskin notebook? It looks just like a regular notebook, at least to me... 😕

didnt hemingway write in one? heh, but they arent that special, just kind of cool, and they have a band around them to keep everything inside.

(moleskin link: http://mymoleskine.typepad.jp/myartist/ )

 

[peter_n]

I guess I'm not getting it. I think I'll stick with my Ampad... 😉

 

[lightwriter]

I've used them for a couple of years now primarily for work. It has everything from photo notes, to do lists, part numbers (work stuff). The little band is what I like. I use the band as a place holder so that I can always open it to the page I last wrote in. These days though I just write directly into my pocket pc since I always have it my pocket anyway (I have an exposure and DOF program on it). I just put all my info into a premade spreadsheet. Then I can print it and store it with that roll once it's processed. Yeah, I'm a geek 🙂

 

[egpj]

Standard issue Memo book (U.S. Government issue) Federal Supply number 7530-00-222-0078. Fits in your back pocket or camera bag very easily. It is green with Memoranda in a script font across the front. Works for me. Don't know if you can pick these up in the civil market though.

 

[richard_l]

Nice photo, Nick. Great tonality! Did you take it with your new 28mm lens?

 

[Nick R.]

Nice photo, Nick. Great tonality! Did you take it with your new 28mm lens?

Thanks, yes I did.
I didn't post this in my gallery because I want to go back and work it a little differently. One reason to take good notes 🙂

Peter, with that attitude, you're gonna wind up with a lump of coal! 😉

 

[back alley]

taking notes...what a concept.
i think it great if i remember what lens i used and i have to check my negs to see what film i used most of the time.

 

[RJBender]

Standard issue Memo book (U.S. Government issue) Federal Supply number 7530-00-222-0078. Fits in your back pocket or camera bag very easily. It is green with Memoranda in a script font across the front. Works for me. Don't know if you can pick these up in the civil market though.

Is this it?
Page 27
http://apps.fss.gsa.gov/pub/mtips/Jul_Aug03/GSA_Global_Supply.pdf
6"X3 1/2" $8.44

R.J.

 

[Pherdinand]

well, it seems i'm not like you🙂

might be a good idea to try it, though.

 

[Poptart]

I use a waterproof paper notebook designed for EPA field testing.

 

[ChrisPlatt]

These are great:

http://riteintherain.com/

"Excelsior, you fathead!"
-Chris-

 

[peter_n]

[snip] Peter, with that attitude, you're gonna wind up with a lump of coal! 😉

LOL you are right Nick. The Ampad is kind of wrecked. I'll drop into a nice little paper store nearby today and see what they've got. 😉

 

[schmoozit]

Nah! That'd just mean I lose all my notes at once!