Guy or Gal?

Guy or Gal?

  • Guy

    Votes: 1,568 94.7%

  • Gal

    Votes: 87 5.3%
  • Total voters
    1,655
Welcome, Solane. I appreciate your hard path to RF enightenment.

Pray tell, what "fixed lens" rangefinders do you own?

Ted
 
Whohoo! Five! Count them, five! I always read on the 'net that "the wife" has this camera, "the wife" has that problem, "the wife" is looking for a cheap alternative, etc. etc. Perhaps "the wife" should join the forum en masse?

Oh wait...most of you guys would go into massive GAS withdrawal, wouldn't you?
 
Yes, welcome! :) You will find this is a very good group here.

5, huh? That's 5 out of 150-some who did this poll. Aren't there a couple thousand actual members here? Gotta be more of us lurking. :)
 
thanks for the warm welcome. i borrowed a friend's canonet GIII-QL17 last year and i've been trying to get him to sell it to me ever since. since he positively refuses, i've had to take matters into my own hands.

i've bought a few on ebay recently and i'm still cleaning, experimenting and trying to get the hand of things. i have a minolta hi-matic 7 and a 7s and a yashica GSN. those canonets are getting pricey on ebay -- especially since no one seems to know if the cameras they're selling work or not.
 
You might want to try the russian RFs since there is no battery to worry about and they usually work, no matter what condition they are in.
 
solane said:
thanks for the warm welcome. i borrowed a friend's canonet GIII-QL17 last year and i've been trying to get him to sell it to me ever since. since he positively refuses, i've had to take matters into my own hands.
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That is the camera that the gang here suggested for me, as my first choice (one that I had years ago and sold) :( is not readily available. I like it more and more the more I use it. About the only thing I wish it had (other than interchangeable lenses, that is) is manual match-needle exposure.

i've bought a few on ebay recently and i'm still cleaning, experimenting and trying to get the hand of things. i have a minolta hi-matic 7 and a 7s and a yashica GSN. those canonets are getting pricey on ebay -- especially since no one seems to know if the cameras they're selling work or not.
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The one I got from Ebay did not work. I bought it as-is and took my risk. The people here were most helpful in giving me my baptism by fire in camera repair. :) I ended up having to tear apart much of the front to get the stuck shutter un-stuck, and then I replaced the light seals. That job is far more tedious than it appears to be.

If you have any that don't work, don't be afraid to ask for help and advice here. You will get it -- in abundance! :)
 
"Whohoo! Five! Count them, five! I always read on the 'net that "the wife" has this camera, "the wife" has that problem, "the wife" is looking for a cheap alternative, etc. etc. Perhaps "the wife" should join the forum en masse?"

LOL :D

I bet the wife was not looking for the cheap alternative. She must have been kicking someone's b*tt into looking. :D
 
Hey Jorge ... :)

Hey Jorge ... :)

Hey Jorge, or another Moderator, I was just thinking ... uh, if we could get a sticky on this thread we might get more people to take this poll. How 'bout it, please. :) TIA! :)
 
Though they are certainly underrepresented in online forums, I don't think women are underrepresented in photography at all. There has been a long line of fabulous female photographers -- Diane Arbus, Marian Post Wolcott, Martine Franck and so on. Santa Barbara has one of the better photography schools in the country, and all the people I seem to meet from there seem to be women (that may also be because I only really pay attention to them!). The people working in the camera stores here (mostly students) are about 60/40 women. Here is a photographer that I came upon when I was out walking the other day. She was gearing up to do an assignment. Digital SLR though...

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The women are smarter

The women are smarter

They are all out taking photos instead of spending time on forums like us. :p
 
Chuck A said:
They are all out taking photos instead of spending time on forums like us. :p
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Well, while we are (still) outnumbered on many on-line forums (fora?) the balance is indeed shifting. It's not as lopsided as it was when I was in grad school back in the 80's and things were very primative compared to the way they are now.

Some fora do appear to be getting a good balance. The Las Vegas Talk (www.lasvegastalk.com), for example, appears to be well mixed even though gaming has historically been considered to be a male avocation.

Now if you REALLY want to be outnumbered, try a computer user group meeting! :)
 
I would rather have anaesthic-free root canal surgery than join a computer users' group. But that's just me.

"Fora?" Interesting, never thought about it, nor do I recall ever hearing or seeing the word.. Datum is singular and data is plural, so it is correct to say, "this datum" and "these data." Turns out either "forums" or "fora" happens to be O.K. So you pays your money and you takes your choice.

I may have mentioned this before, but in both of the photography classes I taught last year the overwhelming majority of students were female.
 
tedwhite said:
I would rather have anaesthic-free root canal surgery than join a computer users' group.
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ROFL! I've gotta remember that for the next meeting! :) Yeah, I'm outnumbered. :)

"Fora?" Interesting, never thought about it, nor do I recall ever hearing or seeing the word..
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Ok, curiosity got me and I looked it up. Websters says both (forums and fora) are correct. :)

I may have mentioned this before, but in both of the photography classes I taught last year the overwhelming majority of students were female.
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Yes, I remember you saying that -- maybe even in this thread a number of pages back. :) I don't doubt it at all. In photography itself, I know there's a good mix. I do get the feeling that interest in vintage cameras is male-dominated, as are online fora. :)
 
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