Hipster vs. analog hobby photographer

I was down Brick Lane the other weekend, which is the Hipster epicentre of London on a Sunday afternoon. I saw only ONE film camera draped around a neck. Call themselves Hip?!

If that was anything to go by, the Hipster camera of choice these days is a Nikon DSLR with zoom.

(PS - I don't count myself a hipster, I was there for a curry - unhip)
 
sparrow6224 said:
And to those of you over 40 -- there are PLENTY of hipsters over 40 in NYC. Age restrictions do not really apply anymore.
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I agree.

Some of the typing posted above is very accurate, but know that I bought my vintage bicycles decades ago when they were brand new and now they are around 25 years old and can be considered antiques. My Titanium bicycles are among the first ever made, and my mountain bikes were purchased when mountain biking was new.

Been shooting film since the seventies, but I feel buying a Leica Monochrom is a "Hipster" move on my part.

I wear a Panerai GMT Luminor. It's a huge military watch, especially on a lanky but muscular small framed Asian body. Although 55, I do not look like an old man going through a mid-life crisis. Its pretty funny seeing many old fools trying to hipsters when clearly they are not. My left ear was pierced back in 1973 when I was 15 years old, but now I no longer wear an earing because for me its no longer hip.

Cal
 
Roger Hicks said:
Come to the Arles Rencontres. There are lots of ageing hippies there, and lots of younger people too who haven't bought into consumerist capitalism. Which is intriguing as there are also a lot of Leicas there. One of my friends (Richard Petit -- see http://www.galerie-photo.com/richard-petit.html ) recently sold his car to buy an M9 for an India trip (where he'll also be using LF).

Cheers,

R.
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Sounds like a grand time, Roger!

I bristle at pretense and folks who act pretentious. There's nothing better socially than a bunch of unpretentious folks getting together to enjoy something they share in common.

Fortunately, there are still a few of us who are hold-overs from the old days and we used (and still use) Leica because it was just the best camera of its kind for doing the work we wanted to do instead of having it for it's (now) boutique value. I also lived on a ranch for a year in an old 23' Airstream trailer before Airstreams were trendy and pretentious, and I wanted a Land Rover SIII five door because it was rugged and the most competent 4WD of its day. The Range Rover had been out for years, and was the darling of the McMansion set in SoCal. I still lament not buying a '73 SIII five-door I looked at in Omaha in 1998 (even though it's prudent to carry a box of extra axle half-shafts). In those days, "trendy" hadn't yet become trendy. Today, though, I confess that I do enjoy the relative comfort and smooth ride that my FJ 'Cruiser offers... especially the A/C in the summer. 😉
 
The standard Mini by BMW was about the only Eoropean car considered reasonable by the inestimable Dog and Lemon Car Guide from New Zealand, last time I looked at it. Their rationality in recommending Japanese still left room for a moment of weakness, pre XF, in allowing that in the long-running XJ series of Jaguars there was, if I remember right, a five and a half week period of manufacture, some time in the 1980s where the Jags were not quite so unreliable....

But the hipster's car would be a Karmann Ghia.
 
Richard G said:
The standard Mini by BMW was about the only Eoropean car considered reasonable by the inestimable Dog and Lemon Car Guide from New Zealand, last time I looked at it. Their rationality in recommending Japanese still left room for a moment of weakness, pre XF, in allowing that in the long-running XJ series of Jaguars there was, if I remember right, a five and a half week period of manufacture, some time in the 1980s where the Jags were not quite so unreliable....

But the hipster's car would be a Karmann Ghia.
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IIRC, during that five-week period, Jag still included one sealed bottle of wiring harness smoke in anticipation of the need to replace the smoke in the wiring harness at least once during the warranty period, didn't they? And there's no denying the amazing Lucas three way switches: dim, flicker and off.
 
hepcat said:
You realize, of course, that Sean Connery is eighty-two, George Lazenby is seventy-two, Roger Moore is eighty-five, Timothy Dalton is sixty-seven, and Pierce Brosnan is sixty years old now? Perhaps you should have asked for a little clarification. <grin>
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I think it was more like having the license to kill when they were more in their prime. LOL. Anyways that's what I hope. If that girl wasn't so hot, perhaps there would be a different spin on what she said.

Perhaps it was me projecting, I use to be a performance artist, and for me the street is a stage. When I get all dressed up I do notice that I get treated differently in a profound way.

Cal
 
hepcat said:
IIRC, during that five-week period, Jag still included one sealed bottle of wiring harness smoke in anticipation of the need to replace the smoke in the wiring harness at least once during the warranty period, didn't they? And there's no denying the amazing Lucas three way switches: dim, flicker and off.
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Hepcat, what a fantastic link in this post. If only my father (3.4 litre Mark II) had seen this. Roger! Have a look.
 
Hispsters are a very uniform subculture that want's to be definite from the mainstream. They do this mainly with clothes.

RFF community is a very uniform subculture that want's to be definite from the photo mainstream. We do this with cameras, bags and other unique equipment.

Not a big difference in behavior I think.
 
KoNickon said:
Man, for all the protestations I'm seeing on this thread that "I'm not a hipster," there is a lot of product name dropping!
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Only because most of us had the things by those names when they were just good (or in the case of Jag, questionable) quality "things" and before it was "cool." It's been fascinating to watch other folks canonize them. 😉
 
KoNickon said:
Man, for all the protestations I'm seeing on this thread that "I'm not a hipster," there is a lot of product name dropping!
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I don't deny that I'm an old hipster.

For historical reasons I mention the Titanium bikes. Back in the day, when mountain bikes were the new rage, mountain bikes were made in the USA mostly in California. My IBIS was one of these boutique builders.

Back in the eighties I owned Jeeps before the SUV craze. Also I built an 84 Jeep Scrambler into an urban assault vehicle before they made the HumVee.

I lived on the Southside of Williamsburg before it was conquered by hipsters.

As far as hipster cars, I own a 1980 Checker "Limo" in 1985. It was like the cabs, except with a foot longer wheelbase, had 9 passenger seating capacity, and came from the factory with a black vinyl top and an opera window. Only about 200 were ever made.

Always had long hair, so having a ponytail is nothing new here.

Panerai's watches are still kinda rare to "see in the wild."

Cal
 
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