insult my camera!

[bwcolor]

If 'old' is an insult, then I'm self-insulting.

It seems to me you had someone trying to make some light conversation. Bit touchy that day, were we?

 

[Eddie90723]

He ended up getting 10$ out of me for a $40 check. Even after he kept me waiting for my diet coke, lost my omelette, didn't bring us cutlery until after the food showed up, and brought out burnt French toast.
I'm not touchy, more of a dry, dry, dry sense of humor with a monotone delivery.
Besides, later on I met up with a friend who introduced me to his friends. One of them had a holga...he went on and on about how great film is. So when I showed him my Zm, he responded with "oh your camera is metal, yea I don't take this too serious"
This all reminded me of why I moved out of San Francisco...I'm too LA.

 

[Brian Legge]

Odd. I usually the 'how old is it?' question, followed by awe that it still works and occasionally comments about how I must really know what I'm doing.

The attitudes around Seattle to film seem generally positive.

 

[thegman]

Hell I told a couple of teenagers the other day that my camera uses film. They had never heard of that before. I told them it was the latest technology. one of them said Far Out and high fived me.

It is isn't it? Surely a sensor technology which can be made any size you like, tuned for B&W or colour, does not require batteries, and can be sold for less than a pint of beer is a dramatic improvement over the "legacy" digital cameras being sold today.

In seriousness, I've only had one person call my Ikon "old fashioned" looking, the rest have been very complimentary.

 

[robert blu]

I was shooting with my Rolleiflex at a friend's family meeting and I noticed a boy (12-13) curious about my camera. I show it and let him look from above in it. He was very surprised by the right-left side inversion and then ask me how many megapixel it was !
robert

 

[Neare]

Its kind of a crap system, you have to pay extra for the servers just to do their job, but on the other hand, the servers dont get paid much and rely on those tips...

My sisters roommate is a NY waitress, she brings home $200-300 a night from tips alone. Some of them are not so bad off 😀



No one called my ZM old when I went anywhere with it, must have been the sleek looking chrome. Obviously what it was.

 

[filmtwit]

$200-300 doesn't go very far in NYC, and a lot of wait staff schedules are not full time.

My sisters roommate is a NY waitress, she brings home $200-300 a night from tips alone. Some of them are not so bad off 😀.

 

[Roberto V.]

A few weeks ago I was having a coffee, and one of the employees who was on a smoke break saw my Canon A2E (also called the EOS 5) which is painted matte black with no logos or anything. He asked if he could take a look at it, and after he did he said "I have a Canon too, but mine is the EOS 5, it's a newer model. 🙄

 

[FPjohn]

I've been asked if my Arca FC or Century Graphic takes plates!

yours
FPJ

 

[nikon_sam]

I don't really know if this comment was for me or my camera...

I was shooting the kids in Marching Band and one of them noticed as I was loading another roll of film (mind you I'm using a Nikon F5) and she said..."That's so ghetto..."

 

[BillBingham2]

I put a CV 28mm Metal Brightline Finder on my Ricoh GRD III and get comments about it being an old camera from kids. Then I turn on the LCD and get the strangest looks.........

B2 (;->

 

[Bob Michaels]

I was recently at a large outdoor flea market when a vendor spied my ZI with Zeiss lens. He commented he had good cameras for $20 and "old clunkers" like mine for $10. I thought of that old line about debating with fools and said nothing. I did check out his camera inventory which was a selection of old cheap film P&S's for $20.

He explained he was the richest man at the market and had $100,000 worth of inventory. I thought it strange that someone that wealthy would not have his very much needed dental work done.

 

[Paul Luscher]

Hey, if people think my camera is an old piece of junk and that I'm an idiot for still shooting film, I'm cool with it. Less chance that someone might try to steal it, and less chance that they'll take me seriously when I'm snapping pics (makes it easier in street shooting).

Years ago, I was shooting a concert with a Leica M3, when someone noticed my camera, and asked if it was a rangefinder. I said yes, and he said I could do a lot better if I used something other than "that old piece of ****."

Had to laugh inside--I'd been getting great photos out of the thing, and I 'd bought it to REPLACE the SLRs I'd been using--found them to be too noisy for the work I was doing, and too hard to focus in low light...

So I say: insult away. You don't know what you're missing.

 

[semrich]

I was taking photos on the ferry with my M8, and two young guys asked me it was an antique camera. I don't think showing them the display did anything to change their minds.

 

[retro]

People who cluelessly toss insults about anything are fair game in
my book.

 

[p.giannakis]

Last year i went to Wales for some mountain trekking. In the middle of nowhere I met an older couple (late 60s') who approached me and asked me if my camera - Zeiss Ikoflex Ib - was a Rolleiflex.....

 

[kshapero]

Any waiter that can't tell a Rolleiflex E from a Rolleiflex F automatically gets stiffed here. It's a hard town for that!

Waiters are paid to fawn. No fawn, we pack it up and go to Jack In the Box.

What town was that again?

 

[kshapero]

I was recently at a large outdoor flea market when a vendor spied my ZI with Zeiss lens. He commented he had good cameras for $20 and "old clunkers" like mine for $10. I thought of that old line about debating with fools and said nothing. I did check out his camera inventory which was a selection of old cheap film P&S's for $20.

He explained he was the richest man at the market and had $100,000 worth of inventory. I thought it strange that someone that wealthy would not have his very much needed dental work done.

That's hilarious!!

 

[punkromance]

He ended up getting 10$ out of me for a $40 check.

Y'ouch. Glad I don't live in the States.

 

[kossi008]

Not to mention there are no benefits, no time off (you're not there, you're not getting paid), and you more often than not have to work on any given day of the year (e.g. holidays). The worst of it... You have to put up with the public. You couldn't pay me enough for that! 😉

And you have to endure those camera freaks who'll withhold their tips on the slightest excuse such as not recognizing their 1947 Watziflex... 😀