Is it just me who buys cameras when i get dumped ? ;)

[kiev4a]

Might be why so many of us with a lot of cameras a older. I've been married 38 years and I think my mate figures letting me get all this junk is cheaper than a Corvette of a mistress🙂 Might be a lot of others operate on the same theory. A girl friend, on the other hand, doesn't have that kind of viewpoint or patience.

 

[titrisol]

Yup Ecuadorean living in NC... same longitude different latitude
badly OT, we have to win at least one of those games to qualify. BOlivia and Uruguay are next.
The last match is with Chile in Chile.... tough, very very tough

Oh so you are from Ecuador! So many international members here that's what makes this forum so great (in part)! Well I don't get GOL with my service but it will probably be on the Fox Soccer Channel here. Good luck with the rest of the qualifying - three games I think! 🙂 Hey we're badly off topic... 😉

 

[peter_n]

Well still OT thanks for the info Einars! 🙂 Uruguay hmmm that could be tough too because they are desperate but they will probably run out of oxygen... Good luck pal!

 

[tamerlin]

Hm... my fiancee broke off the engagement right about when I started moving into the new house...
... and now I have an m7 and an XPanII. Go figure. 🙂

 

[Zorkiiglaza]

I was once told that the wife of a well known collector of FSU cameras left him because of his obsession of camera collecting. The most serious case of GAS

 

[egpj]

Sounds like something I can do with my spare time. Volunteer at the local hospital and get dates for the evening. My heart is in the right place and so is something else. 😛

I have bought some serious gear after my break ups. Mostly because while with the girl I was getting some money saved up. Then after she is gone I have a bunch of expendable income. Let's see, after Diana I bought a new Brietling, after Aydana I bought the MP with 1 lens, after the second breakup with Diana I got two more M mount lens', after Sonya (actually missed her) I bought the R9, after Lyda I got the rest of my lens' and a Rolex sea dweller. I just can't afford anymore women. They are bad.

 

[denishr]

Can't comment on breaking up.... I'm happily married, and I'm OK in that department 🙂

However, I do work a lot - I'm self-employed, and (luckily) the business is usually good. So, after a particularly nasty and long translation (which is followed by a hefty invoice 🙂), and particularly if I'm immediately throwing myself on another translation project, I sometimes indulge myself with another gear purchase. Think of it as an outlet... I don't get out much, don't really drink, don't chase women, and I don't nearly shoot my cameras as much as I'd like to. So, buying more gear is actually a "vent" of a kind, a substitute for "real life", which for me is passing in front of a computer screen, banging away at the keyboard, translating boring manuals or contracts 🙁

RFF can be seen as another outlet in this regard, when I think about it better. Instead of going out with friends for a drink, I take a break from my work (MS Word still open in another window) to check out what's new on RFF. A few minutes at a time, and then back to work.

I probably wouldn't buy so much gear if I had time to actually use the gear I already have 🙂

Denis

 

[peter_n]

I probably wouldn't buy so much gear if I had time to actually use the gear I already have 🙂

Or if you didn't log in to RFF for "a few minutes at a time"... 😉