March Challenge: Photo and no equipment buying

[taffer]

Ok, we're getting to an agreement about not buying equipment.

Could we give the screw another half turn ?

What about thinking on a short and personal (and new) photo project, let's say around 5 pictures max. Shot, finished and uploaded to this thread (if possible) at the end of the month?

This way we could see how some of the ePay browsing time has been used. Or otherwise, just dedicate that time to work on the monthly RFF one.

Just throwing in ideas. If this thread comes to a good ending, I think we'll all be grateful to Raid when March is over 🙂

 

[Stephanie Brim]

It would be something to do in addition to the photo project. I like the idea.

 

[Goodyear]

Why do you people keep buying cameras? I have three fantastic user cameras for different situations, which is about two cameras too many.

Recently somebody was 'complaining' that the Classified forum in here was now password-protected or something. I never even noticed that there was a Classified forum before.

I do not wish to buy and I do not wish to sell. I want to use what I have.

That's the attitude I'm trying to cultivate.

I have a rangefinder kit I'm happy with and that is my go-to for most situations, and a couple of small SLR kits (for various purposes - even if that purpose is nostalgia in the case of the K1000 kit, since my dad's one of them was the first 'real' camera I used).

Otherwise, I've lately been buying Polaroids and am just now looking at half-frames - both because they're something different I fancy playing around with.

But I think it's time to stop with the buying.

 

[pvdhaar]

Maybe we can pull this off if we agree that April's challenge will be:

Equipment buying and no photos! 😀

It'll be a lot easier for some..

 

[rover]

Oh Jon & Mark, we are collectors too. It is all part of the hobby for some of us. Sure, you guys are right, you don't need a lot of anything, other than film, but ... well, some of us do.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

A 30th anniversary HELLO KITTY!


I think we can set Hello Kitty as the March Theme.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Oh Jon & Mark, we are collectors too.

The daily market nearby sells great locally grown oranges. I really enjoy them. I do not collect them.

Get out more. Enjoy your neighborhood, your camera and forget eBay and compulsive buy buy buy.

 

[taffer]

A 30th anniversary HELLO KITTY!


I think we can set Hello Kitty as the March Theme.

Happy B'day Kitty !

 

[Stephanie Brim]

The daily market nearby sells great locally grown oranges. I really enjoy them. I do not collect them.

Get out more. Enjoy your neighborhood, your camera and forget eBay and compulsive buy buy buy.

If it doesn't work for you then that's perfectly fine and dandy, but don't go about trying to tell people they're wrong for collecting. It's rather rude, IMO.

 

[taffer]

I asume Jon's words are directed to some of us who sometimes realize we get too obsessed with acquiring magic bullets and need a splash of cold water from time to time 🙂

A true collector is on his/her perfect right to keep with his/her collecting, there's nothing wrong with it.

No radical posture is needed, most of us are on this for fun 🙂

 

[Goodyear]

Oh Jon & Mark, we are collectors too. It is all part of the hobby for some of us. Sure, you guys are right, you don't need a lot of anything, other than film, but ... well, some of us do.

Rover - I think you misunderstand my post 🙂

I am hopelessly addicted to buying gear. It's just that the bank manager (and the wife) decree an extended hiatus for that particular activity 😀

I find myself trying really hard to be okay with that. And I suspect my image-making will improve as a consequence. I certainly hope so.

I bought a Pen EE and a Pen F this morning, and am dealing with myself that they will be the last gear before at least the end of the summer. My initial thought was in 2006, but that may be a little ambitious. The end of the summer will be tough enough 😱 (Although don't you know that the summer here in Scotland runs from March 11th to March 13th? 😀 )

 

[Goodyear]

If it doesn't work for you then that's perfectly fine and dandy, but don't go about trying to tell people they're wrong for collecting. It's rather rude, IMO.

Just to clarify - I wasn't talking about anyone but me!

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I know you weren't. I like to buy gear and then actually use it...and I find nothing wrong with that. I don't understand why someone would want to leave a camera on a shelf, but I support the right for people to do so. Jon's comment was rude, IMO.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

We all enjoy the gear. Agreed. There is technology involved in photography. And we have to understand it. But we do not need to obsess about it.

Many of us enjoy the photographs in a gallery, the favorite book of photographs, the sitting at the pavement cafe waiting for the right moment, and the hiking for an hour for the right view.

Real cameras doing what they were made to do. Real lenses being used use for images not lines per millimetre sort of tests.

Lets talk about photographs, images, art and opinions. Opinions about images not about whether the M3 is better than the M6.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

That's all well and good, but without the tools to take the photographs there would be no photographs at all.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

That's all well and good, but without the tools to take the photographs there would be no photographs at all.

My mate Antonio is a first rate carpenter. His woodwork is wonderful.

I do not credit his hammer and choice of nails Although I am certain that as a craftsman he has the best sort of hammer and the best sort of nails.

I could give him my old hammer and a few rusty nails and his woodwork would still be brilliant.

 

[Pherdinand]

i like the idea of taffer of a short project. I wish i was able to do such thing!
:bang:

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I find the short project the best idea because it'll get me off my butt to do one of the three projects I had in mind.

 

[Pherdinand]

I find the short project the best idea because it'll get me off my butt to do one of the three projects I had in mind.

the self nude one?🙂

 

[Stephanie Brim]

No, that one *has* to wait until it warms up. 😛 It's about 60F in here.