Naming a camera!

[dee]

My ASdee gets kinda held up with M8 ,Leica Digilux 3, Panasonic L1 / K10d , so I DO rename them emMa8 , L-eila , eLIe and Kirsten , and now Gina [ G1 ] but it's much more for my mind to avoid a kind of dee'slexia than for others to groan at ...my problem is remembering the names LOL . The Kontaxes don't get the privilege [ sigh of Kontax relief ]

 

[shOo]

I call my Bessa R3a a LEICA. (I can't afford one, and when I saved up for the first leica glass- the 50 summicron, my camera is no longer a voigtlander. It's a leica!🙂)

 

[helen.HH]

I generally refer to my Barnack III conversion as ' Miss Oskar'
and my M2 as 'She' or the M2.... 😛

Plain SILLY of me ...blame it on MOi being a Girl

 

[gdmcclintock]

I am naming all my cameras Keith for the alliterative quality.

 

[mile]

Every time I hear of cameras or lenses called by cutsey names, I cringe.
To me, it's an unnecessary affectation akin to talking babytalk to small dogs.

Well, sounds fitting. Laika is a dog's name, after all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika

 

[Jamie123]

I've yet to name a camera but I've certainly called some of my cameras names a few times.

 

[nikon_sam]

No...I've thought about it but it never went any further than that...

 

[Thardy]

I thought you'd never ask!

Meet Shrek. 😀

Dangit. Why did you have to post a photo of that camera?

 

[Film dino]

Don't start calling 'em Bruce or we'll all need to get licensees for 'em and I don't want to get stuck in line behind the guy with the Halibut...

Bruce

I thought they were all called Eric, Bruce

 

[ZeissFan]

The day that I name a camera is the day that someone needs to come and lock me up in a "I love me" shirt.

 

[Luddite Frank]

So, if you name your cameras, do they come when you call them ?

 

[venchka]

Nope. Nor do they load themselves. And they for sure don't do perfect photos on command.

 

[Steve_F]

I thought you'd never ask!

Meet Shrek. 😀

Uh-Oh.....now I want one....🙁

Steve.

 

[Luddite Frank]

"And they for sure don't do perfect photos on command."


Yes, that's for sure, Wayne !

 

[Spider67]

I once said hand "her" over to me to a camera repair guy and when he gave me my Moskva 5 he said "here's your bride". Compared to it the Olympus RC is a little Geisha.
Otherwise I still say something "her" when I mean a camera...on the other side if it's ok with ships why should it be different with cameras
PS: I talk to my cats even when I should shout

 

[Ming The Merciless]

I call my Contax RX Rex and my Zeiss 35-135 Zoom Oscar. My Bessa I call Bessy and my Konica Hexar Af silver I call Sylvia. My E620 is Ollie.

 

[spiderfrank]

My all black Kiev 60 TTL is called "Oddioddioddio", (oh my God, oh my God, oh my God), from the exclamation of a dear friend, when she saw it for the first time, the day I bought it.
But it has also an other name, that's "Ordigno fine di mondo", I would translate it as "Armageddon device", from the movie "Doctor Strangelove": you must say it with russian accent, of course.

 

[chrismoret]

Meet Freek!! 😀😀

 

[Chris101]

The only camera I have ever named is my IR converted D70, which was given to me by a friend. Because of the deathly way it images people, I badged it Nekron.

 

[tokengirl]

My M6 is called "M6"
My Klasse W is called "Fuji"
My Horizon Perfekt is called "That Russian Thing"
My Olympus XA is called "XA"
My Superheadz Slim Pink Dress is called "The Toy"
My pinhole camera is called "The Horseman" (named for it's roll film back)
My Canon 5DMkII is called "Darth Scaper"
My Canon EOS 630 is called "The Film Canon"
My Canon G10 is called "The Little Camera"
My XPan is too new to have a name yet. Wait. I can call it "XPan".

Oh, and my pair of Canon 40D's are called "Paperweights".