On realistic expectations...

[Roger Hicks]

... (for earning a living in photography) it is hard to beat the South African website http://www.hayibo.com/hipsters-face-identity-crisis-as-they-become-like-mainstream/

Cheers,

R.

 

[f6andBthere]

I can deal with all the hipster fashion fads/statements aside from the black stove pipe pants with the arse hanging down ... ? 😛

 

[icebear]

I'm pretty convinced that I'm not hip and also I'm not trying to get there.
So I can't really relate to any of the hipster problems.
Other than that: RF will never become mainstream, so I'm good 😎.

 

[Pastor Chris]

I am sure that I am not hip, nor do I want to get there, and when was dumbfounded while at the photo plus expo in NYC recently, shooting with my Contax IIa, when a woman said to me, "Cool, that's, like, a hipster camera." If she was a man, I might have slapped her and walked away.

 

[f6andBthere]

I am sure that I am not hip, nor do I want to get there, and when was dumbfounded while at the photo plus expo in NYC recently, shooting with my Contax IIa, when a woman said to me, "Cool, that's, like, a hipster camera." If she was a man, I might have slapped her and walked away.

As a suporter of equal rights ... I feel you should have slapped her. 😀

 

[Pickett Wilson]

A Leica may be a hipster camera, but a Contax IIa is too hardcore for hipsters, dude. 🙂

 

[Pastor Chris]

Ok, Pickett Wilson has declared that Leica has potential for being a hipster camera and also that a Contax of early vintage is too hardcore to be a hipster camera.

Roger, would it be considered hijacking your thread to start listing what are hipster cameras and what are not. It would be a true public service for those of us who are not hip, but I can start another thread to that issue if you like. Don't let us get off track.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Oh come on, everyone knows the TRUE Hipsta camera is anything sold by Lomo. Thankfully they don't sell Leicas or Contaxes yet!

 

[stompyq]

Well my cousin called my Pentax 6x7 a hipster camera this thanksgiving. Still feeling a little insulted.

 

[Pickett Wilson]

The Pentax 6x7 qualifies only if covered with a roll of gaffers tape.

 

[sreed2006]

Another article from the same website, about hipsters wanting to be professional photographers: http://www.hayibo.com/hipsters-stun...fail-to-make-them-professional-photographers/

 

[f6andBthere]

From what I've seen of the average hipster they'd be lucky to be able to pick a P67 up.

 

[mooge]

making fun of hipsters is so mainstream.

 

[Timmyjoe]

God, I know I'm really old, but what the heck is a "hipster"? I'm sure I hang around with the absolutely "wrong crowd" but I've never even heard anyone use the term. Well, not since back in the 1960's anyway.

Best,
-Tim

 

[Roger Hicks]

Ok, Pickett Wilson has declared that Leica has potential for being a hipster camera and also that a Contax of early vintage is too hardcore to be a hipster camera.

Roger, would it be considered hijacking your thread to start listing what are hipster cameras and what are not. It would be a true public service for those of us who are not hip, but I can start another thread to that issue if you like. Don't let us get off track.

Feel free!

Cheers,

R.

 

[MartinP]

The Pentax 6x7 qualifies only if covered with a roll of gaffers tape.

Given the size of the thing, that might be two and a half rolls of gaffer-tape? 😉

 

[Sejanus.Aelianus]

God, I know I'm really old, but what the heck is a "hipster"?

That's a darned good question. Hang on while I call my grandson on the telephone...

😀

 

[alistair.o]

making fun of hipsters is so mainstream.

oh ya!

and like another thing, my As Pen Spot F is so there and it's Black - like oh, dude...

 

[Pickett Wilson]

Hipster at Urban Dictionary:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hipsters

 

[malcD]

That's a darned good question. Hang on while I call my grandson on the telephone...

should be Skype or Mobile ---like---