lynnb
Veteran
Photography afflictions - what’s yours? Feel free to add to the list 
Advanced film anxiety - anxiety caused by wondering if you remembered to advance the film, or that you didn’t and will risk double exposure.
Bagaholism - an obsession with owning as many bags as possible in search for the perfect bag, which doesn’t exist. See GAS.
Barnackitis - sufferers consistently claim their Barnack remains the ultimate tool and is as easy to use as any other camera, despite evidence to the contrary. Comes in Ur, Ia, II, IIa, IIc, IIIa, b, c, and f strains.
Blackout syndrome - sufferers are recognisable for having left the lens cap on.
Catscanning - the spending of vast amounts of time trying to remove the cat and cat hair from the scanner and surrounding area. Almost always found to be a total waste of time after the cat sneaks around behind you.
Dysfixia - when you accidentally put fixer in the develop bath.
Edit Paralysis - the point at which you get hopelessly confused about which version of each picture to select for a competition/book/project/web gallery.
Exposure Deficiency Syndrome - the realisation that you’ve exposed an entire roll of film at the wrong ISO, just after you’ve poured the developer out.
Exposure Regret - the realisation immediately after you’ve left a location that if only you’d waited another moment and stood another three feet to the left you’d have captured the picture of a lifetime.
Exposure Panic - the realisation that the roll of film you asked your wife to collect from the lab contains pictures of your girlfriend in flagrante delicto.
Formatitis - the belief that, no matter what format you’re shooting, the picture would have been better using a different (usually larger) format.
GAS - A serious condition with no known cure. Sufferers frequent the RFF Classifieds and eBay with their finger on the Buy It Now button. Complications include bankruptcy and divorce.
Lensphobia - the desire to keep precious lenses in pristine condition. Sufferers would rather leave their lens in a humidity-controlled cabinet rather than risk damage by taking it out and actually using it.
Location Envy - when another photographer has already grabbed the only spot from which to get an unobstructed view of the subject.
Reformatastrophe - the terrible moment you realise you’ve just reformatted a card containing pictures you haven’t downloaded or backed up.
Service Anxiety - the worry that the service centre recommended by everyone else on the internet may have gone off their game the moment you sent your most valuable camera to them.
TLRoyeurism - the entertaining spectacle of watching a person with a TLR trying to track a moving object.
Upgradeitis - the desire to buy the latest Canon DSLR which is exactly the same as the previous model you already own, apart from small cosmetic changes to the font and button placement. A Nikon variant of this condition is also found. A Leica variant may be emerging.
Advanced film anxiety - anxiety caused by wondering if you remembered to advance the film, or that you didn’t and will risk double exposure.
Bagaholism - an obsession with owning as many bags as possible in search for the perfect bag, which doesn’t exist. See GAS.
Barnackitis - sufferers consistently claim their Barnack remains the ultimate tool and is as easy to use as any other camera, despite evidence to the contrary. Comes in Ur, Ia, II, IIa, IIc, IIIa, b, c, and f strains.
Blackout syndrome - sufferers are recognisable for having left the lens cap on.
Catscanning - the spending of vast amounts of time trying to remove the cat and cat hair from the scanner and surrounding area. Almost always found to be a total waste of time after the cat sneaks around behind you.
Dysfixia - when you accidentally put fixer in the develop bath.
Edit Paralysis - the point at which you get hopelessly confused about which version of each picture to select for a competition/book/project/web gallery.
Exposure Deficiency Syndrome - the realisation that you’ve exposed an entire roll of film at the wrong ISO, just after you’ve poured the developer out.
Exposure Regret - the realisation immediately after you’ve left a location that if only you’d waited another moment and stood another three feet to the left you’d have captured the picture of a lifetime.
Exposure Panic - the realisation that the roll of film you asked your wife to collect from the lab contains pictures of your girlfriend in flagrante delicto.
Formatitis - the belief that, no matter what format you’re shooting, the picture would have been better using a different (usually larger) format.
GAS - A serious condition with no known cure. Sufferers frequent the RFF Classifieds and eBay with their finger on the Buy It Now button. Complications include bankruptcy and divorce.
Lensphobia - the desire to keep precious lenses in pristine condition. Sufferers would rather leave their lens in a humidity-controlled cabinet rather than risk damage by taking it out and actually using it.
Location Envy - when another photographer has already grabbed the only spot from which to get an unobstructed view of the subject.
Reformatastrophe - the terrible moment you realise you’ve just reformatted a card containing pictures you haven’t downloaded or backed up.
Service Anxiety - the worry that the service centre recommended by everyone else on the internet may have gone off their game the moment you sent your most valuable camera to them.
TLRoyeurism - the entertaining spectacle of watching a person with a TLR trying to track a moving object.
Upgradeitis - the desire to buy the latest Canon DSLR which is exactly the same as the previous model you already own, apart from small cosmetic changes to the font and button placement. A Nikon variant of this condition is also found. A Leica variant may be emerging.
Talus
pan sin sal
Ha!
ISOITIS- the nervous sweaty feeling when you're not sure if you set the ISO properly when you changed films or can't be positive what film you actually loaded in the camera.
ISOITIS- the nervous sweaty feeling when you're not sure if you set the ISO properly when you changed films or can't be positive what film you actually loaded in the camera.
mike rosenlof
Insufficient information
itso cheaposis Obsessive acquisition of classic film photography objects that now sell for a small fraction of their original price. See GAS. See Mamiya RB 67. And buy it.
Take the Bagoholism description and substitute "tripod" for each occurrence of "bag".
[I don't have an RB67. I have several tripods]
Take the Bagoholism description and substitute "tripod" for each occurrence of "bag".
[I don't have an RB67. I have several tripods]
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
Being somewhere and seeing something that really should be photographed ... but not having a camera and because I tend 'not' to carry a camera with me this is nearly constant.
I do have a photographer friend who I go bush walking with who is the opposite ... she tends to photograph anything and everything to the point of it being bloody annoying and I have now banned her from taking a camera on our occasional walks.
I do have a photographer friend who I go bush walking with who is the opposite ... she tends to photograph anything and everything to the point of it being bloody annoying and I have now banned her from taking a camera on our occasional walks.
lynnb
Veteran
That's funny Keith I need to walk for exercise but I usually carry a camera and end up getting about as much exercise as a dead parrot..
coogee
Well-known
(Dis)location - When you've already got 'the spot' and some other thing enters the frame (quite probably making for a better photograph) but possession of 'the spot' clouds this possibility, leading to possible full Dislocation breakdown.
I'm definitely in a permanent state of catscanning
I've come home at least twice in recent weeks to find the cat had actually shut itself in my darkroom despite it being shut out of said darkroom when I left the house.
I've also had variant of AFA, the 'Did I put film in there' strain. (DIPFIT)
The 40 Frames and Still Counting feeling, is often associated.
I'm definitely in a permanent state of catscanning
I've come home at least twice in recent weeks to find the cat had actually shut itself in my darkroom despite it being shut out of said darkroom when I left the house.
I've also had variant of AFA, the 'Did I put film in there' strain. (DIPFIT)
The 40 Frames and Still Counting feeling, is often associated.
nemjo
Avatar Challenge
Use a collapsible lens collapsed?
Sometimes gives very artistic result.
Sometimes gives very artistic result.
Talus
pan sin sal
Freakscene
Obscure member
Dustrophy - the paranoia of darkroom dust that leads to buying enough airfilters and other gear to create near clean-room conditions but somehow still allows dust to dry irremoveably on my best frames
Sensor palsy - a linked disorder that causes compulsive sensor cleaning out of fear of your best frames may end up with spots on them that could require tricky cloning to remove, but ending up with spots on your best shots anyway, and maybe even a scratched sensor from all that cleaning
Sensor palsy - a linked disorder that causes compulsive sensor cleaning out of fear of your best frames may end up with spots on them that could require tricky cloning to remove, but ending up with spots on your best shots anyway, and maybe even a scratched sensor from all that cleaning
Spanik
Well-known
Oh my... I suffer from at least half of those. Often even more than one at any moment.
kuuan
loves old lenses
digital afflictions:
Alzheimer infectiosum, acute dementia gravidarum, colloq.:SDcardblunderitis - memory card is not inside the camera I carry but inside my notebook back home
postmature disrelease, incubatiophy, colloq.: timerfail - missed shot because on start up camera had reminded last set which had been "self timer"
hypersensitivitis and related fragmented symptoms, colloq.: ISOf.ckup - accidental ISO set to unneccesary high value
Alzheimer infectiosum, acute dementia gravidarum, colloq.:SDcardblunderitis - memory card is not inside the camera I carry but inside my notebook back home
postmature disrelease, incubatiophy, colloq.: timerfail - missed shot because on start up camera had reminded last set which had been "self timer"
hypersensitivitis and related fragmented symptoms, colloq.: ISOf.ckup - accidental ISO set to unneccesary high value
helen.HH
To Light & Love ...
Haha. Too funny !
Do we have a RFf Doctor in the House ?
Do we have a RFf Doctor in the House ?
valdas
Veteran
Premature opening - opening camera with the mid-roll film in (thinking it was not loaded)...
cz23
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forumectomy - the full or partial removal of photography forums from one's life for the express purpose and near-certainty of improving one's photography.
PTSD (post/thread submissions delusion) - the illusion by which a photographer believes that posting to photography forums somehow strengthens his or her identity as a REAL photographer.
mystreetosis - a common disease among street photographers in which the photographer believes that he or she owns the streets and has an inalienable right to photograph complete strangers, regardless of the feelings or sensitivities of those strangers.
PTSD (post/thread submissions delusion) - the illusion by which a photographer believes that posting to photography forums somehow strengthens his or her identity as a REAL photographer.
mystreetosis - a common disease among street photographers in which the photographer believes that he or she owns the streets and has an inalienable right to photograph complete strangers, regardless of the feelings or sensitivities of those strangers.
brbo
Well-known
Not to be confused with...
Blackout paranoia - repeating and unjustified concern of having just made the shot with the lens cap on
(I do my "just because the lens cap is now on the lens doesn't mean I left it on for the previous shot" mantra chants 3x a day, but I still suffer from this condition...)
Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
Forumnezia - killing time with excuse what pictures might be better if keep on asking on forums.
lynnb
Veteran
I did that today!!! :bang:
ellisson
Well-known
Loaded film amnesia: One or more cameras loaded, but no mark to indicate which film and/or ISO.
seany65
Well-known
Notgotitis - Only seeing a good photo when I've Notgot a camera with me.
Havegotitis - Never seeing a good photo when I Havegot a camera with me.
Havegotitis - Never seeing a good photo when I Havegot a camera with me.
Dogman
Veteran
Lazyassitis...Intermittent affliction that causes one to be unable to rise from a comfortable seated position and actually take pictures.