Please help me look cool!

In Asia certainly Japan, your leica would put you among the cognescenti. Definitely cool there. In Japan I saw a very cool young man out with a young woman and the young man had a Pentax 6x7 slung elegantly over his shoulder.
 
MickH said:
Please tell me I'm not the only person here who doesn't recognise any of those three women (1 x blonde & 2 x brunette) in the first few posts.
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I wouldn't know who they are if people didn't mention their names.
But those ladies are sure pretty, and they may take great photos, who knows.

Here's another one:
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Linked from here: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK...eltdown-Exhibit/Media-Gallery/200911315456714
Now that's a real photographer's camera 🙂
 
She looks cooler than me when I'm out carrying one of those things. No beads of sweat on her brow or signs of aching shoulders. 🙂
 
HEY! You're a LEICA-MAN! You're beyond worrying about being cool or uncool! That line of thinking is for small minds....you inhabit a stratospheric world all of your own......
 
Dude, I am gonna tell you the way to ueber-coolness:
http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Hipster

Please note the concept of extended youth. 🙄

Goes well with your Leica M4-P. I am not sure how it will go with your wife.

Edit: Don't forget to wear the photovest. A very practical piece of gear. I would say: essential! Of course, Tom's rapid winder is another very useful accesoire. Combined with a softie, pure ergonomical bliss. You do not need this motor driven stuff. Think about the noise, the batteries. Boat shoes are also very useful. You know, they do not make any noise when trotting around - essential for discrete, documentary shooting - and you can wear them all day without straining your ankles too much (as with combat boots, for example). . 😀
 
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Spleenrippa said:
Friends don't let friends associate with- let alone be- hipsters.
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Oh, maybe I should have added a wink also. 😉
As a proof of my personal coolness, I will add this: 😎.

However, what is so bad about the hipster guys and gals? The ones I have very superficially met were very friendly and helpful. Maybe I have missed something. I noticed that a lot of people have a very negative attitude towards hipsters. Mostly I replied: Just add the glasses and you are a hipster too. 😉

I even thought about a campaign: Invite a hipster to dinner today.
 
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Hey ... what's Will Schuester from 'Glee' doing with that old camera? 😱

Did I miss an important episode? :angel:


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Keith said:
Hey ... what's Will Schuester from 'Glee' doing with that old camera? 😱

Did I miss an important episode? :angel:


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Today I met a girl in a camera shop. She was wielding a Canon super 8 camera and wanted to buy some film. I asked: "Why don't you use that cool 8mm app for the i-phone? Didn't they stop developing that Kodachrome thing?" She said: "Yeah, but they have Ektachrome." I replied: "Sure. ", and showed her the impressive performance of the app in all its glory. She said: "But one could tell that it's fake!" I replied: "Yeah, sure, but what isn't fake nowadays?"
 
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It really seems that Leica is cool - well mostly. I often have my M8 around my neck even if just doing the weekly shopping and over the past few weeks have had several approving comments from women.

The usual scenario is a young woman working in a shop who recognises the camera and comments on how cool it is. Often as it turns out these are photography students working part time who at least understand what a Leica rangefinder is.

Sometimes the not so cool -feeling response that I have had is - "My dad had one of those" (Not realising apparently the camera is digital.) OUCH 😱
 
a woman's point of view

a woman's point of view

You have two options:

1) If you really love your Leica, spend time alone with it out. Give yourself at least an hour with it each day. Don't let anyone else come between you and your Leica, unless you think it smart to go out with your wife AND your mistress. 🙄

2) Get your wife her own Leica.


(on my 6th roll in a row loading a IIIf without a glitch using my secret technique...yay....!)
 
Ken Smith said:
Sounds to me like you have a legal contract for co-habitation instead of a marriage. A Marriage is made of more sturdier material at multiple layers than a legal document alone can quantify.
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Ken, you need to quit goofing around and take this thread MUCH more seriously.
 
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