Significant Others commenting on your hobby.

[Goodyear]

As a partner to the SO thread, what's the best remark yours has been heard to make regarding your obsession?

Last night, my wife on the decision to fly to Cambridge next week instead of driving:

"We'll have to pack lighter.

I guess we'll have to only take one or two cameras each."

😀

 

[hugivza]

"If you didn't take all of that junk you wouldn't be over the 7.5 kg hand baggage allowance. Why can't you take just one?"

 

[pvdhaar]

When I'm separating keepers from bad shots in a roll, usually at a 1:35 ratio;

'Why can't you just take the good pictures?'

I wish I knew how to do that...

 

[simonankor]

"Do you really need another camera?" followed immediately after by "Ooooh, get it! What a great deal!"

I should make clear that between those two comments was a brief rundown on the value of a Rolleiflex, and how much my Rolleiflex was costing me 😉

 

[Pherdinand]

[my former SO on a sunny day in a park:]
"Oh no, don't sell them, do you need $? I can loan you some, but don't sell off any of your nice cameras, they are so cool!"

 

[FrankS]

On street photography: "Why do you take pictures of people you don't even know?"

 

[MinorTones]

Hehe Frank that rings similar to this comment made by my SO

"Its like your sucking their souls out through that lens"

When watching me photograph on the street in Boston 2 years ago.

-Mitch

 

[rover]

How does a snarl and outstretched hand blocking the lens fit in to this thread?

 

[tetrisattack]

"Hey! Somebody wants me to shoot a wedding! ...is there any way you can fed-ex me the mamiya rig? And which film do you think I should use?"

I go to school in Washington, she goes to school in Massachusetts. :|

 

[Traut]

I always shot with Nikons and OMs besides LEicas. I was at the zoo a few years back with a brand new F5 Nikon. My SO thought I had been shooting the same rig for 15 years at that point. While at the zoo people were coming up asking to hold the F5 or just remarking "I never saw one" , etc. I had to explain that old Nikons were a rarity and people "needed to get out more".

 

[KoNickon]

Usually I get a "How long have you had that one [i.e. camera]?" To which I respond vaguely, "Oh, I've had this for a while now." Sometimes that's true, sometimes it's not.

 

[f/stopblues]

On suggesting a light meter for a Christmas gift:
"Your gift can't be something you have to explain to me over coffee."

from my now-ex SO/GF 🙁

 

[FrankS]

Another advantage about buying vintage photo gear:

SO asks, "Is that a new camera?"
You can honestly reply, "No dear, it's an old one."

 

[SalmanA]

My SO's two most favourable comments off-late:

(1) "What a cool looking camera": after seeing and using my Canonet QL17.

(2) "What a cool looking lens hood": after seeing the petal-shaped hood for my 24mm SLR wide-angle!

 

[Dave H]

Four usually in the following order :

1. Cant you take some colour ones

2. Why cant you just take some normal photos once in a while !

3. Stop fannying about and just buy a camera that I can use (ie Nikon Auto everything)

4. Suppose your going in the darkroom AGAIN!

 

[Peter Klein]

1) "Will you stop wasting your time agonizing? Just buy the lens."

2a) "I'd love to see the pictures, but please, no technical explanations."

2b) "Why are you always downing yourself? Your pictures are beautiful."

3) "Oh NO, honey, you didn't show that picture of me to anyone, did you?"

and the piece de resistance:

4) "You know, the Leica is nice, but the E-1 (DSLR) looks really professional.

--Peter

 

[broadie]

"Why don't you try going a year without buying any new equipment, and just concentrate on the pictures themselves..."

So much much wisdom there...but, damn, that's easier said than done! But I keep telling myself (and my SO) I'll be there one day...

 

[bmicklea]

The oft-repeated one in my apartment is: "So how is that one different from the other 3 you have that look the same?"

Luckily my long-winded and overly-detailed answers prompt her to wander off and I can get back to carefully tracking prices on M3s (I blame Frank and Dave and all the rest of the excessively kind Toronto-area RFF-ers who let me paw their Leicas last Saturday!)

 

[xcapekey]

my SO thinks i'm nuts and has stopped asking me about the cameras i buy...but she did happen to notice the large drum print dryer that found its way on the dining room table 🙂

 

[brightsky]

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My #1 favorite: "No, don't tell me. I don't want to know how much it cost." 😎