The phenomenon of spontaneous generation

[butch]

From 1962 -1973 I muddled along with an Exakta with a 58mm Biotar. Then a Miranda, then on OM1. All was well. Picked up a IIIc then an M3 then a ...... Still as I aged and kids were raised and schooled, mortages paid, stuff continued to accumulate. Light meters began to appear and every move to pare down resulted in more stuff. One scanner led to three. Straps hang on every chair back. Open my safe and it looks like Captain Kirk's locker after the invasion of the Tribbles. Tripods fall bringing several step-down rings and a handful of filters after them. I'm not the only one so possesed. I see forumers who profess to be destitute yet below their post is a list of $25.00 cameras that would rival the inventory of most pawn shops. A few years hence and their raisin's paid for, they'll have Rolleiflexes and Nikons and Canons and Leicas.

This is not a rant or complaint. Just an observation of a condition that I share with most folks, evidently in about every nation in this world. And loving every minute of, too.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

You found the right place.

It must come from reading all those Modern Photography and Popular Photography magazines as kids, when mowing lawns and delivering papers could only accommodate so much.

So years later, with "expendable income", we play catch-up.

Or it was potty-training problems.