whats on your night table?

[cmogi10]

M6+35 Biogon
Wild Turkey 101

 

[Doug]

Analog alarm clock, made in China. No 45ACP any more, as my wife says it makes her nervous due to my active sleep...

 

[etrigan63]

HD Radio/Alarm Clock
Giant stack of magazines
No room for lamp, so I can't read the magazines. :bang:

 

[kuzano]

A Walther PPK... Once I discovered fine engineering, the S&W and ACP just didn't cut it. Of course, I don't have the knockdown power, but the action is so much smoother. I may move it under the pillow and park my Kiev (Kneb) there instead. Right beside my Zenobia R rangefinder folder 120.

 

[literiter]

Nice reading lamp made from a converted Aladin oil lamp, Blow gun with darts from Madagaskar (I think), $1.75 for coffee tomorrow, A magazine article about Halloween my Wife wants me to read, A notebook, "The Black and White Handbook" by Roger Hicks and Frances Schultz (very good!) , "The Fabric of the Cosmos" by Brian Green (good too!) a partially finished glass of cheap red wine and an antique clock with electronic innards.

Oddly, no guns and no cameras.

 

[hammerman]

cordless drill, tape measure, box of tissues, three remotes, one sock and a notepad and biro in case i think of something i need to do tomorrow.

 

[peterm1]

This is not actually a set up (well apart from clearing some crud away.) My wife is away so what do you take to bed when your wife is away? Your cameras of course. (Sad but true.)

 

[bottley1]

a nice digital radio in walnut surround, loads of back issues of LFI, and my current book(s) (I am going through an antartica phase at the moment - Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton, etc)

 

[faris]

None of the above

None of the above

night table?..i sleep on the floor. next to me is my walking stick. becomes crowded
when my wife joins me!! the walking stick comes in real handy then!!

 

[Pherdinand]

Oh, and right now there's a Kiev IIa sitting there 'cause I was looking at it last night, trying to spot an obvious reason why the RF is so thoroughly out of alignment (a recently received eBay acquisition). Since I know nothing of Contax, Kiev or even Nikon RFs, I remain as clueless as I was before looking.

...Mike

Mike, there might be an easy fix for that.
Release a bit the two screws under/on the front rf window. Do not tkae them out, just release. Then you will be able to mve the little lens until the alignment is better, and re-tighten the screws.
Something like this (writing from looong time ago memories).
The Kiev survival site has a good description about this trick, i think.

 

[Pablito]

I suppose it's not uncommon in the U.S. to have guns next to one's bed but it is a little shocking, at least to me, seeing people write about it in a forum like this. I wonder if anyone NOT in the U.S. has a gun next to their bed.

 

[Pherdinand]

I too have a gun next to my bed, otherwise can't keep the girls off my bed.

 

[peterm1]

Yeah, but what's all that riff raff in front of the Pentax. They just block a good view of a truly fine camera.

Sitemistic you are right about those early Pentaxes. Great cameras and great lenses. The only complaint I ever read about Pentax M42 lenses is that they were not quite as sharp in the corners as Leicas. Not sure about this but I do know they are lovely to use and give uncompromising results. I recall buying some old camera magazines from the 1970s second hand in a junk store. I mainly bought them for lens articles and tests. In one, the MTF curves for the 200mm f4 SMC Takumar was the best I have ever seen apart from some of Leicas top glass and that was for Leica lenses that were not developed in the 1970s yet.

 

[wgerrard]

A translation of "Have Mercy On Us All" by French novelist Fred Vargas. She (it's a pseudonym) writes mysteries centered on an atypical Paris police detective named Adamsberg. This one has to do with a someone faking the return of the Black Plague. Or, maybe not, I haven't finished it. Good stuff; not easy to find in the States.

 

[peterm1]

I used to belong to a gun club in Australia and especially enjoyed using muzzleloaders. So there was a time when I could have claimed to have had a firearm in my nightstand. (Hmm- from muzzle loaderss to old cameras, I think I see a pattern here!) But our club also shot combat and practical pistol so to scratch that particular itch I bought a mint condition Webley in .38 Colt calibre. You can also see a pattern here - much prefer an old classic to a modern weapon. Wow was that thing accurate - piddly cartridge though. Lot of fun though. Eventually after a major massacre by a nut case, the Gov tightened up gun laws enough to make me decide to get out of the sport. I had been involved in gunsports since I was a kid growing up in the country, shooting rabbits and sparrows, so I think I had about outgrown it anyway.

So I sold my guns and bought cameras. This hobby is lots more socially acceptable, even though I got a lot of my kicks in my backyard shed, actually building / stocking guns rather than shooting them.

I really do not mind the tough new rules, as with all due respect to our American friends, I did not want Australia to go down that path and sooner we have tough gun laws in Australia rather than have every man and his wife "packing a piece" (Do not get upset, I make no comment about U.S. gun policy, that's one for you folk to grapple with! Just glad the problem is not mine.)

 

[MikeL]

Am I the only honest one here?

Porn.

 

[MikeL]

Yeah, my wife wouldn't be so keen with it anyways. My mainstays on the night table are a few Onion Volumes. Some good articles in there: The Onion

 

[MickH]

...Here in Texas many of us have Carry Concealed licenses...

So without one of those licenses you have to walk the streets with your weapon on open display?

BTW my bedside table has a glass of water, an internet radio and currently a copy of "Love Me" by Garrison Keillor upon it.

Cheers.

 

[Wimpler]

A 5x7 inch enlarger

 

[merlin]

The Man Who Shot Garbo, the Hollywood photographs of Clarence Sinclair Bull. Contains and explains the wonderful 8x10 work of one of MGM's master still photographers during the Hollywood studio's heyday. The book looks nice under the reading lamp, and the stuff within, the subject lighting, truly magnificent!