You know photography has taken over your life when...

[FallisPhoto]

You know photography has taken over your life when...

1. Your significant other walks into the bedroom, nude, carrying a can of whipped cream in one hand and a jar of cherries in the other and you leap out of bed -- to get a camera.

2. Someone utters a sentence containing the word "scheimpflug" and you not only understand what he said, but can tell he doesn't.

3. You just bought a new refrigerator -- because your old one no longer has room in it for food.

4. You just can't understand why everyone doesn't use the zone system -- after all, it's so easy.

5. You have just risked serious injury for a photo. You lost. The spray of blood in front of the lens ruined your shot. You're planning to reshoot it when you get out of the hospital.

6. You've been eating ramen noodles for two weeks so you can buy film -- so have your wife and kids. Somehow, the prospect of acquiring 100 rolls of Portra doesn't seem to excite them as much as it does you.

7. Going to bed involves moving six cameras.

Feel free to add more...

 

[antiquark]

You sell your blood plasma twice a week to buy film (like Jacob Holdt did in the 1970's)
http://www.american-pictures.com/english/intro/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Holdt

 

[jke]

You spend 45 minutes discussing camera settings in Bryant Park with a gorgeous woman from Tokyo who was confused by her new-used Nikon F she just bought and you never got her name but you memorized the serial number on her camera.

It was an early model F Photomic. 🙂

 

[FrankS]

... you spend as much time on RFF as you do.

... in your briefcase today you were carrying 3 cameras. (Okay, one was a digital P+S.)

... you keep a camera in your desk at work.

 

[russianRF]

When your significant other has given up "hinting" that rows of boxes of film are not traditional/suitable home decor.

 

[back alley]

when your other tattoo spells out rff...

 

[gavinlg]

you wake up every morning and with a morning coffee, wade your way through new RFF posts

 

[gb hill]

You know photography has taken over your life when...

1. Your significant other walks into the bedroom, nude, carrying a can of whipped cream in one hand and a jar of cherries in the other and you leap out of bed -- to get a camera

.....or, not right now! (while checking out new acquisition off ebay or the classifieds).

 

[maddoc]

... you have a camera on your desk at work on top of a stack of the most important papers.

... your cellphone contains more photos of your cameras than of your gf / wife / family / kids / friends.


(Like me ... 🙂)

 

[capitalK]

... your dreams are all seen through a viewfinder.

 

[chippy]

This is how cruel rumours start, all of these things are completely normal, everybody does these things except people that take up knitting for a hobby--(i have pictures to prove it!).

i dont eat noodles either-yuk--i feed them to the kids, its for a good cause and they know it--i eat generic baked beans and canned tomato soup thank you very much! and i dont have to move 6 cameras to go to bed....hardly ever, its simply a matter of planning and making sure there is a walking path beforehand

photography is a barely noticable part of my life and i have pictures to prove that too!

 

[Al Kaplan]

Someplace under the cameras here are a dining table and two of its chairs, plus a wing chair and foot stool, and an end table. The bedroom has bookcases full of photo and fishing books, and the spare bedroom has a couple of bookcases full of old cameras, but you can't get to them. There are too many fishing rods in the way. Women cringe when they come in here. I explain that my house has reached a state of equilibrium ~ you track out as much dirt as you track in. Anybody want to swap their used wife for really nice 3 1/4 X 4 1/4 Graflex SLR with an uncoated lens for that popular vintage look? One with a recent CLA prefered, but I don't mind a few minor cosmetic defects. We can always buy new cosmetics.

 

[Melvin]

When your breath smells like hypo.

 

[nikon_sam]

When one of your kid's friends asks if you could take a look at their camera because they dropped it in something and now it doesn't work...
I took a look at it...it's working just fine now...

 

[Keith]

When you can judge how much sleep you're getting by looking up in the top right hand corner of the RFF home page first thing in the morning while sipping your coffee! ...


Welcome, XXXXX.
You last visited: xx Hours xx Minutes Ago at xx.xx


😛

 

[Mr_Flibble]

...when given a choice between buying a new TV, new curtains, paying bill or another camera; Camera wins every time.

*hides his 'new' Ihagee Kine Exacta from the tax collector*

 

[jonmanjiro]

If the question was "You know photographic equipment has taken over your life when..."

You already have at least 10 cameras, but there's a whole lot more that you'd like to try shooting with just for the sake of it 😀

 

[dwaoka]

sometimes you shoot one or two empty frames just to hear that sound...

 

[Bill58]

..........when you check out RFF ten or more times a day or you're just bored!

 

[Jan Van Laethem]

When on your way to and from work all you see are potential pictures you never get to take.

When you dream and all you see is a succession of frames.

When every time you visit your local camera store, you stand for 10 minutes glaring in the shop window drooling over the new cameras on display. The shopkeeper has already warned you several times not to leave any marks on the windows.