Are you a photography masochist?

[Duceman]

You're looking at your AF slr. Great lens. Always gives sharp, perfectly exposed pics. Always gives you the results you want. And yet you pick up that manual everything, no meter, maybe even guess focus relic..
Why do you do that to yourself?
Guilty as charged.

Good question. One I've asked myself many a time.

 

[VinceInMT]

Where did you find the Minolta cartridge and film? FFP?

https://filmphotographystore.com/collections/all/minolta-16

 

[Sirius Glass]

Because perfection is boring.

Only because you cannot reach it?

 

[snusmumriken]

You're looking at your AF slr. Great lens. Always gives sharp, perfectly exposed pics. Always gives you the results you want. And yet you pick up that manual everything, no meter, maybe even guess focus relic..
Why do you do that to yourself?
Guilty as charged.

Also guilty, except I do like a rudimentary meter. I reason to myself that if wonderful photos were taken with mechanical cameras by far better photographers than me, it would be presumptuous of me to go for anything more advanced.

 

[Huss]

Auto transmissions get as good or better mileage than a manual transmission.

You sound like someone who'd use an AF SLR!

;P

The early auto trans cars got worse mileage, now the ones with 6/7/8 speed auto trans which are computer controlled get better mileage and shift quicker than manual.
But that's not the point! Er...

 

[Huss]

I'm getting rid of the rest of my film cameras that take batteries, the exceptions being Olympus XA and XA4 (too many good shots with the XA, and I like the macro and 28mm on the XA4). I haven't used a light meter, even on 8x10, in years. BUT, it'll be a cold day in hell before I everyday-drive a manual transmission car again... too much work for no reward when you live in a big city (one example from 2001: coming up out of a 5 level underground parking garage spiral, in a continuous line of bumper-to-bumper cars, in a stall-prone 1967 Datsun wagon with 4 on the floor ). If I were in the mountains or something, maybe...

Both my cars are manual transmission. And I live in that bastion of little traffic - Los Angeles.

Been eyeing a Triumph TR6. But I'll have to plan my break downs at the top of the hill so I can coast home.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Both my cars are manual transmission. And I live in that bastion of little traffic - Los Angeles.

Been eyeing a Triumph TR6. But I'll have to plan my break downs at the top of the hill so I can coast home.

Get Southern California AAA Premium Towing service which includes up to four long distance tows: three 100 mile tows and one 200 mile tow. It will be worth if for you.

 

[madNbad]

Both my cars are manual transmission. And I live in that bastion of little traffic - Los Angeles.

Been eyeing a Triumph TR6. But I'll have to plan my break downs at the top of the hill so I can coast home.

One time a friend and I were coming down a hill in his TR-3a when I looked out the window and saw his right rear wheel passing us. He continued working on that car and eventually built it into a successful business.
https://ragtops.com

 

[grat]

Auto transmissions get as good or better mileage than a manual transmission.

But you'll still never experience the satisfaction of hitting a corner at exactly the right rpm and gear, and accelerating out on a perfect slingshot of acceleration.

But, much like film, people would rather focus on the negatives (see what I did there?) than the positives, and prefer something they don't have to think about, to something as elegant and satisfying as a well-tuned manual gearbox.

 

[grat]

One time a friend and I were coming down a hill in his TR-3a when I looked out the window and saw his right rear wheel passing us. He continued working on that car and eventually built it into a successful business.
https://ragtops.com

Was my rear left on my MGB-GT. Had to chase the tire half a mile up the road. Two of the lugnuts came off within 15 feet of each other on the road behind me. Then I had to explain the flat spot on my brake drum to the mechanics doing my brakes.

 

[Sirius Glass]

But you'll still never experience the satisfaction of hitting a corner at exactly the right rpm and gear, and accelerating out on a perfect slingshot of acceleration.

But, much like film, people would rather focus on the negatives (see what I did there?) than the positives, and prefer something they don't have to think about, to something as elegant and satisfying as a well-tuned manual gearbox.

Focusing sharply on the negatives makes for better enlargement prints. You might consider trying at some point.

 

[faberryman]

But, much like film, people would rather focus on the negatives (see what I did there?) than the positives, and prefer something they don't have to think about, to something as elegant and satisfying as a well-tuned manual gearbox.

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. Driving a car with something as elegant and satisfying as a well-tuned manual gearbox is unlikely to come up in your discussion with St. Peter. Lucifer, perhaps.

 

[grat]

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. Driving a car with something as elegant and satisfying as a well-tuned manual gearbox is unlikely to come up in your discussion with St. Peter. Lucifer, perhaps.

Really..? .... I have no words for how incomprehensible that segue was.

 

[Huss]

Get Southern California AAA Premium Towing service which includes up to four long distance tows: three 100 mile tows and one 200 mile tow. It will be worth if for you.

So... what will I do on the second week of owning the TR6?

 

[Sirius Glass]

Well, I named my car "Eloquent". That way if I am working on that vehicle and the home phone rings, the person answering the phone can say, "He is not available now, he is just waxing Eloquent."

 

[Huss]

But you'll still never experience the satisfaction of hitting a corner at exactly the right rpm and gear, and accelerating out on a perfect slingshot of acceleration.

Still haven't achieved that in a car!

interestingly - no problem with a motorbike.

 

[Sirius Glass]

So... what will I do on the second week of owning the TR6?

Buy good comfortable walking shoes.

 

[Huss]

Well, I named my car "Eloquent". That way if I am working on that vehicle and the home phone rings, the person answering the phone can say, "He is not available now, he is just waxing Eloquent."

I once had a pet moose that I called Knuckles.

 

[Huss]

Buy good comfortable walking shoes.

I was thinking more on the line of having the gf practice our hitch-hiking routine.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I once had a pet moose that I called Knuckles.

... {pause} Speechless {/pause}

 

[Huss]

... {pause} Speechless {/pause}

got along surprisingly well with Spank my monkey.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I plan on naming my next dog "Such a good dog".

 

[Huss]

I plan on naming my next dog "Such a good dog".

Gonna name my next pet Peeve

 

[grat]

I plan on naming my next dog "Such a good dog".

Well, it's better than naming the dog "Stay".

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Every time I hoist the 14x17 up onto the "can hold a tank" tripod, yes.