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Are you a photography masochist?

I bough a 2021 Yamaha FJR1300ES last year and now have over 14,500 miles on it. I get about 54 mpg on regular.

As for driving on those roads that are laid out on section lines. I don’t have a problem with that. I certainly have fun on the twisties but last summer when I did a 7,000-mile trip from Montana to Pittsburgh to Madawaska, Maine and back to Pittsburgh and the UP of Michigan to Internataion Falls, MN, after that it was all those section line roads as I traveled just south of the Canadian border to Plentywood, MT before heading south to Billings. It has its own form of charm. BTW, that trip was all on 2-lane roads.

When it comes to a scenic ride, I head up the Beartooth Highway which is an hour from my house. Go across the the pass (11,000 ft) and down the other side to the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway. That finishes up just north of Cody, WY and it’s a straight shot north back to Billings. It’s just under a 300-mile day ride. I did it numerous time last year and it never gets old.
 

Custom riveted Volvo wagon shot with the incomparable Kodak Ektar H35

 

If I do this where I live, I end up in a canal after the second turn, and might get home by floating on the water driven by the current (without motorcycle), which could be really funny and not so masochistic ...
 
I get 58 mpg in my BMW 116 diesel car.
Am I a masochist and a spendthrift with a very light right foot?
 
I love 4WD. Waste's gas but goes everywhere at spur of moment, though that's kinda ridiculous in something as comfortable as my latest (Ford Escape). My destinations were often on Navajo Rez until covid lockdown (Navajo and Pueblo folks are not as safe from Covid as are most folks).
 

My Rubicon 6 speed manual transmission on the Rubicon, taken with a Fuji GW690III. Using that now discontinued Shanghai 400 220 film - full on masochist!


 
I am pretty sure that I am a masochist. Aside from my aforementioned habits, I am a vegetarian AND a Californian living in Montana.

BTW, Huss, that Volvo wagon is pretty cool.
 

Thanks for the laugh............. apropos no doubt.

I took a beginning photo class a few years ago, using digital cameras.
The teacher was laughing, watching me trying to manual focus a modern AF camera with no focus aids.
Having never owned an AF Camera, it simply never occurred to me to let the camera do the work.
 

Never thought of it like this but, yup.

Cameras used recently?

Nikon F, no meter

Yashica MG-1 that meters a half stop off

Univex Mercury that is a pain to load and a pain to adjust and shoot, no meter, no focus

Signet 35, no meter, RF is questionable

Signet 50, no meter, no focus

OM-1, no meter

Canon T50 because sometime I wake up and hate everything

Mamiya M645 with 220, meter is a full stop off and the thing is the least ergonomic camera I own

Kodak fling 110 with reloaded 110 carts.

Vito II, no meter, no focus aid.

Mamiya 16 but I don't have a cassette so I cut a 35mm reel down until it was just a dowel and made it work

Instamatic 60, has an RF and is great if you have eyes like a hawk. I wear glasses.

Bronica S2. On a hike. No meter. Loaded with Ilford Delta 3200

Minolta SRT 200, no meter

Pentax Spotmatic II with soviet lenses. Have meter, need to stop down manually.

This is the past two months or so. I shot a few 'normal' cameras but I keep gravitating to the difficult ones.
 
If the stuff I ordered to fire up the Minolta 16P doesn’t salve my masochism enough, I can get out my Bolsey Model B2. No built in meter but it did come with Snapshot Kodaguide.

 
For street photography zone focusing for me is faster and more reliable than AF. As long as I can get around 3 feet of dof I can usually nail the focus with a 28mm or wider. AE is still useful to me. I have a lot of practice shooting with a Hasselblad SWC handheld.
 
VinceInMT said:
If the stuff I ordered to fire up the Minolta 16P doesn’t salve my masochism enough, I can get out my Bolsey Model B2. No built in meter but it did come with Snapshot Kodaguide.
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Photographers exploring formats beyond 35mm might find 16mm somewhat less masochistic compared to MF or LF, at least from the standpoint of their billfold.

Check out the film gate on the Bolsey. The ones I've encountered have rounded frame corners; they look great on a contact sheet.
 

Try reloading 110 with 16mm and 110 backing paper in a dark bag. And getting the perfs aligned correctly for the specific camera. And then loading it into the camera the dark too because a self cracked 110 cart will always leak. Then load the film onto a really trash Yankee Clipper reel and hope that it doesn't fall off at some point. Scanning is another pain. All for some low quality grainy out of focus photos.

And you do it again the next day!
 

Some people like a bit of a challenge.
 
My perfectly fine Sony A7II spends all it’s time on a copy stand. It’s main purpose is to scan negatives. I used it once for an outing but missed the challenge of film.
 

Where's the "like" button?
 
Huss said:
Where's the "like" button?
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The people here left junior high school decades ago. That idea gets shot down at this website on a regular basis.
 
Sirius Glass said:
Some people like a bit of a challenge.
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Huss said:
Where's the "like" button?
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Need I mention my film safe dark room is located in my attic in a luggage closet and in the summer it gets to 100+ degrees humid and no airflow? When do I need that room? In the summer. At night. When it's hottest. There's also a metal pipe that supposed to be a hanger line at the same height as the back of my head.

Now picture all that with hand slitting and re-rolling 70mm down to 120. I can do about 4 rolls before I've soaked through and start messing up the film. I've got a collection of 80's sweatbands that come into good use.

Just in case anyone is reading that has a stash of 70mm bulk in there freezer. Give me a DM, I'm interested.
 

I think this what’s called suffering for your art. The most I do is sit on the floor using a dark tent in an air conditioned room to load a single reel tank.
 

During the summer I have to wait for a cool enough morning to develop film or have to put on the air conditioner. We all must suffer for our creativity but you make it more of an adventure. You meant PM not DM, right?
 
madNbad said:
I think this what’s called suffering for your art. The most I do is sit on the floor using a dark tent in an air conditioned room to load a single reel tank.
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Dark tent? What is this? Oh, that would be awesome but I need enough room to get that full 2.5 feet stretched out. I have a full sized table up there. Rolling your own 120 ain't no joke. You need room.

Sirius Glass said:
During the summer I have to wait for a cool enough morning to develop film or have to put on the air conditioner. We all must suffer for our creativity but you make it more of an adventure. You meant PM not DM, right?
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Last summer I installed a window unit. This summer I've been a little lazy and have been suffering for my laziness

Private message, direct message. I get my terms confused. Sure, PM.
 

 
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