• Welcome to Photrio!
    Registration is fast and free. Join today to unlock search, see fewer ads, and access all forum features.
    Click here to sign up

Big problem with equipment! Help!!

Latest Gallery

Tompkins Square Park

A
Tompkins Square Park

  • 8
  • 0
  • 75
Siesta Time

A
Siesta Time

  • 2
  • 1
  • 57

Recent Classifieds

Forum statistics

Threads
202,859
Messages
2,846,704
Members
101,574
Latest member
JRSCollection
Recent bookmarks
0
Get a girlfriend... she'll spend your every penny... GAS problem solved. :D
 
That's why you need more than one hobby.

Have you ever fabricated a telescope mirror? Look up Texereau
 
in another area, its called acquisition disorder. Here we might have CAD (camera), LAD (lens), TAD (tripod), FAD (film), PAD (paper)ChAD (chemistry)... if the spending doesn't jeopardize other important priorities, you use most of it. 'Call it good. Make beautiful stuff & get it up on the gallery.
Naturally, none of us has any such disorder... (queue music from Pinochio)
 
hahahahaha ive got the same disease. my closets are full of all my hobbie's stuff and ive been filling the garage with an equal zest.

that urge is a constant pull like gravity.

my wife had a sugestion many years ago. she told me to buy a bull dozer to park way in the back of the garage. when the garage gets too full of my crap, all id have to do is drive the dozer up to the curb and back her up n start over again.

oh and of course we can never ever sell off our treasures!

good luck.

what are you buying yourself for christmass?

hahahahaha
 
1st world problem if I ever heard one.
Sell it all and start over.


Sent with typotalk
 
Do any of your cameras need a CLA?

Not only do you get to wait for something... you get to wait for something you know and miss.

Do you have enough finishing supplies and picture frames?
 
Get about a dozen identical shipping boxes. Carefully pack each with equipment (or have someone else do it), put the cheapest (slowest) insured shipping/postage you can find on each, and mix up the boxes so you don't know which is which.

Then ship them to yourself one-by-one.

Repeat as necessary.
 
I have four lusts... LF photo, RC aircraft, A/V and cars. I don't have enough money to satisfy even one of those lusts. What... am... I... to... do...???
 
Sirius Glass said:
I have all the cameras I need.
I do not need anything, but I still have the urge to order something on internet and wait for it to be delivered! What should I do??

Help!!! I am in a crisis state! Please send ideas!
Click to expand...

Get a nice website and a scanner. Post your pictures so we can enjoy them as well. :laugh:
 
I love the Hasselblad 903 SWC [38mm] and its rectilinear correctness, but there are not a lot of situations to use it. So do I really need that Hasselblad C 30mm Fisheye lens? <<sigh>>
 
Sirius Glass said:
I love the Hasselblad 903 SWC [38mm] and its rectilinear correctness, but there are not a lot of situations to use it. So do I really need that Hasselblad C 30mm Fisheye lens? <<sigh>>
Click to expand...

Hmmm...to my surprise I use my SWC far more often than I thought - both for architecture and for what I would call "near landscape". Anyway, if you're not using the SWC much, you'll hardly ever use a 30mm. It's ok if you just want to collect it. Can you think of 12 shots right now you'd use the 30mm for?
 
Theo Sulphate said:
Hmmm...to my surprise I use my SWC far more often than I thought - both for architecture and for what I would call "near landscape". Anyway, if you're not using the SWC much, you'll hardly ever use a 30mm. It's ok if you just want to collect it. Can you think of 12 shots right now you'd use the 30mm for?
Click to expand...

In five decades, I have only come up with four or five situations that I would use the 30mm lens. But the price is so good! :laugh:
 
It is a sexy looking lens. You know you want to buy it. Besides, if you feel guilty later you'll always be able to sell it. After all, these lenses aren't as common as Holgas. :whistling:
 
I could buy it, shoot several rolls of film and return it, but I will not do that. If I do not plan on keeping it, I will not buy it. I could rent one too, but I will not.
 
Sirius Glass said:
I could buy it, shoot several rolls of film and return it, but I will not do that. If I do not plan on keeping it, I will not buy it. I could rent one too, but I will not.
Click to expand...

I hear you. Aside from an Argus C-3 I sold when I was 18, I've kept every camera and lens I've ever bought, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part.
 
I tend to keep things too, but I never owned very much photographic gear so I didn't accumulate as much as some of you fellas. I also try to sell what I am not using anymore, but most of it is pretty much worthless.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Photrio.com contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.
To read our full affiliate disclosure statement please click Here.

PHOTRIO PARTNERS EQUALLY FUNDING OUR COMMUNITY:
Ilford ADOX Freestyle Photographic Stearman Press Weldon Color Lab Blue Moon Camera & Machine
Top Bottom