Hipsters and hasselblads

[Steve@f8]

Anal-hog.

 

[AnselMortensen]

I'm a pre-hipster hipster... since before it was cool, then became uncool, and then became whatever it is now...of which I really don't care.
I have a Hasselblad.
I have owned numerous Hasselblads since the '80's.
So there!

Also..the English language is constantly changing & evolving...words come and go, meanings change...whether some folks like it or not....
Analog vs. Digital, whatever...
"Gay" means something completely different now than it did in 1895, for example.
Egad and forsooth, your gnarly verbal fisticuffs are harshing my groovy mellow, you dig?

 

[Sirius Glass]

I've heard photo shoot my whole life. I also use the word shoot.

As for the barista, did you order your coffee black?

A friend of mine liked his coffee really sweet. It's the only way he would drink it. One day he was in a truck stop dumping several packets of sugar in his coffee. The Trucker seated next to him asked if he was building a cake.

When the barista asks me if I want shots with that I reply that I will take two shots of tequila straight. Then I get the stupidest look from them while they work on figuring it out.

 

[KenS]

I do not have wide hips.

If they are somewhat 'small' and 'reddish' in colour you should be able to call them "Rose hips

Ken... (aka "bad Ken")

 

[NB23]

Illuminating truth: today’s hipsters are yesterday’s Rockabillies. Both are nostalgic for a life that happened 30-40 years before their time.

The Rockabillies in the 90s were nostalgic for the 50-60s while the Hipsters are nostalgic for the 80-90s.

I’d love to be alive in 2060, to witness the Coronabillies (or Covidsters?).

What will they look like, you might ask? Easy answer: the Coronabillies will have a roll of toilet paper on their heads, and blue masks on their faces.

 

[Alan Gales]

About hipsters wanting old stuff, I had an uncle who grew up on a farm. He said that he had old stuff all his life including hand me downs from his older brothers. He wanted new stuff!

I wanted a Hasselblad 500/cm when I was young but settled on a Contax 139 due to lack of funds. I eventually did own a Hasselblad 500/cm after digital came out. I think a lot of us like old things that we couldn't afford to own when we were young.

Now if I can just find a cheap 1967 Corvette Roadster, 4 speed, 427 with a six pack! Red with tan interior and top while I'm dreaming.

 

[BobD]

I was selling at a local camera show and a young lady came up to my table, picked up an old camera and held its little red window up to her eye as she struggled to peer into it while pointing the camera here and there.

“It's so dark! How do you focus it?”

 

[removed account4]

As for the barista, did you order your coffee black?

A friend of mine liked his coffee really sweet. It's the only way he would drink it. One day he was in a truck stop dumping several packets of sugar in his coffee. The Trucker seated next to him asked if he was building a cake.

Hi Alan
As a former coffee schlep I only drink coffee black ( haven't put milk in it on my own for a long time ). Well that's sort of a lie, I used to go to the local dunks and get barely any skim milk put in it cause its like 213ºF coming out of the pitcher and it was to make it barely cold enough to drink .. but they'd always give me a " regggahla" or "extra-extra" cause the 16year olds working at every dunk seems to have been afflicted with "boy on the brain" so if I do buy a coffee its black again. I tend not to go the dunk but a *$, not only does it cost less because I know they descale / clean their machines, I don't think they do that at the dunk. Your friend sounds funny, like the lady in front of use once said " more than a 7 and 7, when you think you put too much in, keep going " ( incase you didn't know a 7 and 7 is 7 creams and 7 shuggas ). Your friend was just making a coffee confectionary treat.

 

[Huss]

I was selling at a local camera show and a young lady came up to my table, picked up an old camera and held its little red window up to her eye as she struggled to peer into it while pointing the camera here and there.

“It's so dark! How do you focus it?”

I didn't know what the red window was for either when I started out. And there are so many different shapes/sizes/types of cameras that it is easy to get confused by them.

I assume you helped her.

 

[Alan Gales]

Hi Alan
As a former coffee schlep I only drink coffee black ( haven't put milk in it on my own for a long time ). Well that's sort of a lie, I used to go to the local dunks and get barely any skim milk put in it cause its like 213ºF coming out of the pitcher and it was to make it barely cold enough to drink .. but they'd always give me a " regggahla" or "extra-extra" cause the 16year olds working at every dunk seems to have been afflicted with "boy on the brain" so if I do buy a coffee its black again. I tend not to go the dunk but a *$, not only does it cost less because I know they descale / clean their machines, I don't think they do that at the dunk. Your friend sounds funny, like the lady in front of use once said " more than a 7 and 7, when you think you put too much in, keep going " ( incase you didn't know a 7 and 7 is 7 creams and 7 shuggas ). Your friend was just making a coffee confectionary treat.

Hello John,

My father in law jointly owned a service station with another fellow. They always made coffee for the employees and the customers. A couple times they were broken into at night and change was stolen out of the register. At closing they started putting the change into a coffee cup and putting it up on a shelf instead of leaving it in the register. They would empty the coffee cup into the register in the morning. A regular customer came in one day and grabbed the same coffee cup and poured him some coffee before anyone could warn him. He said it was good coffee.

After my father in law retired, the owner of the property sold the land to Starbucks. My father in law said that he thought he did fine charging for mechanic work and gas and giving away the coffee. He should have charged for the coffee and made a fortune.

My daughter ended up working at that same Starbucks as a barista while going to community college. She graduated MS&T at Rolla and is now an electrical engineer. She still buys coffee from that Starbucks.

 

[eli griggs]

Back in the 1990's, I was taking shots outside the college's newish auditorium, with an old rangefinder with a multi-lens viewfinder mounted.

A well dressed man walked by and asked if my camera was a Leica?

No, I told him, "Its a Fed 4..."

He could no walk away fast enough... LOL, then and now!

Cheers.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I do not have wide hips.

Do my hips make me look fat or does my fat make me look fat?

 

[BradS]

Do my hips make me look fat or does my fat make me look fat?

No...I think it's the jeans!

 

[BradS]

A long time ago, I was visiting Keeble and Shuchat in Palo Alto and one of the sales people let me hold a Hasselblad - a brand new one with the standard 80m lens. It felt so good, was such a perfect fit...I thought I might have to have it surgically removed. Then he asked for my credit card....and that camera nearly jumped outta my hand and back onto the display case!

 

[BrianShaw]

No...I think it's the jeans!

I think spell corrector got you... genes.

 

[GarageBoy]

Hipsters (and everyone under the age of 40) nowadays say "analog". "Film" is dead - at least as a word in the dictionary
As an EE by profession, I hate that word "analog" to describe film!

To be fair, this website is the "analog photography user group", though I personally prefer film/chemical/emulsive

120mm bothers me so much. Like think about how big 120mm is for a second

 

[NB23]

Smaller than 135mm

To be fair, this website is the "analog photography user group", though I personally prefer film/chemical/emulsive

120mm bothers me so much. Like think about how big 120mm is for a second

 

[itsdoable]

Hipsters (and everyone under the age of 40) nowadays say "analog". "Film" is dead - at least as a word in the dictionary
As an EE by profession, I hate that word "analog" to describe film!

I guess that depends on where you are. A young hip person asked me if I was shooting film (I was carrying an x-pan). I've never heard it called analog photography here, it's (still) always been film.

 

[bernard_L]

More on the various names of film photography.
In 2011, observing at ESO's Paranal observatory in northern Chile; using the four Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs, 1.8m diameter). Sunset, time to open the domes. Asked the operator to halt the opening of the ATs so I could take a picture with that transient Pac-Man look. Walk up to platform, talkie-walkie to communicate the ideal moment for stopping the domes; take pics (GS645W); go back down to control room.

Operator: Se puede ver las fotos? -- Can we see the pictures?
Me: No, siento, hay que revelarlas. -- Sorry, need to develop them first.
Operator: Ha, que son fotos de verdad. -- Ha, they're photos for real.​

Disclaimer: in the above I'm not picturing the Chilean operator as a naive native. First, we spoke Spanish as a matter of convenience, so at least one of us spoke his native language; all operators are fluent in English, much more so than the average visiting scientist is in Spanish. Second, all operators have University degrees.

 

[Tel]

A beautiful photo. Personally, I've always liked the application of "real" to film cameras.

 

[Kodachromeguy]

A beautiful photo. Personally, I've always liked the application of "real" to film cameras.

+1000. I still use the nomenclature that Mike Johnston of Online Photographer suggested. Capture via a chemical medium on film or glass (or tin?) is photography. Capture on some sort of CCD or CMOS device is digital imaging.

 

[grat]

A beautiful photo. Personally, I've always liked the application of "real" to film cameras.

Does that mean my DSLR is imaginary?

 

[bernard_L]

Does that mean my DSLR is imaginary?

I stopped just short of that next step. So you are responsible for feeding the troll.

 

[jerrybro]

Does that mean my DSLR is imaginary?

No, but the pictures are.

 

[Arthurwg]

I used to order my coffee "Regular." That meant some milk and sugar. There were some variations, like "Light and Sweet." This was before we had the word "Barista."