Selling a film camera on Craigslist...

Roger Cole · May 12, 2014

ignatiu5 said:
Ive been thinking about this. I wonder if its simply a terminology issue. Suspend for a moment our knowledge that 35mm film comes in rolls. What if the buyer simply understands a different word for a unit of film, for example a cartridge or cassette?

If you think film comes in cartridges (and if your last camera was an APS, that would be a common term), and the seller tells you that theyve put several rolls through the camera and everything is working fine, I could potentially see how someone might think that rolls might be things (rollers, gears, part of the transport mechanism, something that turns?) that need to be replaced on occasion in order for the camera to work properly.

That's one possibility.

In the past, 120 (and 127 etc, paper backed film that came on a spool) was called "roll film" to distinguish it from both sheet film and 35mm.

But everyone I know who shoots or shot 35mm does refer to them as rolls as well, and always did.

Still, APS, 126, 110 all come to mind as film that came in cartridges that a not-so-technical user might not realize were "rolls."

Rick A · May 12, 2014

BrianShaw said:
Is it a cake hole or a pie hole? I've always been confused about that, yet I know I have a distinct preference.

I love pie, I have a pie hole. I don't care for cake, you have a cake hole.

StoneNYC · May 12, 2014

Tom1956 said:
Stone--you young whippersnappers might have your youth still, but I wouldn't trade my blessing of being a 12 1/2 year old boy in the summer of '69. I've posted this link before, I'm sure. But I still go back and watch the whole 10 min video of it every year or so. Give it a go, for the whole 10 mins,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGNryrsT7OI

Would rather have been 18 in '69 ... Oh the girls!!! Lol

StoneNYC · May 12, 2014

BrianShaw said:
Is it a cake hole or a pie hole? I've always been confused about that, yet I know I have a distinct preference.

I think cake hole is more aggressive and angry/nasty and pie hole is more slapstick and lighter and was used more in early comedies.

That's how I feel when I hear it.

Rick A · May 12, 2014

StoneNYC said:
Would rather have been 18 in '69 ... Oh the girls!!! Lol

I was 17 in 1969--oh the girls...

Tom1956 · May 12, 2014

StoneNYC said:
Would rather have been 18 in '69 ... Oh the girls!!! Lol

I was into Estes model rockets. I'm glad I wasn't older then--that crowd was into protesting and carrying on, and getting into political movements, and being just generally weird. Glad I was too young for that. Glad I was also too young to go off to Viet Nam and getting shot at. Guess I was lucky. Back then the Apollo missions and my Instamatic 104 were all I cared about.

Richard S. (rich815) · May 12, 2014

Tom1956 said:
I was into Estes model rockets. I'm glad I wasn't older then--that crowd was into protesting and carrying on, and getting into political movements, and being just generally weird. Glad I was too young for that. Glad I was also too young to go off to Viet Nam and getting shot at. Guess I was lucky. Back then the Apollo missions and my Instamatic 104 were all I cared about.

I was only 6 in 1969 but remember it well. And I was into Estes rockets as well. And Century ones too. Re-ignited the interest with my son a few years ago. Estes is still around. We even found and built my favorite model from when I was a kid: Der Red Max!

StoneNYC · May 12, 2014

Tom1956 said:
I was into Estes model rockets. I'm glad I wasn't older then--that crowd was into protesting and carrying on, and getting into political movements, and being just generally weird. Glad I was too young for that. Glad I was also too young to go off to Viet Nam and getting shot at. Guess I was lucky. Back then the Apollo missions and my Instamatic 104 were all I cared about.

Yea you totally wouldn't have enjoyed those political movements, not you... Hehe

I did have Estes rockets as a kid too. Good times.

Tom1956 · May 12, 2014

My first one was a Big Bertha. The parachute never came out. The tube was too big and long for the charge to blow off the nose cone and spit the 'chute out. It always came back down and stuck front first into the ground. Still remember the recommended engines for that model--B4-2, B6-4, and C6-5.
Still have my Honest John, Aerobee 300, Alpha, and Arcas rockets to this day.

Roger Cole · May 12, 2014

Rick A said:
I was 17 in 1969--oh the girls...

I was six. I still threw rocks at them.

ROL · May 12, 2014

Tom1956 said:
My first one was a Big Bertha.

Is the subject still girls?

BTW, in '69, it was the miniskirts.*

*and here I promised myself I'd having nothing to do with this thread.

Rick A · May 12, 2014

It was the great looking long legged girls in mini skirts.

Tom1956 · May 12, 2014

Rick A said:
It was the great looking long legged girls in mini skirts.

You don't see that any more. It's a crying shame.

MattKing · May 12, 2014

I was 13 in 1969, and all the girls were taller than me.

By three years later, they must have shrunk

tkamiya · May 12, 2014

Roger Cole said:
I was six. I still threw rocks at them.

I was four. I don't remember what girls looked like back then.

StoneNYC · May 12, 2014

MattKing said:
I was 13 in 1969, and all the girls were taller than me.

By three years later, they must have shrunk

Combined with the apparently short skirts... You were a lucky kid

BrianShaw · May 13, 2014

Tom1956 said:
You don't see that any more. It's a crying shame.

Come to LA if that is your interest. Plenty of that here.

Rick A · May 13, 2014

BrianShaw said:
Come to LA if that is your interest. Plenty of that here.

Yeah, but most of them are guys in drag.

ROL · May 13, 2014

Rick A said:
It was the great looking long legged girls in mini skirts.

You obviously have very discriminatory tastes. I remember snapping to attention and saluting at the slightest opportunity in those days, at that age. (...or was that a recent episode of Mad Men? :confused

ROL · May 13, 2014

Tom1956 said:
You don't see that any more. It's a crying shame.

BrianShaw said:

Come to LA if that is your interest. Plenty of that here.

Rick A said:

Yeah, but most of them are guys in drag.

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Errh… that would be the Crying Game. Rick, you've got to extend your current social group outside of West Hollywood. OTOH, I now believe I have a better handle on your "discriminatory" tastes.

Rick A · May 13, 2014

Never been to west hollywierd, but my cousin (who is in fact a drag queen) lives there.

Tom1956 · May 13, 2014

BrianShaw said:
Come to LA if that is your interest. Plenty of that here.

Thanks for the invite Brian, but I don't think California is any place for me.

Richard S. (rich815) · May 13, 2014

Tom1956 said:
Thanks for the invite Brian, but I don't think California is any place for me.

The entire state?

StoneNYC · May 13, 2014

Richard Sintchak (rich815) said:
The entire state?

You should probably just agree that you don't want Tom in California hahaha maybe he should move to "Jefferson" though, he might like it there. (This is a "new state" sort of haha, oh you Cali-Organians...).

Tom1956 · May 13, 2014

Richard Sintchak (rich815) said:
The entire state?

I think I should hold my tongue on the subject. I don't want any emails from Sean. I'm sure there's some good people in California, as would be expected of most any place.

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