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I have a new Canon 30D and a year+ old Canon Powershot SD500. and an old old Canon AE-1 Program...
I have a new Canon 30D and a year+ old Canon Powershot SD500. and an old old Canon AE-1 Program...
Right now my "hobby" is clearing my subdivision out to the main road. Sigh.
Dr. B.,
Calls to mind a quote from some war movie or another...the character was a British sargent major IIRC...."There is no problem that the right amount of explosives can't solve.".
Len
Bunch o' folks with photography for a hobby. What's your favored medium/type?
Right now it's digital 2.1mp though I need more camera than I have sometimes. I'm learning technique for good pictures and the instant review and no cost developing capability goes a long way. I run the saturation down to B&W for some very nice effects occasionally.
I did some astrophotography in college. Real film. I want to get back into that eventually using film. I need my own developing room though. "Here, develop all frames no matter what" just doesn't get done at the stores or camera shops.
Mmm, OM cameras. I have an OM-1, with about a similar compliment of lenses. I have to Minolta bodies, a tough as nails been dropped onto hard floors many times SRT-201, and a MD-11 with autowinder. Again, similar set of lenses for these.Olympus OM2 with:
- Vivatar Series 1 28-70mm f2.8 zoom
- Vivatar Series 1 70-210mm f5.6 zoom
- Olympus 50mm f2.2 lens
- Motorwinder 2
- Celestron 1000mm F11 mirror lens
- a bunch of other filters and stuff for it.
Bunch o' folks with photography for a hobby. What's your favored medium/type?
For me, it's B&W film.
Bunch o' folks with photography for a hobby. What's your favored medium/type?
For me, it's B&W film.
I definitely would have learned to sail if I had continued living in the SF Bay area. However, Colorado has an uninspiring amount of water.I'd love to sail--only been once.
I'm not really into cats, tho.
I don't really consider myself a photographer, but I have an old Minolta 35mm SLR that I use with a tangent arm platform that I built myself for taking photos of celestial events such as comets. Below is a photo of Comet Hyakutaki that I took in March 1996. 4 minute exposure on Kodak 800 asa film.
Bunch o' folks with photography for a hobby. What's your favored medium/type?
For me, it's B&W film.
I have an old Minolta SRT-101, with a couple of lenses. Hard to beat the old mechanical system.
Also sport a Canon EOS-3 (film) and a Digital Rebel (digital SLR) that share the same lenses. I may replace the digital with the XT version after I get a new job. I have an array of lenses and accessories for the Canons.
I like the Ilford B&W films, though I sometimes use a slower Kodak B&W, and a variety of color films. I prefer slides to negative film.
I invested in a Minolta high-quality film scanner a couple of years ago. Impressive results, though more noise than the direct digital camera. Still, a great way to save old photos and manipulate them in Photoshop.
We're blessed with 2 pretty high quality film labs down here, one is three blocks away. They've always done a great job, at a fair price. Less and less business from the film... a fair amount of their work is not top quality, press-ready work from digital media.
Somewhere, in one of my boxes, is darkroom gear. I may never use it again....
I have one of them there Vivitar 70-210's for my OM and I think it's a POS! Never liked it, don't know why I bought it.
Had no idea there were so many photographers on the board!
Sure are a lot of shutter bugs!
I guess my main hobby is building scale model aircraft. I build mostly 1/48 scale but sometimes venture into larger scale a/c (1/32 scale). I don't build very many "out of the box" but scratch build cockpit detail, instument panel, etc.
Currently we are sailing a 2006 Hunter 36 with all the toys.
hmmm... I have an old pedal tractor ... it's a John Deere from around '59 or '60. Used to have a matching wagon but that's long gone ... I'll have to dig up or take some new pics -Pedal Tractor restoration
I also played piano when I was growing up and somehow I still have it, but the only one who has played it in a long time is Eamon. Thanks E!
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I was a skier back in the dark ages. Wonder if it's something you never forget how to do, like riding a bicycle, or flying an airplane. On second thought, I never did it very well the first time. I remember coming down the hill in that toboggan...Mari, Do you ski??
Hi all-
Back from Canada. Anyway,
Skiing
Mountaineering
Used to do a lot of kayaking but have let that go somewhat
Poker (is that a hobby? Donno, but play about once a week and in Vegas occasionally)
Mountain biking when I get the chance - did a lot more in AZ and Utah when I lived there than I do up here
Classic Car collecting and restoration
Playing, writing & listening to music
Home restoration
Motocycles
Power & Sail boating
Travel
Dining
RC cars, boats & airplanes
I want to start brewing beer or making mead
I need to start skiing again...... Mari, Do you ski??
"Mountaineering isn't a hobby, it isn't fun. It's a study in masochism and frostbite Russian Roulette" - somewhere on rec.climbing, or NEIce, I forget which...
Have you topped out Denali? We're looking to do Kathadin and Washington this winter, first winter alpine trip ever...
Cheers,
-Andrew
It's been so long since I've shot seriously that I couldn't tell ya based on what is on the market these days. Was head photographer for our HS yearbook jr and sr years, and we shot lots and lots of Tri-X for indoors no flash candid shots. Used Pan-X when I could use a flash for pre-arranged shots (team photos, etc.). And for sports, usually pushed the Tri-X to 1600.
We had a nice B/W darkroom at school, and developed both film and prints. No nicer way to spend the last two periods of the day than sitting in the dark, listening to the Police, and sniffing stop bath. Oh those were the days. Something very theraputic about spending time in the dark room.