What's the goofiest thing someone has said about your film M (or about film)?

[acanalda]

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One day I was taking photographs with my M3 in a big park. It was very early in the morning...

 

- Wow! What a wonderful old camera!

- Thanks! Yes it is really a wonderful camera -I said

- My grandpa has a very similar one. It takes stunning images...but..

- but ?

- yes...as you know, the biggest problem with such kind of cameras is the lack of an USB port to connect them to the computer and also that you are not able to take colour photos!!!

 

- :confused: uhmmm....I think this model has an RS232 port - I said

 

- RS232 port ? What is this ? - he asked

 

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[NZDavid]

Friend with M4 at passport control asked to "please switch the camera on." Er...

 

Me at passport control asked to explain controls of M6 including the rewind knob. Luckily I didn't have to open the camera with partially exposed film inside.

 

Me with IIIa about 10 years ago, asked, "Is that digital?"

[SJP]

One day<snip> -

cruelty to the young and innocent should be discouraged, what is RS232 in hexadecimal??

[pop]

I was shooting the lovely castle between some chestnut trees or some such with a folding camera. When I was done, my wife told me that she was practically overrun by some chap who was staring at my camera while walking the other way.

[Messsucherkamera]

Friend with M4 at passport control asked to "please switch the camera on." Er...

 

I have had several requests from the TSA tools at various airports to switch on my Nikon FM2n and Hasselblad 500 series cameras.

 

As a result, I make it a point to arrive at airport security checkpoints with no film loaded in case they want to see inside a camera.

[pico]

One day while shooting in the mountains with my 4x5 Crown Graphic on a tripod, a Woman tourist came up to me and asked: "Is that a Leica?"

 

....and she was German..

 

If you were using a Linhof Super Technika you could have at least said, "No, but it is German and if Leica made large format RF..."

[antistatic]

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"Why do you need another camera?" from my beloved.

 

The most comments I get are for the Rolleiflex. I once had a homeless and slightly paranoid man approach me with the Rollei and accuse me of filming him. I let him have a look through the viewfinder. He looked up, smiled and said "cool" then wandered off.

 

Usually if someone asked about the Leicas, they know exactly what it is.

[gberger]

From a couple of teen-agers at a wedding reception: (and I'm shooting ASA 400)

"Hey. Mister - - -your flash isn't working!"

[iphoenix]

 

Regarding the Holga: “Ah, a Polaroid. Look luv, after he pushes the button the image will come out the back, almost like with a real camera”. (I guess he was talking about rear LCD.)

:D:D

[iphoenix]

 

- RS232 port ? What is this ? - he asked

 

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Isn't RS232 a Radio Shack/Tandy Toy model no.?

[jdsheepdog]

On pulling my head out from under a towel draped over a Press Graphic on a tripod, M3 in the shade nearby, a passerby said:

"Wow, what's that thing?"

I said, and I admit it was a reply I had been waiting for an opportunity to use,

"I don't know. It was not here last night. It may be a spaceship. I'm seeing if I can make it work"

"Oh wow," he said again. "That is so cool, and they keep pretending that those things don't exist!"

 

And off he went, still shaking his head in amazement.

[Torquinian]

Seeing a person making photographs with a film Leica M always seems to elicit comments from other people when they realize that the photographer is actually using a film camera.

 

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I was walking round the Devon County Show last year with my R8 and bumped into an aquaintance who is a very keen photographer , with the latest Jappo Digital SLR. I said hello Tony I've got a proper camera with film in it. He replied "what's film"

[cbretteville]

Monday, while doing an in-house shoot at work for H/R a collauge looked at my M8 with 24/2.8 and asked, "where's the zoom on that one..?"

C

[smkoush]

Last month I was walking around town taking photographs with my 12-year old niece. I run out of film, so I stopped walking and told her "Hold on, I have to change film". Her response: What is film??!!

[efix]

Not using an M but film. My three-year old son has already realised that there are two kinds of cameras: those that immediately show you the picture, and those that run on funny little canisters that you have to drop off at the drugstore and wait for the pictures to return in order to view them. My wife still wants to look at the screen of my Pentax ME ...

[efix]

Monday, while doing an in-house shoot at work for H/R a collauge looked at my M8 with 24/2.8 and asked, "where's the zoom on that one..?"

C

 

Yup, got that one, too

[dave_d]

One day I was out photographing rock formations at a state park with my Sinar 4x5. While focusing under the dark cloth three children out exploring walked into view from behind a large rock. They stopped, looked, and I heard one of them say "Look! It's a photologist". Now when people ask me what I do for a living I tell them I am a photologist.

[chrism]

Not using an M but film. My three-year old son has already realised that there are two kinds of cameras: those that immediately show you the picture, and those that run on funny little canisters that you have to drop off at the drugstore and wait for the pictures to return in order to view them. My wife still wants to look at the screen of my Pentax ME ...

 

And the ME is so tiny, especially with the f2.8 pancake lens that came with my first ME Super some 30 years ago:

 

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[jdsheepdog]

The thing that fascinates me about this is not really the silly things that people say, especially when they do not realise they are being silly, but in reality how short a time span it has been since digital cameras appeared.

 

Remember when 3 mpixels was a big camera? It was not really that long ago, 10 years maybe, and I may be corrected on that. My first digital was a little canon something or other that I bought in about 2005, and it was a big 5 mpixel, and produced surprisingly good snapshots. I have lost, ruined, or thrown away maybe five since.

 

For film to disappear from the cultural consciousness in so short a time shows to me what a propagandised and malleable animal we have become. Change the tune, and we all dance to the new tune without thinking why, or at all.

 

Meanwhile, my M3 and MP hang round my neck, forcing me to think apart from the crowd, and even if that is all they ever do, they are worth every penny I have spent over the years.

[Shadow Blaster]

The thing that fascinates me about this is not really the silly things that people say, especially when they do not realise they are being silly, but in reality how short a time span it has been since digital cameras appeared.

 

Remember when 3 mpixels was a big camera? It was not really that long ago, 10 years maybe, and I may be corrected on that. My first digital was a little canon something or other that I bought in about 2005, and it was a big 5 mpixel, and produced surprisingly good snapshots. I have lost, ruined, or thrown away maybe five since.

 

For film to disappear from the cultural consciousness in so short a time shows to me what a propagandised and malleable animal we have become. Change the tune, and we all dance to the new tune without thinking why, or at all.

 

Meanwhile, my M3 and MP hang round my neck, forcing me to think apart from the crowd, and even if that is all they ever do, they are worth every penny I have spent over the years.

 

Same thing with music and the change from vinyl records to various digital formats. I find it depressing as the old technology is arguably better from a musical standpoint.