Originally posted by all thumbs Here's what I posted on that thread:
I currently possess 40 cameras, plus another 35 that I've sold, plus another 10 that I've lost somehow. This does not include webcams, doorcams, backupcams, etc. I have not and do not and will not name them. I possessed an old Bessamatic for a few weeks, and I referred to it as BESSIE to the buyer, but that was just marketing. I suppose I couol call my two Argus C3's OLD BRICK and OLDER BRICK, but I don't. I suppose I could call my K20D GENTLE BEN because it's such a bear, but I don't. And I could call my failed Sony DSC-W7 YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SH!T but I don't.
No names! Why not?
1) I'd probably forget the names unless they were tattooed on the cams.
2) Nobody around me would know what the f*ck I was talking about.
3) I'm a cold, insensitive brute, unsuited to such intimate relationships.
I don't name my guitars, banjos, lutes, mandolins, synths, etc. I don't name my radios, AV gear, calculators, flashlights, etc. I do name my computers and drives and printers, to facilitate network management. I have named vehicles. My first housecar was SPUD because it looked like a potato hauler. An old Dodge station wagon was TOOTS because it was Tootsie-Roll colored. (I could have called it CACA, eh?) My old SUV's, a Ford Exploder and a Nissan Murano, are BIG BLUE and LI'L BLUE, because... well, because they're both blue, and one is bigger than the other.
I *do* refer to my digicams as CAM0, CAM1, CAM2 etc, at least in my image-moving software. But just wait. Time will pass. Needs will change. When we put Eye-Fi cards in all our digicams, each will be yet another network device. Cameras, like computers, will need unique names, in order to function in network environments. That doesn't necessarily mean that the names will make any sense. Oh no, let's not be sensible!