Originally posted by monochrome Huh. There is a very small number of members here I've ever read express this attitude. I quietly share your thoughts.
Appreciating the beauty of the camera for itself, or the lens (usually Takumar or M) for engineering and feel.
Enjoying the company of the camera - most of mine are "stored" on a shelf in my study, where I can look at them. Some of these Pentaxes are works of industrial art, aren't they?
I'll enjoy the new cameras and, as I said, be their steward for 10 or 20 years.
Hee. Interesting word, though. I suppose i feel similarly, only, machines, especially old machines, are at least as alive as most people see in animals.
There's an archivist's relationship about keeping things on shelves, and then there's the 'handing this off and/or using it' one. I used to always be fixing old cameras and not waiting too long before someone needed one. Now the stable piles up.
(taking out Yashicamat, to speak of old machines. )
(following a mental tangent, and my lens-hood fixation, but sweet Mother of Punk, look at this, TLR fans:
http://www.amazon.com/Rollei-Bay-2-Rolleiflex-Camera-Tessar/dp/B003G8MRDQ/ref=pd_cp_p_2)
(Still looking for a functional Bay1 hood for 'Calypso,' my newish friend here that I've just been thinking to take out on the town.
It's one thing about old cameras and such, though: some kind of want collector's pieces, ....if I'm to have an LX (Or maybe a black KX, speaking of beauty,) I kind of like the idea of seeing a bit of brass. May not be like *your* worn-in pair of jeans, but there's still depth there.
I still think it's possible that part of why I took so much to K20D+grip is that that is nearly the *exact same size* as Canon F-1N+ Winder FN.
But hey.