Top 10 Reasons ....

[ilya]

Top 10 signs that you may be addicted ~

1. You carry a picture of the UPS man in your wallet.

2. You've converted to Judaism so you can take time off when B&H does.

3. Your equipment has a first name, its ...., your equipment has a second name, its .....

4. You get pissed when your family members don't appear sharp enough (in real life), or stand with the sun directly at their backs.

5. You go to a bar and stress out how bad the lighting is, and you don't even have a camera with you.

6. You watch ESPN for the white lenses. You watch CSPAN for black lenses with red stripes. This consumes more then 8 hours per week.

7. You start to believe that your roof is showing signs of fringing.

8. You find yourself strangely attracted to donkeys, ducks, and deer.

9. You start thinking in F-stops and you won't go outside when the sun is directly overhead.

10. You went into shakes over New Years when Pekka shut off the site for a few hours.

8) :shock: 8)

[timmyquest]

Top 10 signs that you may be addicted ~

1. You carry a picture of the UPS man in your wallet.

2. You've converted to Judaism so you can take time off when B&H does.

3. Your equipment has a first name, its ...., your equipment has a second name, its .....

4. You get pissed when your family members don't appear sharp enough (in real life), or stand with the sun directly at their backs.

5. You go to a bar and stress out how bad the lighting is, and you don't even have a camera with you.

6. You watch ESPN for the white lenses. You watch CSPAN for black lenses with red stripes. This consumes more then 8 hours per week.

7. You start to believe that your roof is showing signs of fringing.

8. You find yourself strangely attracted to donkeys, ducks, and deer.

9. You start thinking in F-stops and you won't go outside when the sun is directly overhead.

10. You went into shakes over New Years when Pekka shut off the site for a few hours.

8) :shock: 8)

1. We are on a first name basis
2. Not quiet yet
3. Long ago
4. I do ponder the difference between my eye and my lens
5. I take note of the lighting around me all the time
6. I do indeed, i also buy SI for the photos...
7. Nahh
8. Yeahhhh
9. Kinda
10. Was too busy.

[cloudless]

Here is what happens to me:
- I tried to figure out the angle-of-view and focal length of my own eyes (and it seems wider than my kit lens)
- My camera lenses are always cleaner than my eyeglasses.

[LazyPhotographer]

Top 10 signs that you may be addicted ~

9. You start thinking in F-stops and you won't go outside when the sun is directly overhead.

Omigawd, yes! You no longer say ... "it's a nice day" - instead "it's a sunny f16 day".

Then when people around you give you strange looks at the comment, you're shocked that they don't know what the hell you're talking about. - especially when it's SO obvious. ;-)

[Matixvolta]

11. You go to optomatrist and day that you need to 'reconfigure' your lens.

[Belmondo]

You know you’re addicted when:
1. You go to the mall with your wife and hang out at the Ritz Camera store even though they never have anything you want or need, and even if they did, you wouldn’t buy it there anyway.
2. A copy of Popular Photography now resides in the place where Playboy used to be----
3. --- and when you do pick up Playboy, you actually give more thought to how the photographer illuminated the shot than the subject herself.
4. You keep buying larger and larger camera bags. Soon you are buying large backpacks. Ultimately you purchase backpacks with wheels.
5. You decide you must try your hand at taking macro shots of insects even though you hate the darned things. First, of course, you must buy a macro lens. Then it dawns on you that where you live, all the insects are the size of ponies, so you end up shooting them with a portrait lens instead.
6. You buy photo magazines and devote six hours of reading ads for every hour spent reading articles. You occasionally buy extra copies of your favorites so you can have one in each bathroom.
7. You know exactly where the photography books, Photoshop tutorials, and photo magazines are at your local Barnes & Noble, but have never seen any other section of the store.
8. When preparing for a trip, you select your clothes only after you’ve seen how much space will be available after the photo equipment has been packed. If the nature of the trip is such that you will not be able to take all your camera equipment, you post threads on bulletin boards asking for advice on what equipment you should take.
9. You check the current price of CF cards like some people watch the stock market.
10. You give your brand-new 18” flat panel monitor to your brother-in-law because you discover the color is better on your old CRT. Then you buy another flat panel because you find there actually is a way to calibrate them.
11. You have a Canon i950 printer that you love, but replace it anyway with an i960 because---- . Well, because you really don’t know why. It’s just newer and therefore must be better.
12. Your test for whether a shot is good or not is how well you can read the lettering on the cab door of the locomotive that reads, “EXTINGUISHER INSIDE.” You have thousands of such shots, each indistinguishable from the other. People think you are obsessed.
13. You wake up one day and realize you have 4 different ways of shooting 400mm. It also dawns on you that you have 5 different ways of shooting 50mm. (or is it the other way around?) You cover your embarrassment by pretending that this is all part of a grand plan, and you’re doing this for science; you do a really lame comparison of the lenses and post it in the forum.
14. You buy a 550EX flash which you have no clue how to use. You then turn around and buy a 420EX because you’re fascinated with the idea of the Master/Slave business. You amuse yourself by spending hours triggering the 420EX with the 550EX. You’re not taking pictures; you’re playing with the flash.
15. You buy a professional flash bracket because it makes you look like a wedding photographer. Then you realize that in order to really look like a pro, your flash bracket can’t be blue anodized aluminum, so you buy another one….this time, black. Now you have two flash brackets, one of which you will never use because it’s the wrong color. You can’t even give it away.

I’m ashamed to admit that most (maybe all) of these things are based on personal experience. I’m truly a sick puppy, just now starting to come to grips with my illness.
:oops: :oops:

[karusel]

12. you find yourself just holding the camera half pressing the shutter at random directions, then you shut the camera off. And look at it for a while
13. after realizing your glasses are the weakest link in your equipment, as they yield more purple fringing than consumer grade lens, you ask your optician for glasses with SLD element

:D

[PacAce]

xx. You know you're addicted to photography, and especially to Canon bodies and lenses, when you're in the John and reading "PopTography" or Outdoor Photographer, you always end up in the last pages where the B&H ads are and look to see if there are any "L" lenses you might have missed even though you've seen the list a million times already and it's always the same list! Or you're really wishing that they've cut the price of the 500/4L in half with rebate. :?

[IndyJeff]

1. You go to bed at 3am on a Friday night after you decide that nobody else is cruising this message board.
2. You get up at 8am check the message board to see if anyone posted anything new.
3. You buy an L lens and check on it before you go to bed at night.
4. You see beautiful girls walking everywhere and think, "Damn I would like to get some shots of her."
5. You play Bingo, on average, three times a week hoping to win a $1000 bonanza so you can buy more photo stuff.
6. No matter how many cf cards you have, you just need one more because it is on sale.
7. You buy filters, just in case you may need them someday.
8. You buy flowering plants for your home landscaping, not for their astetic value but because you think they will make great pictures.
9. You ask people who manage tall apartment buildings if you can have access to the roof so you can get a cool shot of the downtown at night.
10. You find yourself going to cemetaries often. Not to visit graves of dead loved ones but to look for cool shots.

[angrybunny]

14. You buy a 550EX flash which you have no clue how to use. You then turn around and buy a 420EX because you’re fascinated with the idea of the Master/Slave business. You amuse yourself by spending hours triggering the 420EX with the 550EX. You’re not taking pictures; you’re playing with the flash.


OMG Belmondo, I laughed myself off my chair when I read this.

[PhotosGuy]

ROTFL!!!

[roanjohn]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

1. You take pictures of random paraphernalia around your room/house in between surfing the internet/watching tv. This is even more evident after a purchase of a new lens.

2. You know every single "L" lens in the line-up and you can call them in order from wide-tele, prime-zoom including the 1.4 and 2 X TC.

3. You strategize your budget on your next lens combo, even if you don't intend to purchase any (OH DON'T KID YOURSELF!!!).

4. Your heart starts pumping when you think of Canon's upcoming 10D/REbel upgrade. And when it comes, you piss your pants after reading the specs.

5. You look at your camera at night, caress it, and whisper "My Precioussssss..................".

6. You have nightmares of dropping your camera and you wake up in cold sweats. OTOH, you have good dreams of having the IDMKII in your hands shooting your sisters wedding :-) Then you wake up in cold sweats thinking that you want one.

7. Every upcoming event, you think of the bag/camera/lens/flash that best suits it.

8. You're broke and you're on a macaroni and cheese diet.

9. You know the meaning of "Bokeh" and its different pronounciation. You even know its origin.

10. You're a "VERY ACTIVE MEMBER", or better yet "TOP CONTRIBUTOR" in this forum.

RO1

[Belmondo]

:lol: :lol: :lol:
4. Your heart starts pumping when you think of Canon's upcoming 10D/REbel upgrade. And when it comes, you P*** your pants after reading the specs.
RO1

Ummmm......
some of us don't need new camera models to make that happen. It's a function of age. (maybe I should use a word other than 'function'.) :cry: :cry: :wink:

[Scottes]

1. You go to bed at 3am on a Friday night after you decide that nobody else is cruising this message board.

Well that one pushed me over the edge.

[Lamplight]

You go to sporting events, not because you're interested in sports (because you're not), but to look for interesting shots. :oops:

[iwatkins]

8. You buy flowering plants for your home landscaping, not for their astetic value but because you think they will make great pictures.


You got me.

My better half was quite suprised at me today when I went with her to the nursery to pick out new plants for the garden.

I went mad, found plants that bees like, I found plants that butterflies like, I found plants that have really interesting flowers/stems/growths etc. Bonkers, spent way too much.

Got home with the car full of plants, I even unloaded them for her. Then she sugested that I might help her plant them in all the borders.

Silly girl. I had to point out to her that "I do the lawn and the BBQ" and went to clean my lenses (after checking the Forum for new posts). :twisted: :twisted:

Cheers

Ian

[Malaxos1]

The flowers you bought for your wife are really for you to try out the new macro lens. Don't worry, I wount tell anyone...Dean :wink:

[CyberDyneSystems]

33: You spend so much time on this forum that you not only rack up the highest post count in it's history,. fooling some of the newer photogs into thinking that you may actually know a thing or two... but the owner who knows better decides since he can't get rid of you he might as well hand you the keys.... :roll:

[Malaxos1]

33: You spend so much time on this forum that you not only rack up the highest post count in it's history,. fooling some of the newer photogs into thinking that you may actually know a thing or two... but the owner who knows better decides since he can't get rid of you he might as well hand you the keys.... :roll:

LOL...That is too damn funny. I bet everyone is wondering if you are talking about them (do you mean me?)...Dean

[Longwatcher]

A. You have visited the fabric store so many times when another customer asks what you are making, the lady at the counter answers for you saying you use the cloth for photo backdrops and props for the models.

B. You don't wear any jewelry, but you own more then your girl friend just so you have accessories for your models.

C. You send a welcome message to every female model over 18 on OMP just in the hopes that they will pose for you. Even the not so pretty ones in a slow month.

D. You find that you no longer pay attention to Canon's war
nings about not connecting certain things together (say the 1.4x, 2x and 25mm extension tubes to your 100-400) at the same time.

Not that I would ever do that :roll:
http://www.longwatcher.com/images/Gina/Canon_super%20lens.jpg

E. You take off from work early to catch the sunset if the clouds are just right.

F. You know that size does matter (pixel size that is)

I had to laugh at the one about flowers above since I did the same thing about two weeks ago, just waiting for them to bloom now...

[ilya]

Lol

We may need a separate forum as a support group.

[randyk]

11 - You show up at an event without a camera and people can't believe it.

12 You sell all your L zooms because only primes will do.

[Belmondo]

12 You sell all your L zooms because only primes will do.


Then, after you own all the L primes, you once again buy the zooms because they represent the only L lenses you don't currently own. :cry: :wink: :oops: :shock:

And the beat goes on.

[Chris1le]

Damn Tom that is pretty scary. I had to turn around to make sure you weren't behind me. Watching my every move. :lol:

[Scottes]

x) You used to kill bugs until you got a macro lens. Now you take a few pictures and set them free in the back yard.

x) You see your significant other grab a can of Raid and you run to get the macro lens yelling "No Wait" over and over again.

x) You spend $200 on bird feeders and you get upset because you can't get them close enough to a window.

x) You spend days yelling at squirrels eating from your bird feeders and then suddenly realize that you have more subjects to shoot.

x) You spend $50 on squirrel feeders, too.

x) You realize that a good way to spend a cloudy Saturday is to run around the woods searching for "photogenic" sticks that you lash to your bird feeder pole hoping for a "more natural" shot of a finch. (You think I'm kidding on this one? I got into a huge fight with the wife because she wouldn't help me search. She's an artist and she should know what's photogenic about a stick and she doesn't care about my photography anyway so what does it matter let's see what happens next time *she* asks me if...)

x) On your search you find a small log, and take it home and drill lots of holes on one side then fill those holes with a mixture of suet, peanut butter, and oatmeal and sit back waiting to get a "more natural" shot of a Downy Woodpecker.

x) You realize that Prozac makes you shake so you get an IS lens.

x) You don't mind waiting in the doctor's office if you have a macro lens, and you *just* *can't* *wait* to go to the dentist.

x) It takes several days but you finally realize that birds and squirrels don't like Kraft Dinner either.

x) You spend hours trying to reduce the flash glare from blowing out the highlights on your macro shots of Kraft Dinner.

x) You realize that bugs *love* Kraft Dinner and have a field day.

x) You wife yells at you because your friends haven't been over in months and you think it's only been a couple of days.

x) Your friends start counting how many times you say "Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!" in an hour.

[daaaveman]

x) You used to kill bugs until you got a macro lens. Now you take a few pictures and set them free in the back yard.

x) You see your significant other grab a can of Raid and you run to get the macro lens yelling "No Wait" over and over again.

x) You spend $200 on bird feeders and you get upset because you can't get them close enough to a window.

x) You spend days yelling at squirrels eating from your bird feeders and then suddenly realize that you have more subjects to shoot.

x) You spend $50 on squirrel feeders, too.

x) You realize that a good way to spend a cloudy Saturday is to run around the woods searching for "photogenic" sticks that you lash to your bird feeder pole hoping for a "more natural" shot of a finch. (You think I'm kidding on this one? I got into a huge fight with the wife because she wouldn't help me search. She's an artist and she should know what's photogenic about a stick and she doesn't care about my photography anyway so what does it matter let's see what happens next time *she* asks me if...)

x) On your search you find a small log, and take it home and drill lots of holes on one side then fill those holes with a mixture of suet, peanut butter, and oatmeal and sit back waiting to get a "more natural" shot of a Downy Woodpecker.

x) You realize that Prozac makes you shake so you get an IS lens.

x) You don't mind waiting in the doctor's office if you have a macro lens, and you *just* *can't* *wait* to go to the dentist.

x) It takes several days but you finally realize that birds and squirrels don't like Kraft Dinner either.

x) You spend hours trying to reduce the flash glare from blowing out the highlights on your macro shots of Kraft Dinner.

x) You realize that bugs *love* Kraft Dinner and have a field day.

x) You wife yells at you because your friends haven't been over in months and you think it's only been a couple of days.

Great post Scottes.....Thought I was going to wake the wife up with my laughter........Thank god for the internet. Now we each know that we're not the only obsessed freak in the world!!

[Scottes]

Great post Scottes.....Thought I was going to wake the wife up with my laughter........Thank god for the internet. Now we each know that we're not the only obsessed freak in the world!!

Obsessed? I just got the camera a few months ago. I haven't even *begun* to obsess yet.

[msvadi]

Lately I find my self wondering how many and which L lenses I can buy if I sell my CDs collection... Do you think it's a bad sign? ;)