Home

Please support mflenses.com if you need any graphic related work order it from us, click on above banner to order!
SearchSearch MemberlistMemberlist RegisterRegister ProfileProfile Log in to check your private messagesLog in to check your private messages Log inLog in

What have you guys done to me ??
Post new topic   Reply to topic
Home   Manual Focus Lenses
View previous topic :: View next topic  


PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 8:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
cooltouch wrote:
scsambrook wrote:
I think the best way to de-fuze a potential wife-hostility situation is the tactic a friend of mine used. He told his wife about EVERY single thing he bought, showed each one to her and said

"Well, I did well there- paid £ 10 [or sometimes 15, or 20] for it when it sells for £ 30 usually. If ever I sell it, I'll make a profit, eh?"


Yeah, I've used this tactic too, with mixed results. See, I used to buy and sell photo equipment for a living, and my wife was an active participant -- in sales, at least. So, when I give her the line about, "Well, I paid $20 for it, but it's worth $50, easy," she just says, "So, when are you gonna sell it?" Oops. Shocked


I'll second that, a few months ago I picked up a well respected and expensive lens from the local car boot for peanuts, in my eagerness the show the wife what a great find I'd just bought I blurted out how much it was worth, Christmas arrives daughter wants new laptop but we don't have enough funds sloshing around so the wife mentions the lens and if we sold it my beloved daughter gets her laptop, wife's happy, daughter will be happy, I'm not so sure because what I sold it for I couldn't actually buy it, ah well season of goodwill.


PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 9:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
As a collector of various things, I spend time talking to other people who do the same. There's an old prayer that goes something like this:

"Dear Lord, when I die, please don't let my wife sell my collection for what I told her I paid for it"


PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 9:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
NozPhoto wrote:
As a collector of various things, I spend time talking to other people who do the same. There's an old prayer that goes something like this:

"Dear Lord, when I die, please don't let my wife sell my collection for what I told her I paid for it"


Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy


PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 4:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hey, one of lenses showed up, DON'T LAUGH,,it is a Sears 135 2.8, $30.00 including shipping, so far it is pretty sharp on the Canon !
Luckilly I got to the post office before my wife did, took out of the box, carried it in like I have had it for years,,


PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 4:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
yinyangbt wrote:
mo wrote:
Guys it is much easier when you are the wife who's buying the gear Very Happy Very Happy

Laughing Laughing Laughing


Laughing Laughing

and perhaps even more economical than buying shoes ... Laughing


PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 7:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Attila wrote:
yinyangbt wrote:
mo wrote:
Guys it is much easier when you are the wife who's buying the gear Very Happy Very Happy

Laughing Laughing Laughing


Laughing Laughing

and perhaps even more economical than buying shoes ... Laughing


Some years ago one my friends wife (who was then really addicted hats) came to visit every time when she had bought one more that she couldn't resist (=> she leave the new hat to my place for awhile before she took it to her home). Sometimes in my closet was about 6 her new hats waiting the right time to pick them her home one by one. And then when her husband noticed that she was wearing again some new one, she could always honestly say that it wasn't new one and that she had bought it long long time ago. Laughing Laughing Laughing


PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Laughing Laughing Laughing


PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 7:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
My missus knows I am buying the Samyang 14mm after Xmas. Sadly, she also knows what Zeiss and Pentacon mean, despite not having an interest in it. The odd lens does crop up in the ebay history, but I like to make sure it's a cheap version of a decent lens I have my eye on... "Yeah, that only cost me a Tenner... I had to fix it up" Twisted Evil


PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I had a wife once, I married a Brit Shocked

1. It was the most expensive habit I ever broke.
2. It gave me great love of everything Irish
3. It gave me profound fondness of everything French
4. I sure do miss her Pentax LX Laughing


PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
hello , I'm WolverineX and i'm a lens addict...
i've been cold turkey buying lenses for 2 months now...
no, wife is not the reason (ain't got no wife,yet Very Happy )...

saving up money for a Oly PEN m43 camera...
and access to all the lenses that i can't mount on my Oly dSLR Laughing Laughing Laughing


PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 11:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I succumbed recently when I visited a local camera shop. They had several bins of old lenses and teleconverters, plus other goodies, priced very cheap. I couldn't help myself. I ended up buying about a dozen lenses, teleconverters, and extension tube sets, plus a couple of Nikon angle finders, a non-metered prism for a Nikon F, lens caps, etc.. Of course, my old camera dealer instincts kicked in, which is why I bought all that stuff. I paid about $150 for the lot, and of the lot, I ended up keeping a Canon FD 100mm f/4 macro lens, Canon 50mm extension tube, Pentax M 50mm f/1.4 SMC Tak, one of the Nikon angle finders, and that F pentaprism. The rest went on eBay. Just one of the lenses sold for $220. One of the TCs sold for $65 (Vivitar S1 matched TC for the 90mm S1 macro). Most of the rest of the items sold for $20 to $40 each.

So, when I told the wifey about all this, there wasn't a whole lot she could argue about. I got to cherry pick the stuff I wanted, ended up getting it for free and still made a few hundred bucks off the deal. Now, that's what I'm talkin' 'bout!

What's more is they still have a lot of lenses and stuff left in those bins, some of which are fairly interesting. If I have any money left over from Christmas spending, I'm heading back over there to see what else I can scrounge up.


PostPosted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 2:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
OK, my 135mm made it home without wife knowing it. Waiting any day for my Vivitar 300mm lens to show up. May not be as easy to explain. I only paid $15.00 for the lens. Seller said it looks good, clear glass, maybe it slipped thru the ebay crack & it is a good one,,
I have found another 300mm that I am aching for, but I will have to add another '0" to the price of the vivitar !!


PostPosted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 2:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
My god this is like "lens-coholic" anonymous! Shocked


PostPosted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hey Sting, if we weren't all lensaholics, we wouldn't be hanging out here, would we? Cool

You know what they say, the first stage of recovery is admitting you have the condition. So what, I've got the condition, but what if I don't want to recover from it?


PostPosted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I seem to have sent my LBA into remission. How?

I bought loads of lenses and have discovered half of them are crap so I'm selling all the ones I don't actually use because they are either crap or inferior to the best I own.

This in itself hasn't halted my LBA, but combined with the fact the only lenses that now interest me are ones superior to what I already own it has. Simple reason, the ones better than what I already have are too expensive for me to be able to afford!

So I'm happily using the good ones I have as they do everything I need and I know I'm not going to gain much, if anything, in IQ terms by buying some more expensive ones.

That said, I do have my eye on a 35mm Distagon just to satisfy my curiosity about T* glass...


PostPosted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:25 pm    Post subject: GAS in a minor way Reply with quote
I think the addiction often is related to the acquiring of lenses by eBay and such.
When bidding it helps taking a break around the time the bidding-time expires.
Then another GAS-addict has got the item and you are carefree (for the time being).


PostPosted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
erkie wrote:
I had a wife once, I married a Brit Shocked

1. It was the most expensive habit I ever broke.
2. It gave me great love of everything Irish
3. It gave me profound fondness of everything French
4. I sure do miss her Pentax LX Laughing


Smile


PostPosted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Something we had discussed in the pentax forums:

http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-slr-lens-discussion/169034-you-know-you-have-lens-buying-addiction-when.html


PostPosted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well, my friend just bought a 250 € worth humidifier so he could sustain a correct humidity of the air, because he was afraid what could happen to his collection of classic guitars if the air would be to dry. You pick a hobby and it might just happen you get some kind of LBA, maybe GBA (guitar buying addiction).

Now, a 250 € worth air drier is something more sensible to buy. Keeps fungus away from the lens collection.

Anyway just teasing you all LBA addicts, I actually do not have a LBA, I currently own less than 20 lenses.


PostPosted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
RioRico wrote:
You are safe so long as you own no more than ten lenses. That is the threshold. You are doomed once your lens count exceeds that. But voices in your head will whisper, "Just one more Takumar, one more Zeiss, and the Tomioka 55 doesn't render like the Cosina 55..." and there you have it. Welcome to the beyond.


aahhhh, the voices.........................................


PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Just scored a Pentacon 200/4 on ebay... can't exactly hide THAT and pass it off as a small, inconsequential lens...

In the words of Lloydy... "she's gonna bloody kill me!"


PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 12:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
when she does, can I have the lens ? Laughing


PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 12:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lloydy wrote:
when she does, can I have the lens ? Laughing


We have a saying in the Mine Exploring community... "If you die, we split your kit" Very Happy


PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 2:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm not suffering from my addiction.....I'm quite enjoying it. Twisted Evil


PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 3:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
yeah, wife caught me outside with a Komine made Vivitar 200mm f3.5, had to confess. She has not seen the Sears 135mm 2.8 I just got. Hey, the Komine is suppose to be sharp, & it is, but suprisingly the Sears lens is sharp too. Nothing beats spending $20-30 for a lens & it produces sharp images. But I have bought a few crappy ones too. Still waiting on the 300mm to show up, I am off tomorrow maybe it will show up & I can hide the evidence !!
Post new topic   Reply to topic
Home   Manual Focus Lenses
Goto page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4, 5  Next
Page 2 of 5