I finally understand the term "Hipster"

Why do you complain about the prices of the film. Do you know how much effort is necessary to age film in a controlled way and sell it afterwards :)
 
I do not care if someone buys expensive redscale film which can be spooled in your own bathroom.

I wonder that LC-A is listed for eur250 next to real camera (well, it's P&S style, but it's a camera), Natura Classica for eur300.

I see locals are hunting forgotten LC-A's - and some are "smart" enough to list them on local site for inflated prices, little too optimistic when 97% of buyers go directly "entry level DSLR fitted with kit zoom lens" route, and 3% buy good and very good film gear for less than LC-A's are listed.
 
A couple of months ago I was at a gifted kids invention open house. One of the inventions, quite serious, was a DIY jeans cutter. Complete with brochures, video, with marketing reasons why you want to cut up your own jeans, rather than pay for pre-cut ones, and info. on how to obtain a proper band saw. very impressed.
 
Benjamin Oliver said:
I think that if you saw me on the street you may consider me a hipster. I am strong enough to lug my F3 around, though, and I chose, instead of a Holga, I chose a Mamiya RB67 as my first medium format camera. The closest I got to lomography is my Olympus XA, and I kept all the speeds on my Schwinn Voyageur 11.8. I don't mind hipsters though. They are my friends. They consider their style and the results they want (a lot get RESULTS too), and they buy those things with the money they/their parents have. They are doing their part to keep companies selling film.

I am be glad to be called a hipster. It's a lot better than many stereotypes, and we all know about stereotypes. Right, leicaphiles?
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My brother and his GF are borderline hipsters, but better than they were. Our social circle has shamed them into wearing quasi-coordinated outfits, and putting on a scarf and toque only half the time :rolleyes:
My bro still has the beard though :p
 
Well, I have a different take on this "hipster" retro film camera fad. Overpriced they may be, they are certainly helping to keep film sales alive, for us more "serious" film camera aficionados. And I also think that they are "gateway" cameras into less fashionable, but more serious, film photography. I see no issue with this "fad".

Of course, it's also possible that there are people actually producing some good work with these overpriced toys. Actually, I know for certain there are. As always, it's not the implement, but the wielder.

~Joe
 
Amazing how much discouragement and disparagement there is for young people getting out there and taking photos with film cameras.
 
Who knew....guess I'll sell my opium pipe and get me one of them "Hip" cameras.

Best regards,

Bob
 
Back in the late 1970's and early 1980's you could pick up Lubitels in the UK for less than £20, today they go for much more on ebay
 
The term "hipster" was coined by Harry "The Hipster" Gibson, an entertainer who performed from the 1920s to the 1980s, who almost ended his career in music by recording his song, "Who Put The Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine"!
 
Melvin said:
http://whitestripes.com/lomography/lomography.html
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If you had told me back in the 80's, when I first handled a Diana, that the one of the last in-production and best-selling film cameras would be a Diana or a Holga, I would have laughed and called you nuts. So this is how it ends.
:cool: <--- doofus hipsters unite!!

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I have no issue with people using these cameras, I've even used them myself. However, I do have an issue with some people who use these cameras and look down at me for using a standard camera. Some users tend to think that you cannot use "toy" cameras and more standard cameras at the same time.
 
thegman said:
Amazing how much discouragement and disparagement there is for young people getting out there and taking photos with film cameras.
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Agreed. If people have money and want to spend it on film photography then I'm certainly not going to belittle them because they choose to spend it differently than I would prefer. Hipsters with Holgas and dentists with Leicas and fashionistas with Polaroids are all equally awesome in my book.

Any trend that includes film is a good trend. Price awareness and bargain hunting are not everyone's priority. And that's a good thing, because otherwise there'd be a lot fewer bargains for the rest of us to enjoy.
 
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