Killing the Hobby

QT’s playground is filled with shoppers and talkers. Goog searches bring the neophyte to the land of few people, with few ideas and unlimited opinions. Opinions about everything from shoe laces to national debts — all in the name of buying old cameras, lenses to make remakes of the fifties.

the arc of one story: join November. ask questions about camera, film, lens, developer. The basics.

get advice. going to the next step, with negative in hand, how to print this? Darkroom or Scan?

much opinion, until with response 277, his 200th post, he decides to skip large format altogether.

film is passed on to another seeker. hope they don’t visit the large format forum for insight.

The chemistry isn’t as toxic as those you meet.

Wisdom of Crowds

more crowd than wisdom

// blame the enlarger, was correct

\\ the guy with recent experience was correct

bernadette


GAp is age
broshphere broceiling brocoding
brollateral
ego error
conceit / exhibition ist

superiority of a past

a perfect memory

[folve first problems
solve problems you encoutner]

kodak is great at rendering the generic memory color

vision3 and full post shop chain

lickspittle
noblo cause corruption

then talk it to death
name droppers
hearsy from those who never heard yet love to say

show n tell turned to never show
show off to sell

money is not neutral
it is neutering
money always picks
money — more
the impulse is more