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you remember when...
- Joe didn't own a Canon LTM RF
- Bill showed his "but I can lift heavy things" T-shirt
- Rich started a new thread called "Camera & Coffee"
- Frank S didn't own a Leica M3
- Russ gulled us (well me anyway) into thinking EK was reintroducting Panatomic-X
- Rich speculated on whether we might be interested in doing a book
- Oscar's signature said "just taffin' around"
- 3/4 of the members had cat avatars
- Jorge lived in Oregon
- Bill posted some photos of signs in Albuquerque, NM
- Most of the debates were "is Canonet, Yashica GSN or Konica S3 the best RF?"
- The Russian revolution started and Zorki advice was the hot thread
... over to you!
Gene
Kim Coxon
02-16-2006, 14:54
Dunno, Haven't been here long enough to know!
- Joe had three Minolta Hi-Matic 7s
- JDos2 had a Nikon RF
- Gene had a Leica CL
- Rich set up an Orkut community
- The 'just waiting for the mail, anyone?' didn't even exist...
- And Camera&Coffee had only 3 pages
- The board had the 10 top posters, and 20 more members
- You can't remember how many BCN RFF meetings you've had
- RFF didnt' have a gallery !
- The hottest item was a Moskva 5
- Leica M's were 'that thing'
- Your most written piece of text by far wasn't your address
- The people at the post office didn't ask 'where's the camera going this time?'
...
oftheherd
02-16-2006, 15:23
-Francisco's favorite RF was a Canonet and he still frequented another BB :p
-Bill had his romp with his dogs "new game, new game"
Todd.Hanz
02-16-2006, 15:24
ahh, nostalgia:
-Oscar took pics of cans
-If you posted a pic the gallery it would still be there two days later
-Canonets, GSN's and Konicas were abundant on ebay for ten bucks or less
-Rich was glorifying the Oly 35SP
todd
back alley
02-16-2006, 15:28
when oscar referred to having to survive on cookie crumbs every time he bought something new...
Todd.Hanz
02-16-2006, 15:41
Who's Joe?
keeper of the flame :)
back alley
Todd
jan normandale
02-16-2006, 15:50
Who's Joe?
________ ;- )
JoeFriday
02-16-2006, 16:29
Who's Joe?
normally that would be my line!
Frank Granovski
02-16-2006, 16:45
"Ya been on RFF a long time if ..." you throw out all your SLRs and spend all your money on rangefinders. Thank you very much. :cool:
Byuphoto
02-16-2006, 17:33
When no one knew who JOE was
amateriat
02-16-2006, 20:47
"Ya been on RFF a long time if ..." you throw out all your SLRs and spend all your money on rangefinders. Thank you very much. :cool:
Frank, I basically did this just before joining RFF, so does that make me "Xtra" hard-core? (Maybe best not to answer that...)
- Barrett
SolaresLarrave
02-16-2006, 21:07
Being an old hand here, I remember that...
One of the longest threads was "what's your favorite film?",
Oscar's avatar was a cat!,
Richard's motto was "The Devil Uses an SLR",
Todd got his first Leica M,
Joe used to shoot with an Oly!,
Ralph (Rover) bought a Hassy,
Jorge was crazy about his new X-Pan,
We had a long discussion about which subforums should be created in RFF,
Jorge changed the forum appearance, we complained, and he switched it back to the original!
Bill posted his "I can lift heavy things" self portrait,
Bill also posted the story of his rubber chicken,
joe declared that capital letters were bourgeois,
Brett received a huge box full of all kinds of cameras...
Boy... we've come a long way.
Stephanie Brim
02-16-2006, 21:11
There is seriously nothing like buying a big box of cameras on Ebay... :p
I haven't been here long but I remember a few of these things. It's also been fun backtracking and seeing what I missed before I joined. Glad I'm here, glad you guys are here, glad we're all here. If I hadn't found this place I probably would have never gotten the rangefinder of my dreams. ;)
you remember when
There was no gallery upload limit, and ...
Graksi had less than a 100 images (everyone excellent, as always)
We first saw Marta
a few of us used to post our top ten gallery pics of the week
There were no advertisers
Joe last updated his blog (prior to the most "recent" one) ;)
.
RFF convention anyone? Central location.....Chicago? What a great town....
Who's in?
Damn, I can remember most of those things. *sigh* :)
Frank Granovski
02-16-2006, 22:57
Frank, I basically did this just before joining RFF, so does that make me "Xtra" hard-core? (Maybe best not to answer that...)
- BarrettI'll answer that. Naaa, you're not hard core, just one of the wise members here who have seen the light. :cool:
I'm now down to 1 SLR (from 4), and non were or are digital. Digital is for weenies, unless it's an RD1. :p
ClaremontPhoto
02-16-2006, 23:52
Digital is for making an image of the SLR that you are planning to sell on eBay.
This one's good...
Joe had two Mamiya 6s ! :eek:
If you remember when the "In Praise of the Canonet" thread at Pop Photo had more posts and views than our "Cameras & Coffee" thread.
If you remember when the "In Praise of the Canonet" thread at Pop Photo had more posts and views than our "Cameras & Coffee" thread.
And you remember who started it ;)
Brian Sweeney
02-17-2006, 01:48
Remy covered his M2 in PINK!
BJ Bignell
02-17-2006, 02:01
Ya been on RFF a long time if...
- You remember when the "Camera Around the World" was shipped to it's first remote location. I'm gonna be really old (like thirty or something) before that thing finally gets to me! :eek:
- You get inspired to create a thread entitled "Ya been on RFF a long time if ..." :D
BJ
Remy covered his M2 in PINK!
Then gold....
darkkavenger
02-17-2006, 02:19
Digital is for making an image of the SLR that you are planning to sell on eBay.
Or rangefinder/TLR ;)
You know you've been at RFF a long time when....
you can remember Remy (RML) first displying his *PINK* M2, and then changing it to *GOLD*.
edit: Looks like I'm slow this morning.
(No, Joe. I'm not slow all the time! :))
. . . you remember when Natalie and Roman were prolific posters.
JoeFriday
02-17-2006, 05:43
Being an old hand here, I remember that...
Brett received a huge box full of all kinds of cameras...
and I still haven't used all of them (but I'm trying)
they've been scattered a bit since then, however.. one is in France, another is in Holland.. a half dozen are in the UK, and I believe one or two are in Canada.. I consider myself an RF Distribution Center
________ ;- )
Your right jan, I should have used the smily face. ;)
If you remember when Back alley didn't have 100 post.
Joe passed 100 in the first week.
SolaresLarrave
02-17-2006, 07:11
Besides the book(s), I also remember:
When Natalia announced a website with the correct pronounciation of the names of our favorite FSU cameras in Russian.
That she was one of the first girls to join RFF!
When joe (no capitals, please) was annointed as moderator.
When Ralph started selling his Minolta gear!
The short and relatively tempestuous membership of Roger Hicks! :)
How RFF was featured in Shutterbug.
When Jorge helped nab a guy who broke into a camera store in Oregon.
Ah... the milestones! :)
SolaresLarrave
02-17-2006, 07:14
And, of course, how could anyone forget joe's foray into medium format with a Yashica 124... and the redhead girl jokes! :D
back alley
02-17-2006, 07:36
i miss roman...
wow lots of stuff i had forgotten, like having 2 mamiya 6 cameras. that just seems like sooo long ago.
and it feels like i have been the mod forever!
i wonder if we need an historian who could document all this great stuff. we could have a small section open only to him/her to write our history...oh jorge...?
joe
back alley
02-17-2006, 07:37
And, of course, how could anyone forget joe's foray into medium format with a Yashica 124... and the redhead girl jokes! :D
ya HAD to remind me...;)
Man, i actually remember some things mentioned in this thread. yikes.
SergioGuerra
02-17-2006, 07:54
Since I am a noob here, would like to ask... When did it all start? (First thread... first post... )
Cheers, and keep on the wonderfull work :)
Sergio
... when peter was the only one... the "public bathroom selfportrait" guy ... :D
. . . you remember when Natalie and Roman were prolific posters.
...or when Natalia was known as 'Lil' Red Spy'
.
And wasn't Pherdie posting street shots/club shots taken with a TLR while waiting for his first RF?
Gene
SolaresLarrave
02-17-2006, 08:18
Sergio, it was once upon a time, in a distant galaxy... :)
Sorry, couldn't help! :D
JoeFriday
02-17-2006, 08:33
"a long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away"
SergioGuerra
02-17-2006, 08:44
We should start a Star Wars thread... :D
SolaresLarrave
02-17-2006, 08:47
Thanks, Brett! At least I got the gist of it.
You remember the 'Marketplace' photo project ;)
I still feel badly that I was one of the guys who told Joe how wonderful the Canon P was before he bought his first, and then sold my P as soon as I discovered Nikon RF's. Fickle, fickle fickle.
back alley
02-17-2006, 19:41
and it still is a wondeful camera.
i'm not sure i need 2 but i will always have one.
joe
SolaresLarrave
02-17-2006, 21:17
How about "Shadows" in February! :eek:
That was fun! ;)
flashover
02-17-2006, 21:22
hey when I was working as the school yearbook photo type guy with my Brand new FX-3 we use to laugh at the guy using the rangefinder. Now I feel old.
nwcanonman
02-17-2006, 22:18
- Remembering the old look of the RFF.
- When Rich got us so psyced about the first RF book (I still am ~ ; -)
- When Russ used to post here (Russ who?)
- When I paid $40usd for a super clean QL17 and thought that was too much.
- When Joe used to have to wait such a long time for Canada Post ........
Oh yeah,........ he still does - LOL.
nwcanonman
02-17-2006, 22:30
- When you're the old guy at Seattle's RFF meeting tomorrow (well, Saturday's almost today).
- Come on, Gordy's giving free straps for beers (ha, ha - just joking.. right Gordy?).
Rich Silfver
02-17-2006, 22:50
Man, I remember every single one of those...
Remember when...
* Bill drove half-way across the country when he moved,
* You could log in and there wouldn't be more than a handful users logged on,
* New posts would be on the 'new posts page' for a week...
* When it was almost a race to see who would get to 1,000 posts.
* The 'Design a RFF t-shirt thread'
* And ofcourse..when RFF looked like this.... http://web.archive.org/web/20031029192816/http://www.rangefinderforum.com/
Oh, and I still can't believe that the Camera and Coffee thread is going....
JoeFriday
02-17-2006, 23:02
here's the most telling thing on the old site..
"Most users ever online was 32 on 10-12-2003 at 19:35."
Or the Top 10 posters as of that date.
http://web.archive.org/web/20031005234906/www.rangefinderforum.com/top.php
Frank Granovski
02-18-2006, 01:44
Ya been on RFF a long time if ... you suddenly notice you have a beard. :cool:
back alley
02-18-2006, 05:28
Or the Top 10 posters as of that date.
http://web.archive.org/web/20031005234906/www.rangefinderforum.com/top.php
omg, i had 132 posts then!
ah, the sweet virginal experience...
Hey:)
I remember that. How did she change her handle? I can't seem to find that option in the User CP. I'd like to change.
ManGo
Send a PM to Jorge with the change you'd like. I originally registered as Gene then realized that wasn't fair to the rest of the Gene pool, so I asked Jorge to change it to GeneW, which he did. You don't lose any of your links or gallery photos if he makes the change.
Gene
back alley
02-18-2006, 14:24
i can change it for you too manny.
let me know to what.
joe
i can change it for you too manny.
let me know to what.
joe
It's gotta be ManGo, right? That's my vote.
.
Kim Coxon
02-18-2006, 14:50
How's about
"When Joe still had some Canon P's" :D :D :D :D
back alley
02-18-2006, 14:59
i will always have one.
if the atomic boom ever hits, it's the p and the streets for me!
;)
Who will see the pics? :(
yossarian
02-18-2006, 15:48
You know, there's a flip side to this--having been here only a short time and wondering what Florida State University had to do with rangefinders.
dostacos
02-19-2006, 07:56
when you weren't there during most of this and you STILL feel like you have been here forever...
downside of RFF: GAS
upside of RFF: take a box out of the mail box and all your wife says is "you have another one by the front door" :D
haven't been here long but,
I remember when all of these cameras were new...
"wouldn't it be cool if we could actualy show photographs on like a BBS?
if the atomic boom ever hits, it's the p and the streets for me!
;)
The pics will have that Canon glow ...
Gene
jamiewakeham
05-03-2006, 01:24
Crikey. I do remember most of those things, even though my post count is pitiful. I must just be a lurker at heart...
I do remember that I only came here via google trying to find out if these 'zorki' things actually worked :)
Jamie
shutterflower
05-03-2006, 01:28
You've been around to see it grow - and the growth has been considerable.
Ya been on RFF a long time if...
- after lurking for ages, you decided to register and participate in the upcoming monthly photo project..
Nobody knew where Iraq is located.
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