At 01:06 2/18/00 , Joel Wilcox wrote:
>
>I'd match the music. If you're playing classical, the nice camera. Beater
>camera for the blues.
>
Much what I do, but couldn't have said it better. I also take the older
chrome finish, maybe with one other lens, into locales where new,
expensive, black body stuff might attract a thief. Don't go those places
that often. It is common practice among street-shooters to use "beaters"
for that very reason.
In the same vein, I bought a new Tamrac late last year. The 20 year old
one was running out of room. A friend suggested I flatten out the new one
on the driveway (without anything in it) and drive the auto back and forth
across it a few times. Told me _new_ camera bags that are obviously camera
bags can attract theft. Supposedly an old beater reduces the risk. His
way of making a new bag look like a beater. (To me it's a way to _make_ a
beater quickly.)
Some camera brassing can actually lend character to the body. Great for
spinning all manner of stories about photographic exploits: the ding from
hitting the Elbonian border guard over the head to get photos of abused
orphans out to the world; how it wore through the finish on a corner
rubbing against the side of a camel bouncing across Sahara doing a
documentary on a long lost WWII aircraft and its crew. A little
imagination could create a great story about every ding, scratch and scuff.
-- John
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