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Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: Michael Erlewine on April 04, 2018, 12:05:33 pm

Title: MUSINGS: SHIFTING GEAR
Post by: Michael Erlewine on April 04, 2018, 12:05:33 pm
I'm tired of this forum hijacking threads for trivia.
Title: Re: MUSINGS: SHIFTING GEAR
Post by: KLaban on April 04, 2018, 12:26:29 pm
I buy and use as little as I can possibly get away with, which in practice over a photographic lifetime has been very little.

Am I alone in despising the term gear?
Title: Re: MUSINGS: SHIFTING GEAR
Post by: KLaban on April 04, 2018, 01:06:54 pm
As this is a shifting gear thread I should add that if anything is found to be surplus to requirements it's sold on eBay.
Title: Re: MUSINGS: SHIFTING GEAR
Post by: Rob C on April 04, 2018, 02:13:50 pm
I buy and use as little as I can possibly get away with, which in practice over a photographic lifetime has been very little.

Am I alone in despising the term gear?


It's certainly not terribly appropriate, though I suppose even mainly solid state devices have gears of some kind, even if not to wind on digital films; just imagine if people had adopted the term tackle, instead.
Title: Re: MUSINGS: SHIFTING GEAR
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on April 04, 2018, 03:38:32 pm
It always sounded to me like the french "truc" and "machin"...
I think it would be more contemp to say f....g (beeeep) gear instead, init?

Fred, this is a wholly inappropriate post. It contributes nothing. Don't do it again.

Jeremy
Title: Re: MUSINGS: SHIFTING GEAR
Post by: fredjeang2 on April 04, 2018, 04:55:04 pm
Fred, this is a wholly inappropriate post. It contributes nothing. Don't do it again.

Jeremy
Correct Jeremy. Deleted.
Title: Re: MUSINGS: SHIFTING GEAR
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on April 04, 2018, 06:10:22 pm
Thanks, Fred.

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