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#33504 - 07/08/09 08:12 AM Re: Okay, so any other hobbies besides golf? [Re: srushing]
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If Car Crazy stuff has to be explained to you, you wouldn't understand it anyway. smile
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#33516 - 07/08/09 01:08 PM Re: Okay, so any other hobbies besides golf? [Re: Bill H.]
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I take pictures.. not the digital kind, the ones on film with old manual focus cameras. I have a couple of older Nikons, Minolta, Pentax..and still collecting photography books. Love messing with shutter speeds and f-stops, especially if the shot does not have to be hurried. OK for work and quick stuff I use digital

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#33527 - 07/08/09 02:14 PM Re: Okay, so any other hobbies besides golf? [Re: fjjra]
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Fred, I'm your digital counter part then as I love my DSLR, but like shot making, I can't do as much with it I bet as you can with the true film SLR..
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#33607 - 07/10/09 03:46 PM Re: Okay, so any other hobbies besides golf? [Re: srushing]
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Originally Posted By: srushing
Tiger, so riddle me this....What does the winner get out of a car show? I just went to one here about 5 minutes from me, pretty much cars from the '30s to maybe early '70s (as I remember a 'Cuda there was was more late model than the mid 60s models.) Anyway, so I was talking to one guy who said he bought his show car about a year before and had won something in each show he was at.

So the question: Do you win more than a trophy say like $$$ to help pay for the vehicles you buy? I can't believe you do especially given the shows around here are free to visit. I'm thinking you just love cars, you buy them because of that and you show them without ever having hopes of recouping the investment you make in the cars...Is that right? Sounds kinda like marriage. smile


Heck, hardly a riddle there - well, except for the marriage part.:D. The shows I go to, we just do a wicked spit and shine and hope to get a "Best of Something" trophy. Sometimes there is some minor cash prize but it's not about the money but more about bragging rights among your buddies. Other than that, the shows are mainly a great way to get out with the family, drink some beer and munch on some dogs;

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it!

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#34373 - 08/10/09 05:25 PM Re: Okay, so any other hobbies besides golf? [Re: Tigerwannabe]
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Hmm I have lots of hobbies (my wife tells me all the time)

Shooting guns, playing ice hockey, tinkering on computers, working on my car.

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#34380 - 08/11/09 06:23 AM Re: Okay, so any other hobbies besides golf? [Re: 87vert]
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Scott; Doesn't the DSLR camera have the same adjustablility as the standard SLR? I throutht that's the whole idea of the DSLR, to have the same camera only with digital memory instead of film.
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#34385 - 08/11/09 07:08 AM Re: Okay, so any other hobbies besides golf? [Re: DON]
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basically yes. But to me, the people who worked with film and really knew how to use an SLR, knew how to do things with the camera that mere mortals can't do. Talking with folks about things they did in the dark room, etc, it's more art that us digital folks are removed from. I can appreciate folks with that skill because I see how hard it is even with the digital help. I can push buttons and have the lens or camera do something, and it just impresses me further with those that did that and more without the help of digital. It's like playing with people who can make shots happen in golf versus those of us who bang it and hope it goes straight. It's sort of art...to me at least.
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#34389 - 08/11/09 02:40 PM Re: Okay, so any other hobbies besides golf? [Re: srushing]
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No question there is an art to shooting with SLR vs DSLR. I took a fair amount of photography classes and had a friend who was a real camera geek and worked in a lab. You can't create the same effects in digital. It lacks a certain "heart".
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#34393 - 08/11/09 03:26 PM Re: Okay, so any other hobbies besides golf? [Re: Aimee]
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It does Aimee. I would love to be able to have the time to go back and take those types of classes and learn about lenses and such some day. But I fear it's a dieing art because of the digital nature of things.
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#34397 - 08/12/09 06:31 AM Re: Okay, so any other hobbies besides golf? [Re: srushing]
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This reminds me of when I was looking to buy my SLR. I was lucky in that a good friend of mine was a professional and one of the best in Denver. I was looking at buying a Nikon with automatic everything, (FE) or one with manuel controls,(FM). He told me I would be able to take better photos with the automatic model, at first. BUT if I really wanted to LEARN how to take really good photos, I'd never learn how with the automatice model. So I got the manuel model and was forced to learn how to adjust it to get the shots I wanted. Never looked back on that decision, and sure glad I had a friend that was a pro to tell me what to buy.
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#34501 - 08/19/09 10:48 AM Re: Okay, so any other hobbies besides golf? [Re: laney]
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jan, where do you live?

This reminds me that Ron tells the story that Jimmy Demaret was a pro in Galveston for awhile. He told Ron that he learned a lot about how to hit a golf ball by hitting balls out of the sand on the beach.


In Phil Mickelson's book there was a story about when he was a kid and his family would go to the beach for the summer he would take his clubs and while the other kids were building sand castles he was hitting flop shots over the dunes.

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#34523 - 08/20/09 12:29 PM Re: Okay, so any other hobbies besides golf? [Re: DON]
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DON,
I too have an Nikon FM which is basically my go-to and back up camera. Rock solid and dependable.

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#34537 - 08/21/09 07:47 AM Re: Okay, so any other hobbies besides golf? [Re: fjjra]
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Fred. I still have mine sitting in a closet with 3 lens somewhere. Don't know the last time I used it, as digital is so much easier and cheaper to use. You don't have the adjustable features of the SLR. but it's sure cheaper to use. No film the buy, no cost to develope or print.
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#34545 - 08/21/09 12:28 PM Re: Okay, so any other hobbies besides golf? [Re: DON]
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Yeah..I do have digital which I use for work stuff as the photo files are useful, and I use an automatic, non-digital for important personal stuff but the FM is still in the bag as a fool-proof backup.

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#34697 - 09/06/09 10:52 AM Re: Okay, so any other hobbies besides golf? [Re: fjjra]
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I have way too many hobbies, and it seems all of them are expensive.

Golf, Fishing, Woodworking, Cooking, Computers, and my latest is club making.

I re-gripped my first club ever the other night, and I already have the components to make two drivers sitting under the carport.

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#35274 - 11/05/09 02:36 AM Re: Okay, so any other hobbies besides golf? [Re: srushing]
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I love to read. I will read almost anything and I like to try to keep a book with me at a lot of the time. If I have a down time I usually pull a book out.

I am a huge Penn State fan. I support all sports. I go to almost all of Penn State's home football games and a lot of the basketball games. If I can you will find me at other sporting events around campus.

I am a workout fanatic. I like to get my butt kicked. The feeling of soreness that comes from a tough workout is what I crave the most.

Finally, I like to cook. I love food so cooking is a must. I love to try new foods and flavors. Spicy flavors are my favorite. I also cannot beat a good steak.
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