I really enjoy cooking old school style. I collect cookbooks and vintage cookware. There is nothing like using vintage cast iron or copper cookware to prepare a recipe that was written over a hundred years ago. Here are a few cast iron skillets that I reconditioned for my collection. From left to right:
Wagner - 1956
Griswold - 1935
Wagner - 1915

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May I please have a vintage 1915 blackened rib eye, medium rare???

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Did I mention crocks?

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Cameras, stamps, books, music, skillets, even sewing machines.
None of those really surprised me.
But the garage full of Crocks.
Did not expect that one!
I'm trying not to say, What a Crock!
Too little too late, already said it!

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Books on Gettysburg, Springfield Armory, and my flower garden.

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I'd definitely be interested in your cameras and lenses if you do indeed want to part with them.

Let me know what you have and what you'd want for it.

I have a Minolta X700 that I enjoy using, but haven't done a lot since I only have a 50mm lens for it.

Thanks,
Ben

I mostly am a medium and large format user, but there's nothing like shooting Tri-X in a 35mm camera. It's my most used film-both in 35mm and medium format-and it's just such a great all around film. Unfortunately, I'm not happy about the fact that only Tri-X Professional(TXP-320) is available in 4x5, while standard Tri-X (TX-400) is only available in 35mm and 120. The films are quite different in the "toe" region, so all my experience with TX-400 is mostly irrelevant. I did fortunately pick up some expired TXP-320 in 220(along with a $10 220 back for my Bronica) so have been playing with it before I crack open the $100 box of TXP-320 4x5 in my freezer

I've also been shooting Ilford FP4+ since it's exactly the same emulsion in 35mm, 120, and 4x5 and I like supporting Ilford. It's an indirect replacement for my old favorite of Kodak Plus-X(I have a lot of 35mm Plus-X in the freezer) but it's a great film in its own right.

I shoot very little color print film, although I do really like the new Ektar 100. E-6 has been my mainstay for color work for years, though, and I love Fuji Velvia 50. Unfortuantelly, all I can get in the US in 4x5(fresh) is Velvia 100(RVP100), although I have some expired "original" Velvia 50(RVP, not RVP50). Still, both RVP50 and RVP100 remain great films, and are jaw dropping on the light table in any format.

I was never an Ektachrome guy, although I did like E100GS, which was a bit warmer and a bit more saturated than the standard E100G and the consumer Elite Chrome 100(have about 50 rolls of the latter in the freezer). E100GS reminded me vaguely of Provia 100F, although I still give Provia the edge. Even 35mm slides still have a certain "wow" factor on the light table and in a good scanner that's hard to beat, and a well exposed Velvia can wow an audience who has never seen a good slide show. When Ektachrome comes out this fall, I will give it a fair chance, although I wish it was coming in more than 35mm.

I have been processing B&W at home for years. The chemistry is simple and cheap, and especially with films like Tri-X you have to try to mess it up. Plus, B&W has so much variation in different developers and times are usually unique for a certain film/developer combination. Developers and dilution also impart their own characteristic I have never had outstanding results from a commercial lab-I have had good but not outstanding negatives.

I have recently started doing E-6 at home, as I can't find any local lab that can handle sheet film. It brings its own challenges as the chemistry is SO much more complicated-in B&W you can get away with the bare basics of developer and fixer(although some will add a stop bath between the two and a rinse agent for the final step). The kit I have uses 3 chemicals, although traditional kits use 4 or 5 baths(not counting stop bath and rinse). Fortunately, the chemistry is cheap relative to commercial lab costs, and developing times/temps are standardized. On the other hand, it's done at high temperatures(105ºF, vs. 65-70º for B&W) and must be maintained at that. I still use a lab for 35mm, as I'm not set up to mount my own slides.

I USED to collect Militaria, comic books, movie images, original WWII photos, but now, all I can afford is--debt and boredom.

Anvils. Big ones down to salesman samples. I pity the wife if I die first.

I'm using film in my Mamiya RB67 and my Pentax 6X7 cameras. Real photographers use film, unless they are using wet plate photography. Photography using film is an art form. Digital photography is something else.

Ben; I started shooting photos as a kid. My mother gave me a Agfa box camera shooting 120 film, some time in the late 50's . (similar to the much more famous Kodak Brownie). I was still using the old thing in the early 70's but I had several other cameras until the 70"s when Canon came out with the AE-1. I fell in love with that camera. I still used one until about five years ago. I also had a Minolta XE-7 that was really really good. I had a closet full of lens for both. I shot mainly color. But occasionally black and white. Loved Tri-X. Didn't much like Velvia. I like warmer colors. But I also had a couple of old medium format cameras that I used occasionally but I preferred 35mm. Mostly I used Kodak Professional 400, but I would switch sometimes just to try something else. Tried Kodachrome. I never liked slides. So I very rarely shot slide film.My son loved the stuff and has thousands of slides, but has now gone digital too.

I went over to the dark side in 2005. I bought a Canon 20D. What a great camera. But learning to shoot digital is really different. All the exposure rules are backwards and it's hard to break the habits of 40 or 50 years. But I finally put away my film in 2016. I bought a Canon 80D and Wow what difference 10 years makes in the quality of an image. Of course when you go digital you also have to upgrade your computer and software and buy some really big hard drives to store all those images. And everything has to be duplicated in case a hard drive crashes (twice now) But no more development costs and almost instant look at the results. No need to take a roll of film to make sure you got the shot exactly right. But I do miss the film. Oh yeah, you also have to buy a really good photographic printer. I finally gave up on that. The expense for a good photo quality printer and ink cartridges is just out of sight and the printer was always breaking down or doing something screwy. 4 X 6 or 5 x 7 I can do on my regular printer and the quality is fine. Anything bigger looks awful. Now if I need enlargements I take a cd or thumb drive to a local lab and get them printed on good quality paper.

I'd love to shoot with them, just not many places developing. My dad sold all his lab equipment before he got rid of all his cameras (and before moving out of state)... would have loved to have all that and do it myself. Don't have the time to learn and do it anyway.


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Sorry, thought I sent that post as a PM.

In any case, I'll send you one in a minute.

Collecting things can be a lot of fun, I know. I know folks that collect owls, roosters, cameras, watches, coins, stamps etc. Here a while back I decided to try collecting something. I finally chose Thousand Dollar bills. I don't have any yet but I'm sure looking forward to gettin' my first one.

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Most of my collecting isn't of valuable stuff, just things that catch my eye.

Anything with a pinup girl on it (vintage stuff, not interested in Budweiser girls on a poster),old books on hunting and fishing around the world, air guns, militaria, old toys, comics, shop manuals, lighters, knives, old auto parts, tools, whiskey. The list goes on.

The boys love hanging out in my shop, there's always cool stuff to play with. Wife thinks most of it is junk, but she doesn't need to hang out there if she doesn't want to.

That's crazy... just made one last night and you were nowhere to be found.....

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1/16th scale toy farm tractors; stuff from the 50's to 70's only.

Patrician Spoke (green) Depression Glass.

I'll pass on the glass-
But I for one would love to see pics of those Tractors!

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Toy farm tractors, particularly Farmalls, International Harvester.

I don't collect anything.................................

But I have managed to accumulate a number of things.....................

Along with my accumulation of firearms...........at one time we had 6 ATVs from a 1983 Honda Big Red 3-wheeler to a 2012 Polaris RZR....... sold the smallest a 90cc 4wheeler to a friend for his grandkids.

Also knives.....the accumulation seemed to have started about the time I started watching "The Walking Dead"!! The big knives are mostly Ka-Bar and Hogue.

Seiko automatic Divers watches..... seem to have accumulated also!

Book, lots and lots of books, knives and Multi-tools and Military Surplus items.

Exactly how do you "collect" ex-wives ?.......I thought you just; shall we say, "left them in your rear-view mirror " ............... one at a time!

Velvia is very much a love-or-hate film, but I happen to love it. You do have to nail the exposures with it, though(although underexposing by 1/3 stop or so can open the film up). It's interesting to me that you found it too cool for your taste-one of the things Velvia is noted for is how warmly it tends to render reds and yellows. I wonder if maybe you tried 100F, which eliminates a lot of the warmth of the original Velvia, new Velvia 50, and Velvia 100(no F).

I was never a Kodachrome fan either, even though I know people rave about it. I found that the contrast made it difficult to shoot well, and even with the exposure correct I found it a bit on the dull side. Even so, I did shoot a few rolls in 2010 as a last hurrah. Apparently Kodak Alaris is investigating bringing it back, and if they do I'll support them although it won't be a mainstay film for me.

Knives. I have to add more words to this reply. According to the lil window that just popped up. Why it can't accept the one word is dumb.

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As you wish ...... 430 Deere from the 50's .... not any of the new Ertl / foreign owned and made modern examples.

Had just gotten started collecting watches (only real keepers are several certified Omega Constellations and Seamasters, and a series of Seiko 7A series chronometers) and accumulating a pile of watch repair tools and supplies, when I got hit with arthritis in my hands. Now, as noted elsewhere, I have no depth perception.. If anybody wants to trade S&W revollvers for a room full of watch repair tools and cbinets full of obscure watch crystals, holler!


Then went to collecting--no, accumulating--old cast iron American - made woodworking machinery--easier to put wrenches on than watch parts, and less likely to vanish if dropped. Still working on all that, since most of what I have will require restoration once the surgeo nsays I can break a sweat without blowing out my remaining eye.

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May have been. Been a while and don't really remember. It's all moot now. I can adjust my digital camera to any temperature I want. And if I don't like it there is always photo shop.

A man after my own heart... neat watches and lots of variations...

As for my current collecting, since I no longer work I only collect aluminum cans, one of these days I hope to have enough accumulated to get another Smith & Wesson..

Problem is, all those cans make it hard to hold up the cardboard sign down on the highway... and getting them home, well......

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Fishing rods and reels and tackel (Lures) Always been a plugger (lure fishermen) salt water flats. Penns,shamino,

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My 7 year old grandson and I collect WWII items, mostly US and German helmets but most anything that catches our attention. When he comes over my house the first thing he wants to do is watch an old WWII movie or documentary.

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7 years old? Wow.... he must have served in WWII in his previous life.


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You would think so. He got into trouble at school a few weeks back for relating whatever the teacher was talking about to things that happened in WWII. His knowledge of it shocks me at times!

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When I was a kid I collected hot wheel cars. Besides revolvers I loved collecting vintage English 3-speed bicycles, but I had to sell them all off when I had my kids and have yet to get anymore. Most people up here think every old rusty bike is worth thousands because they saw one on the history channel.
Also not really a collection but I am interested in anything civil war. And I do have a few old books.

Hot Wheels.... I have thousands. 95% of them unopened. Treasure Hunts, lots of box sets, collectors editions, errors, etc.
Also coins. Have coins (and some bills) from all over the world, lots of pre EU money.
And finally, records. Not a huge collection, but most all is vintage 60s and up classic rock, prog, etc.



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Swiss Army knives, and agency badges.

I just came in from my shop where I listen to CDs my friend copied for me. Tonight's listen, Ten Years After Bluest Blues.

He gave me so many CDs. Collection? Not really but kinda.

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