Any other packrats out there?

The story goes that William Randolph Hearst decided that he wanted a certain classic statue and spent a bunch of money searching for it.

Turned out that he had it in one of his warehouses all a long.

For those who don't know of Hearst, he had a newspaper empire during the early 1900s.

Funny! Still have one, and until the last move, a working Mimeograph to go with it.

An old college joke: What did the physics professor do when he had constipation? He worked it out on a slide rule. (No one under age 40 gets this.)

I've started a major purge of crap I no longer need and I'm confronted with many dilemmas: should I really get rid of that Nikon F3HP box, the Nikon LS-4000 scanner box, the large format Nikkor ED120mm f/5.6 lens box, etc? I keep telling myself that original boxes increase resale value, but really I suspect this is just a deep-seated character flaw or evolutionary vestige of a now useless behavior trait; after all I still have the box for a Hasselblad Xpan I sold without the box.

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I'm much worse than that. Sadly my boxes got trashed years ago. Some would have come in handy now that I'm scaling back my photo gear and selling some off. Just no room for it all.

My dream house would have wall to wall chrome shelving. I don't have many interests Just photography and archival work. So a dedicated house set up for archival work and photography is fine by me. I especially would like adjustable electric work tables and a dark room for post processing. The sun is terrible. Sometimes I have to use a black cloth over my head and the monitor. And the film work (cine') takes up most of the room. Film is a money and space sucking activity.

Ran out of edit time. Here is just a fraction of the stuff...

...and I mean a small fraction!

I did keep one box...for my Hasselblad SWC. I've always been in love with it. Although the first SWC I bought was a mess. It was pretty worn out. I bought it from an Art Center student quiting photography . It had sticky shutter speeds and had no box. But back in the 70's I was lucky to be able to even afford a broken down Hassy. My boxed SWC is one of the last radioactive lens models.

This is a shot from the broken down SWC from 1975. Clutter is different for everyone. 'Crazy' used to keep his bike in his bedroom.

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I have the boxes of my latest Nikon cameras and lenses, and almost none of any other photo-equipment. I don't know if that has any significance.

A propos the quote above: there are no radioactive Biogons in any SW model. They changed glass to a formulation without toxic heavy metals, to reduce exposure to toxic slur in production of the elements. Lead free.

I did keep one box...for my Hasselblad SWC. I've always been in love with it. Although the first SWC I bought was a mess. It was pretty worn out. I bought it from an Art Center student quiting photography . It had sticky shutter speeds and had no box. But back in the 70's I was lucky to be able to even afford a broken down Hassy. My boxed SWC is one of the last radioactive lens models.

 

This is a shot from the broken down SWC from 1975. Clutter is different for everyone. 'Crazy' used to keep his bike in his bedroom.

 

 

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Great shot of the bike in the bedroom. Years ago I moved from Rochester NY to Philadelphia, PA on a Yamaha 750. On the way down I stayed in a motel in a sketchy part of town and squeezed the bike into my motel room out of fear someone would load it up overnight. Alas no photos

Great shot of the bike in the bedroom. Years ago I moved from Rochester NY to Philadelphia, PA on a Yamaha 750. On the way down I stayed in a motel in a sketchy part of town and squeezed the bike into my motel room out of fear someone would load it up overnight. Alas no photos

Re the bike in the bedroom: perhaps not that uncommon (well...) but i have seen a house being redesigned and rebuild to make it possible to park a car in the living room. They like their car a lot, i guess.