Hipsters stunned

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<p><a href="http://www.hayibo.com/hipsters-stunned-as-vintage-cameras-fail-to-make-them-professional-photographers/">http://www.hayibo.com/hipsters-stunned-as-vintage-cameras-fail-to-make-them-professional-photographers/</a></p>

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[dennis_w3]

<p>Hilarious!</p>

[tom_mann1]

<p>That is *REALLY* good! Thanks for posting it.</p>

[SCL]

<p>DUH.....what a riot!</p>

[Matt Laur]

<p>Hipster Photographer Rescue. <br /><br />Fantastic!</p>

[lex_jenkins]

<p>I read that article before it sold out and went mainstream.</p>

[starvy]

<p>What annoys me the most is that why won't these hipsters want to use their iPhone and take Instagram pictures instead?</p>

[daverhaas]

<p>@starvy - They used to, but when executives and people in suits started doing that too, it stopped being hip. </p>

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[ljwest]

<p>Good stuff!</p>

[william_vickers1]

<p>Great satire!</p>

[JDMvW]

<p>Heh Heh! :)</p>

[mark_medin]

<p>It started out as being nearly worthy of the Onion, but didn't <em>quite</em> get there. Pretty funny, anyhow.</p>

[tony_lockerbie]

<p>Top stuff. I used to be a hipster once, back in the sixties....maybe I can re-kindle the flame?</p>

[User_4525289]

<p>Just wait until hipsters discovered Leica or FSU gear. </p>

[william_vickers1]

<p>Kozma Prutkoff wrote:<br />"Just wait until hipsters discovered Leica or FSU gear."<br />Well, the article does mention a "Lomograph" camera. Lomo cameras are FSU gear.</p>

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[kris-bochenek]

<p>I thought it was real stuff until I saw names such as Retrough and Anthropy. Funny though and close to the truth. Now what are we then? Are we just bunch of classic camera users or are we leaning towards hipsterism? I use my classic Yashicas quite a lot, but I do not make cracks in the case to create light leaks or cross process my film.</p>

[john carter]

<p>Some artists are discovered way after they are gone. Some have immediate success; like Andy Warhol, that is what these people want.</p>

[maciek_stankiewicz]

<p>Great article :) An Eye-opener for some, that's for sure :)</p>

[Lou_Meluso]

<p>Cute, harmless fun. Made me laugh.<br>

But don't be too hard on those young, hip folk. When I was a kid, a bit younger than the fellow in the article, I thought a Canonet, Tri-X and a heartfelt brooding demeanor would make me the next Gene Smith or Al Eisenstaedt. But I learned. They'll learn, too. We all start somewhere. Besides, those young people buy lots of old cameras and a ton of film. A good thing.</p>

[randyjay]

<p>It's not the camera, it's the eye behind the lens.</p>

[q.g._de_bakker]

The Elephant In The Room (i'll phrase it as a question): how many such hipsters are there in this select company of CMC-ers?<br>;-)

[randyjay]

<p>Yep! I'm a 60 year old Hipster! I'm standing by a log cabin with my N&W hat on, with my Yashica Minister D rangefinder around my neck.</p>

<p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v730/diecastdeluxe/freda/log5.jpg" alt="" width="776" height="527" /></p>

[chuck_foreman1]

<p>I really enjoyed that . A satire written just for us! . I really had to laugh at Les S. comment about Hip replacement! But many other comments are introspective and ...umm looking in the mirror, the elephant in the room and such! How about if the shoe fits... We're about a month away from Photokina. Last time there I was very surprised (dissappointed??) at the "hipsters" there all embracing Lomography. I was pawning a free DVD for an on-line photo course nearby and one "hipster" when oferred a DVD, raised both hands in self defense repeating loudly "Analog Man, Analog!" I resisted the impulse to bitch-slap the twerp!<br>

I hope we can manage to embrace the tools without putting on an attitude. The best laugh is laughing at yourself!<br>

Thanks for a very funny link! A recent music theory joke ( A minor triad goes into a bar....) was posted and while I thorougly enjoyed it, the audience I could share it with was extremely limited. I'm so glad this was shared .</p>

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[Rob_the_waste]

<p>You mean it's not real??? What's this world coming to? <br>

;-)</p>

[cary_chin1]

<p>Kind of reminds me of the early 1970's, sporting a Nikon doesn't make you a professional photographer.</p>