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Topic: Lights Out
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Tom Spielman
Master Film Handler
Posts: 339
From: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Registered: Apr 2016
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posted December 05, 2016 12:11 PM
Steve,
As you're alluding to, there is a large social component to many habits/hobbies including smoking. I'll bet there are a number collectors that would lose interest pretty quickly if there were no other collectors for them to interact with. I've mentioned that sailing is another hobby of mine and I see old club members, people in their 80's or more, come down to the docks even though they're no longer comfortable on a boat, - just to talk and share their experience.
There are things I used to do and hobbies I used to have that I'm not as involved with anymore. There is only so much time in the day. In the end I what I'll regret, if anything, is not spending more time with the people that matter most to me. So I do prune my hobbies now and then, even if it's not consciously. I don't think I'd ever write a "lights out" post. I'd post less and less until I didn't anymore.
Film I'll freely admit is a hobby du jour for me. I don't know if it'll really stick, but I'm enjoying myself right now. It's more fun for me than digital photography but I'm not one to argue that film is "better". You can certainly tell the difference if you look closely and some will find the look of film more pleasing.
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted December 05, 2016 12:20 PM
It's, of course up to Tom, but as others have said on this thread, this fellow will not doubt regret moving out of film.
I did way back in the early 90's, got back into around 2002, and i still regreat having left the hobby, as there are STILL to this day, a number of optical super 8 features that i had back then in the 80's that i have not been able to find again these days ...
High Road To China The last Unicorn
grrrrrr!
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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