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Topic: Is 8mm collecting a male hobby?
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Jan Bister
Darth 8mm
Posts: 2629
From: Ohio, USA
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted September 01, 2005 07:19 PM
Autism? That's a really interesting idea... it wouldn't surprise me if it was true, actually. I can say one thing about myself, I'm somewhat obsessive-compulsive, not just about films but about everything I lay hands on... and to put it in my wife's words, I'm a neat freak, too... (She isn't - oh, the battles we fight! But we never get into arguments about it, we accept each other's ways rather well) ![[Smile]](smile.gif) And I'm definitely one who doesn't need to collect everything that isn't nailed down... only that which interests me, personally... that said, I WOULD collect a lot more than I do if I could afford to! ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Call me Phoenix. *dusts off the ashes*
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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted September 01, 2005 10:00 PM
My wife's reactions to my Super-8 bug range all the way from tolerance to mild enthusiasm, but she never quite completely gets why it's different from using the camcorder or playing DVDs.
I can't speak for everybody, but in our case it's basically the way we two are wired. I'm an engineer, so it's not just the result for me, but the technology behind it that gets me going. My wife is a social worker, and to her all technology is a black box (Not just that she doesn't understand, she doesn't care either.)
When she drives someplace, she thinks about what she will do when she gets there. When I drive someplace, I think about how the car is running. (Suffice it to say: I take care of the cars...)
In any case, in my single days I may have shared my Super-8ness with some girlfriends as entertainment, but as a route to meeting said girlfriends it would have been a dry well!
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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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James N. Savage 3
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1375
From: Washington, DC
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted September 09, 2005 06:42 AM
Hee Hee! ![[Wink]](wink.gif) Thats a good one.
Back before we had a VCR, (around 1990), my wife had asked me to teach her how to run the projector, so she could watch movies sometimes when I worked nights. She actually did quite well ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
Now, why is it that when I show movies, I always run into little tweeks, having to adjust the gate for jittery prints, blow dust from the film path, fix a splice that comes off in mid-run, etc., etc.
Its as if the projector has a mind of its own. When someone like my wife or my son show something, everything runs flawlessly. But when I show something, its like a work-out, just because the projector knows I can fix the problem, so it wants to mess with me!
Nick.
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