Thread: Adding an equipment list to your profile!

Same with some gun forums I belong to. I always associate the "gear list" with $...something I don't have much of. Yes, I've accumulated a little over the years, but some could obtain what I have in a few months if they had the bank account.

Originally Posted by BobH

Putting photos of your gear in an album may not be too bad if you want to do so. What I do find slightly in bad taste is the ability to generate gear lists that appear every time you post to a thread. I belong to a camera forum that has that feature and every time I see that I think wow should that mean there is added weight to what is said. It is just a personal thing where when growing up things like that were construed to be tantamount to bragging and really bad form. Just a personal quirk, not saying it is relevant to others or that it should be.

Bob

You have a point with that Bob. It wasn't my intention to give members that kind of option nor do I believe that someones possessions increases the weight of what they have to say.

I just like LOOKING at what people have been collecting as I appreciate a beautiful blade. Perhaps the end result of this thread was to entice people to post more pictures IF they feel comfortable doing so. If they don't then that is their prerogative and no offence/judgement will be taken/made.

I have yet to see people 'brag' on here about what they have and don't think that this forum is the place to be bragging but to learn and share and enjoy.

Oh, I do understand your intentions, who does not like looking at razor porn. Nor did I say anyone was bragging, just a personality quirk that I have about equipment lists. For me, there is plenty of razor porn on display in the various groups for manufacturers and in the show and tell. I also try and keep what little privacy I am left these days and I am not even on stuff like facebook. Again another personal quirk and not applicable to anyone else.

Bob

the "old guys" are the reason we are able to even be on this website, why there is so much information on every subject. They take the time to mentor us. I agree there must be some amazing hidden gems out there, but you can search and most often times find info on nearly any razor, and usually with a photo. Membership is based on posts, that i can make out, not shaves, so even though i am not a junior member now, i still consider myself very much a junior shaver. Everyone loves to see the latest restore, and custom, but bottom line for me at the moment is to perfect shaving, and everything else associated with it, including eventually restoring razors. Because of what i have learned here in two months, if i had the choice between my first $4 straight, and believe me its not pretty, and the latest gillette mk9 vibrating, self-cleaning, self-lubricating razor with a trimmer on the other end, guaranteed to clog within 2 seconds, in blue or silver, i would pick the straight....................... Mind you, a trimmer would be handy aye?...............Na.

Originally Posted by brooksie967

You've got some wonderful pictures! I'm actually into photography myself! I picked up the Sony A77 this year and have 3 lenses for it. I see you've found the sunburst/lense flare tool in photoshop? I used to hate seeing lense flare in my pictures but now I find myself chasing it! There is something special about the way light refracts within each lense that gives very different results depending on the lense.

You, Carl, have bought into what I was trying to sell and appreciate it!

Thank you. I was a little obsessed about the lens flare a while ago, but I actually use GIMP for my photos...I do like 'natural' lens flare and some of the vignetting I get with my Holga...