Has Anyone Else Lost the REI Mojo?

Rockskipper said:
He needs the tents because he has to sleep in his back yard to make room for everything. :)
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Many a truth said in jest. ;)

Rockskipper said:
Are they all Canon?
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All but six are Canon. I have four Fuji cameras, and two Olympus ones. Two of the Fuji are medium format cameras, while the other two are waterproof point-and-shoot cameras. One of the Olympus cameras is a waterproof point-and-shoot - the Tough TG-6. The other Olympus is the first digital camera that I ever bought, back in 2003 and is the Olympus Stylus 300 with a resolution of 3.2 megapixels, which was the first in their Stylus line of point-and-shoots. I bought it for Sheila for her birthday that year. I used the stylus on a trip from the Bechler Ranger Station to Old Faithful. The micro-sd card was so small that I could only take roughly 20 shots with it at its best resolution. I was still hauling my Minolta film camera and 12 rolls of film with me back then.

Taken with the Stylus 300 at the trailhead at the Bechler Ranger Station: Can you see the Minolta strap around my chest.
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Here are some shots of the Tough TG-6 and the FUJIFILM XP waterproof one:

Shots taken with the Canon PowerShot SX120 IS
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My oldest digital camera is from 1998 and is Canon's first PowerShot, the PowerShot Pro 70 at 1.68 megapixels. I got it used off of Ebay, and it still works!

Rockskipper said:
That's what I thought this forum was all about. I mean, doesn't it show us the pitfalls of such obsessions?
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Absolutely! :thumbsup: What pitfalls? :D
 
Pringles said:
Wow, Scatman. Do they have a greeter and escort for you when you get to REI?

I realized the other night that I have an entire bedroom loaded with ultralight camping stuff. There are sleeping bags and tents and hammocks and water filters and ... . I enjoy going to REI (I now live within an hour and a half from one!), but I enjoy just going to that bedroom because all the things are in colors I like.
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Welcome to the club @Pringles! :)
 
Pringles said:
Wow, Scatman. Do they have a greeter and escort for you when you get to REI?

I realized the other night that I have an entire bedroom loaded with ultralight camping stuff. There are sleeping bags and tents and hammocks and water filters and ... . I enjoy going to REI (I now live within an hour and a half from one!), but I enjoy just going to that bedroom because all the things are in colors I like.
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Soooooo ...... you dont even need to go out of the house to think you are REI, just to your gear room!!!!
 
scatman said:
I was still hauling my Minolta film camera and 12 rolls of film with me back then.
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You look like a kid in that photo. I just got new batteries for my Canon EOS Rebel G and will start taking some film shots again. If you're not familiar with this, it might be fun:

global.canon

Canon Camera Museum

A virtual museum where we introduce Canon Camera History from our first camera to the latest one.
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I've been an REI member for 55 years. It was were just about all my half ways decent original "kit" originated from and like someone else here, I still have all that stuff. The REI "two man" tent remains functional as does the McKinley down bag. Do I use them? Nope, with the caveat that the full zip bag makes a great addition for a throw "quilt" when Jeep camping in cold weather. Most of my current gear also came through them but at 80 years young, I don't anticipate I'll be purchasing much more of this stuff. Soooo, the REI card has been mothballed and like Jackson, I only frequent the store when I need something quickly. But I probably have a 6 month supply of freeze dried meals (Costco & Amazon) so that isn't likely to happen with any frequency.

All that said, I have a lot of fond memories wandering around the Pike Street place. Different REI. Different world.
 
Bob said:
Soooooo ...... you dont even need to go out of the house to think you are REI, just to your gear room!!!!
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Well, I've got to open up the containers to peak inside to get my REI experience at home. :)
 
Rockskipper said:
You look like a kid in that photo. I just got new batteries for my Canon EOS Rebel G and will start taking some film shots again. If you're not familiar with this, it might be fun:

global.canon

Canon Camera Museum

A virtual museum where we introduce Canon Camera History from our first camera to the latest one.
global.canon
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I was a strapping young lad of 39 in that photo! Now I'm just - :moses: I remember days two and three of that trip being really wet. A large thunderstorm moved over the Bechler Meadows on our first night with close lightning, instant thunder and hail. It rained on us on day two and our campsite at 9B4 was a wet, muddy, just plain miserable mess. Perfect weather from day three on though.

That museum site is pretty cool. I don't own any of the R series cameras, and the only M series I have are the M, M3, and the M50. All the others I have except the early Kodak/Canon partnership and the D2000 and D6000.

I had a Minolta XG-M film camera that I got in high school. Later, I bought a Canon A-1 35mm film camera, a couple RB67 medium format film cameras, and a 4X6 large format film camera. I lugged one of those Mamiya RB67s across the Central Plateau in Yellowstone on the Mary Mountain Trail once. I got a sweet picture of Mary Lake with it. I hauled the 4X6 14 miles all the way across the Madison Plateau, that was completely burned in the 1988 fires, on the Old Fountain stagecoach road. I got a picture of the old ruts running through the meadow (Marshall Park) up top.

Picture of me at Mary Lake with my RB67
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scatman said:
I was a strapping young lad of 39 in that photo! Now I'm just - :moses: I remember days two and three of that trip being really wet. A large thunderstorm moved over the Bechler Meadows on our first night with close lightning, instant thunder and hail. It rained on us on day two and our campsite at 9B4 was a wet, muddy, just plain miserable mess. Perfect weather from day three on though.

That museum site is pretty cool. I don't own any of the R series cameras, and the only M series I have are the M, M3, and the M50. All the others I have except the early Kodak/Canon partnership and the D2000 and D6000.

I had a Minolta XG-M film camera that I got in high school. Later, I bought a Canon A-1 35mm film camera, a couple RB67 medium format film cameras, and a 4X6 large format film camera. I lugged one of those Mamiya RB67s across the Central Plateau in Yellowstone on the Mary Mountain Trail once. I got a sweet picture of Mary Lake with it. I hauled the 4X6 14 miles all the way across the Madison Plateau, that was completely burned in the 1988 fires, on the Old Fountain stagecoach road. I got a picture of the old ruts running through the meadow (Marshall Park) up top.

Picture of me at Mary Lake with my RB67
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Not taken with your RB67
 
Remember the academy stores in Texas- they had the nylon shirts as a Magellan brand. I’m still wearing one of those from like 2004…
 
Hey, I have one of those green waterproof Fuji cameras! I got a few waterproof cameras to take to the pool when I was the advisor for a kayaking group at the last college I worked at. We would practice rolls, and get pictures from underwater. I wasn't all that helpful, other than all the real action takes place underwater, and we then had the ability to see what a person was doing. It didn't matter much. The person was still upside down, unable to breathe, and it was really hard to make any comments about the action on the screen (about 1.5x1.5 inches) register. It was fun, though. And no one ever got hurt, for which I'm exceptionally thankful.

I never thought about having my own REI. My house is like a mini-mall--an REI, a music store (brass only) and a sewing shop. All in pleasant colors!
 
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