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: What Photographer Are You?
: gary m July 16, 2012, 11:49:35 PM
Picked up this funny pic from the Photographic Center Northwest's Facebook page.  ;)
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: Ed Wenn July 18, 2012, 11:09:15 PM
Gary, I LOVE this, but what the heck is a Capison...no wait.....Doh!!!

 :-[ :-[ :-[ ;D
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: DS July 18, 2012, 11:29:08 PM
Gary, I LOVE this, but what the heck is a Capison...no wait.....Doh!!!

 :-[ :-[ :-[ ;D

I actually googled capison to try and find a dictionary definition. I am a dunce.
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: gary m July 19, 2012, 12:13:33 AM
I just finally got it myself! lol
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: LeonY July 19, 2012, 02:07:00 AM
i dont get it. what is capison?
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: sapata July 19, 2012, 02:21:46 AM
And I was ashamed of myself that after living in London for such a long time didn't know what the hell is capison!  :o
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: Late Developer July 19, 2012, 08:24:17 AM
........look at the photo. The "cap is on"........ ???

As a rangefinder user, this has happened to me more than once and will probably do so again  :o
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: Francois July 19, 2012, 03:15:04 PM
i dont get it. what is capison?
Simple: lets look at the semantics and phonetics of the word!

cap-is-on, pronounced just like that. Cap comes from the word cap. Is comes from the verb to be. On is the opposite of off. :)

Actually, it took me a few seconds to figure it out until I noticed the clue in the image...
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: astrobeck July 19, 2012, 05:09:52 PM
my preferred style is "Capisoff"
 8)
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: Ed Wenn July 19, 2012, 06:40:41 PM
I love the fact that a couple of academics here got caught out...and I thought I was being really dumb. I finally worked it out while I was writing, "What the heck is a...".
 ;D ;D

Becky: I'm more of a capisoffbutmypicturewillstillsuck type of photographer  ;)
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: Francois July 19, 2012, 08:35:14 PM
I thought you were more the IsawagreatpicturebutImisseditbecauseIwasslowonthebutton type  ;)

Oh! wait, that was for me  ;D
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: Ordinal July 19, 2012, 09:04:36 PM
I thought it was something like a capuchin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capuchin_monkey). Or possibly a cornichon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gherkin).
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: astrobeck July 19, 2012, 09:28:59 PM
I love the fact that a couple of academics here got caught out...and I thought I was being really dumb. I finally worked it out while I was writing, "What the heck is a...".
 ;D ;D

Becky: I'm more of a capisoffbutmypicturewillstillsuck type of photographer  ;)

This has been a fun thread to read!
It just proves once again that we humans are primo at making things more complicated than they should be at times.
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: Jack Johnson July 21, 2012, 04:42:32 PM
........look at the photo. The "cap is on"........ ???

As a rangefinder user, this has happened to me more than once and will probably do so again  :o

I think since I first began shooting I've always held the cap with my teeth while I shoot. If it's a long amble I'll stuff it in a pocket, but often I see something, I grab the camera, cap in teeth, click, replace the cap, move on.

I've never lost a cap, even the notorious Diana Mini cap (though I did replace the Great Wall cap -- it'll fall off if the dog sneezes), but I have to admit I have spent some time looking for my Rollei 35S cap after shooting, as I can't see it below my nose. :D
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: DS July 21, 2012, 10:42:55 PM
I love the fact that a couple of academics here got caught out...and I thought I was being really dumb. I finally worked it out while I was writing, "What the heck is a...".
 ;D ;D

Some of the dumbest people I know are academics  :o
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: Francois July 23, 2012, 01:33:29 PM
 :o
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: Volker July 23, 2012, 04:16:01 PM
Maybe you don't know this short video....

How to NOT use a Leica (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5IYahsPK2k#ws)
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: Francois July 23, 2012, 09:05:25 PM
I just love the look on his face when he's chimpin :)
And somehow he can't figure out why he's shooting only dark lifeless moody pictures  ;D
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: Andrej K July 23, 2012, 09:10:38 PM
Funny indeed..
Well, lucky for me I don't use lens caps. Well, I do, only the first time that I have new camera/lens, after that the awful lot decides to hide somewhere or run away  with other similar photographic paraphernalia..