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Which Board? => Main Forum => : zapsnaps March 25, 2016, 09:30:18 AM
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I have a group of cameras, which is occasionally added to, (very) occasionally thinned out. A 'collection' makes it sound static and perhaps unused. It also has scholarly connotations, with which I am uncomfortable.
I buy what pleases, usually on looks or an amusing name (I have a Beirette and want to buy a Wirgin and a FOCA). Things are bought for fun & used, rather than to chuck in a glass display case for others to pay deference to. So, does anybody have a better collective noun for their family or group of cameras than a collection?
Or in a reference to an old primary school chat-up line, what do you call yours?
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I prefer "pile".
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'Pile' is good. I may have a pile of them on my desk at the minute, actually.
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Mine is more a horde...
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I would go for 'a flight' or 'gang'. On second thoughts 'flight' suggests something light and moveable. 'gang' is more suitable for sl66se/RZ67/SWC.
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My wife calls it a mess.
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I think of mine as a tribe... all slightly different, but working toward one purpose. Someday, I might have a horde (hoard?), but not yet.
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A sh*tload.
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A "capture" - or does that have too many d*g*tal connotations?
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Sticking to my pseudo-scientific method of determining things by scanning the results of a google search of collective nouns for at least a minute and a half, I have decided upon the term cluster.
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It's a bag of cameras.
BAG, noun that cannot be rendered as plural, EVER.
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This thread is just bags of fun.
I think of mine as a fleet...
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hm.... for non shooters I probably say collection but for those in the same line of.. eh, yeah THIS! :D I'll more often call them family ;)
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I think of mine as a fleet...
I like this one the best so far.
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It's a bag of cameras.
BAG, noun that cannot be rendered as plural, EVER.
My wife wouldn't agree that you can't have a plural of bag. She's got a plural of bag many times over... in fact she's got a shedload of them.
Ah, there you go, a shedload of cameras.
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Thank you, Satish!
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Mine is both a clutter and a clatter.
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Mine is both a clutter and a clatter.
My SRT is a clatter every time I press the shutter button! ;D
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Favorites so far:
jharr's "tribe"
Adam's "cluster" (although that leads too easily into "clusterf***" which may be either more or less accurate, actually)
Terry's "fleet"
As for me, I have always like the oddball descriptors of collective nouns. How about "a murder of cameras"? An exaltation? A gaggle? Hmmm, I think I'm leaning towards gaggle.
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arsenal !
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Funny nobody chose a heard...
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Funny nobody chose a heard...
That would be if we were discussing audio equipment, maybe. ;)
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Funny nobody chose a heard...
That would be if we were discussing audio equipment, maybe. ;)
How about a seen then? ;)
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Surely it has to be a "clique" don't it!
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Max Weber would say 'a Gemeinschaft'.
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Funny nobody chose a heard...
That would be if we were discussing audio equipment, maybe. ;)
How about a seen then? ;)
I just love autocorrect! ::)
I meant herd
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As for me, I have always like the oddball descriptors of collective nouns. How about "a murder of cameras"? An exaltation? A gaggle? Hmmm, I think I'm leaning towards gaggle.
A suffrage of cameras? A defamation of cameras? A remembrance of cameras?
:)
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How about a Focus or an Occulous?
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a camaraderie
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a camaraderie
Ooooh, good one.
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Sartre; "les autres"
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A flock of flocked boxes?
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How about "bunch"?
I also like herd, reminds me of Woody Hermans herds.
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How about a brood?
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...As for me, I have always like the oddball descriptors of collective nouns. How about "a murder of cameras"? An exaltation? A gaggle? Hmmm, I think I'm leaning towards gaggle.
Would then a collection of instant cameras be a pod?
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...As for me, I have always like the oddball descriptors of collective nouns. How about "a murder of cameras"? An exaltation? A gaggle? Hmmm, I think I'm leaning towards gaggle.
Would then a collection of instant cameras be a pod?
That's funny to think of different kinds of cameras having different collective nouns. I suppose a collection of instamatics would be a 'cartridge'. Maybe a 'bifurcation' of TLRs?
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The lamest term I have ever heard (semi)seriously used for a 'collection of something' was back when SLVR and I were longboarders and dudes would talk about what is in your 'quiver' (think Robinhood's group of men).
I am leaning towards either 'pile' or the wife-approved 'mess' suggestions!
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The lamest term I have ever heard (semi)seriously used for a 'collection of something' was back when SLVR and I were longboarders and dudes would talk about what is in your 'quiver' (think Robinhood's group of men).
I am leaning towards either 'pile' or the wife-approved 'mess' suggestions!
I wouldn't say she approves of it, more like tolerates.
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As mom always says, as long as it's confined to a single remote room with a door that closes it's OK. ;D
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A 'snap'.
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Ohhh! Very rice crispies of you ;)
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how about a "Lot"
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I usually refer to mine as a "herd"
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Have we had "a FEDeration" of cameras yet?
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Alternatively - and sailing very close to the wind in terms of nonsensical collective nouns - how about "A Work In Progress" of cameras? Or "A Not Done Yet" of cameras? Possibly "A Burgeoning" of cameras? A "Just Getting Started" of cameras? "A Hobby" of cameras?
I quite like Burgeoning.
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I've just been trawling through my memory for a term I heard used by a teacher many years ago and which, when I questioned what it meant, I was told "enough".
The term? An Elegant Sufficiency.
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Right now, I'm more having a camera bloom :)
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Right now, I'm more having a camera bloom :)
Then I guess you would have a Bouquet of cameras!
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I wonder what that does to our flower foul? ;D
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I've just been trawling through my memory for a term I heard used by a teacher many years ago and which, when I questioned what it meant, I was told "enough".
The term? An Elegant Sufficiency.
A sufficiency of cameras is either a blasphemy or a fairytale. :)
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A sufficiency of cameras is either a blasphemy or a fairytale. :)
Wise words indeed, Jack :)
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Maybe whatever this guy calls his stash.
http://petapixel.com/2016/07/25/photographer-owns-125000-nikon-camera-gear/ (http://petapixel.com/2016/07/25/photographer-owns-125000-nikon-camera-gear/)
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Now that's what I call brand loyalty ;D