Other than transport, what retro do you use regularly ?

[highlandsflyer]

Constantly grabbing my wife's Fuji X100 from the cubby rather than hefting out my SLR.

 

[silverclaws]

Another rolls user here I have 2 of them. Fantastic things for scaring people with they think Im mad putting them anywhere near my beautiful face.

Oh excellent, someone else into not throwing expensive steel in the bin, which ones do you have ?

 

[GT-Steve]

I've recently found myself using a lot of retro language and insults.

the kids have no idea what a pleb is..

 

[cyfa2809]

I've recently found myself using a lot of retro language and insults.

the kids have no idea what a pleb is..

I too!
Its good to dust off some old your you forgot you remembered.

 

[silverclaws]

Ah, pleb as in plebian, what we all are in this country ruled in a Romanic way.
So yeah common folk, what's wrong with that, what's wrong with rough and ready, at least one know where they stand.

( I got to get some form of employment to take my mind away from analysing the reality of our striving).

 

[MCsanandreas]

cassette tapes,remember them? i have hundreds of em and quite often play them on my retro cassette deck!

 

[JohnH]

Yep, I'm still listening to cassette tapes on my mid-1990s Denon cassette deck, together with a Sony CD player from 1994, a Sony radio tuner from 1980, and my speakers are a pair of B&W DM4's from the mid-seventies.

The Seiko AGS watch I wear everyday was bought in about 1993, and after a replacement capacitor, is still going strong.

The mobile phone I've been using for the past 8 years is a Nokia 3310, which still raises eyebrows when I take it out of my pocket and attracts approving comments from people who are glad to see that smartphones haven't taken over the entire world.

I've just sold a vintage Zeiss-Ikon Nettar camera and bought a classic 35mm compact camera from the mid-nineties, the Olympus Mju-II...

And I've still got my old Acorn Electron computer from 1987. Can't bear to let that go...

 

[mikee]

WIFEY ?

 

[silverclaws]

Yep, I'm still listening to cassette tapes on my mid-1990s Denon cassette deck, together with a Sony CD player from 1994, a Sony radio tuner from 1980, and my speakers are a pair of B&W DM4's from the mid-seventies.

The Seiko AGS watch I wear everyday was bought in about 1993, and after a replacement capacitor, is still going strong.

The mobile phone I've been using for the past 8 years is a Nokia 3310, which still raises eyebrows when I take it out of my pocket and attracts approving comments from people who are glad to see that smartphones haven't taken over the entire world.

I've just sold a vintage Zeiss-Ikon Nettar camera and bought a classic 35mm compact camera from the mid-nineties, the Olympus Mju-II...

And I've still got my old Acorn Electron computer from 1987. Can't bear to let that go...

Yep, I still use audio cassettes and mini disc, but I do have something modernish in terms of music, a Creative Zen Vision M, my cell phone is an old Samsung E 370, which is actually better than the SE p900 I got years back when there was not the 3G network in the UK for the thing to work, and with that, the death of my interest in smart phones. SLR, I use a Nikon D70 and a much repaired Canon S50. About the most modern but of tech I have is a mac book pro unibody and that thing is two years old now.

Oh yeah and I have a Seiko kinetic which is just starting to become unreliable, either I am not mobile enough or there is something wrong with it, as it loses time now, like hours sometimes, the internal charge depleting quickly and it is not the capacitor type, more a rechargeable lithium battery I think, but I suppose that could be shot, as have had the thing about 15 years.

 

[Neil]

The Seiko AGS watch I wear everyday was bought in about 1993, and after a replacement capacitor, is still going strong.

I've got several kinetics, I even bought one of Seiko's induction chargers for them. And although I've got one of those all singing, dancing Casios, that is solar powered, and time is radio controlled, it leaves me a bit cold.

I love my Seiko kinetics, because of their quirkiness, but all the same, they were a solution looking for a problem - requiring mechanicals for generation / charging (that's where one of mine has failed, although I'm determined to try and fix it myself, because if I take / send it anywhere for repair, I suspect they'll just change the movement), and if you've got one still with a capacitor in, that's on borrowed time, I've replaced the capacitor in two of mine, I've still got two to do. Even the lithium ion replacement cells have a limited service life, probably no better in the real world, than long life batteries. I think of them as folly in the wristwatch world - interesting, quirky, pointless, I'll buy, but robust? Not likely. A robust Seiko that would probably survive the apocalypse? That'll be a Seiko 5, then.

The mobile phone I've been using for the past 8 years is a Nokia 3310, which still raises eyebrows when I take it out of my pocket and attracts approving comments from people who are glad to see that smartphones haven't taken over the entire world.

Not that I don't admire old, simplistic mobile phones, but all the same, I do hope my N8 lasts a reasonable number of years, it's been useful in all sorts of situations, and in some diverse locations.