Do you name your photography equipment?

[Ehcalum]

70-200 - workhorse


300 f4 - BFL


400 2.8 (when renting from cps) the canon or the bazooka


50 1.8 - the quickie


17-40- no name


monopod - stickie/spectator beating stick/lightning rod/ultra-poinkinator 3000

[MrGreenBug]

Very interesting thread and I never have thought of naming my gear.. but if I were to interpret the question as labelling my gear.. I still never have thought of doing it.. []

[alexniedra]

I agree totally. I think that would only be appropriate if for the f/2.8.

Agreed. That should only be allowed with the 300 f/2.8L IS USM.

[HiFiGuy1]

That's what I was thinking, too. The 2.8 is a hoss.

[btaylor]

Mine are called:


1. Couldn't afford you in the first place


2. Couldn't really afford you


3. Definately couldn't afford you


4. Could afford you if I didn't have 1,2 and 3 but bought you anyway


5. Wow you broke the bank

[RDDave]

My 100-400 is known as the "M5" Even the guys at work that aren't into cameras know it as the M5.





The name comes from a scene in an 80's movie called "The Party Animal". Watch the movie and you'll see why. [:P]





Dave

[Colin]

I named my three 2.8 zooms the Neapolitans;70-200ISVanilla, 16-35II Strawberry and the 24-70 Chocolate.
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That's a good idea.


I named my compound bows Emmy Lou and Esmerelda. The newest one hasn't chosen a name yet. Neither have the long bow or the recurve.


Never even thought about it for camera equipment. Makes sense, ina way. They've definitely got personality. Something to consider, certainly.


I do call out names, sometimes, when I'm trying to take a picture of something that isn't cooperative, but it's not usually directed at the camera

[JJphoto]

sometimes, you really need a nickname for your equipment especially talk to somebody who doesn't know photograph that much. if you tell those people I'm going to use my 300mm 2.8 today, they will ask you where is your " big canon"?, ok never mind, I think "big canon" is the very common nickname for those big white lenses, and once a while, my coworkers like to ask me: how is your "4000 dollar lens"? so that is the another nickname for my 300mm and honestly, I felt good every times they mentioned that even I knew they were just teasing me because they thought I was crazy to spent a lot of money just on a lens!

[crosbyharbison]

Do I name my equipment? no. but I do put koala's on them

[Keith B]

Do I name my equipment? no. but I do put koala's on them

Better than the hornychihuahua.