How do you display your sets?

[Kevin Kuehn]

This is one of my shelves-o'-crap. Well at least there's kinda a theme going on up there. I’m blessed with around 10,000 square feet of display area. The public seems to really enjoy looking at the old stuff, but it’s a challenge to keep things out of small arms reach. Yep, I also collect beds.

And no the radio’s have never been for sale. I'm still trying to figure out how to display largish TV's while keeping them out of harms way.

[vts1134]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn

Yep, I also collect beds.

I'm so confused.

[Kevin Kuehn]

That was a little bad humor, I don't really collect the beds. Not much room in our little house, so I have my radio's on display at my place of business.

[Phil Nelson]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn

This is one of my shelves-o'-crap.

That's a pretty nice display. Looks like some choice items up there, too.

Phil Nelson

[Eric H]

Until recently I didn't have a decent space to display anything, enter my Aunt and her Daughter (my Cousin).

We spent three days cleaning and organizing my house, threw away my old comfy chair that was thrashed, tossed out the Couch, took about 3-4000 VHS tapes to the Thrift Store, threw out old shelves, put up new shelves for the DVD's.

Now my living room is actually a place where I can relax and enjoy myself.
I can also display a couple dozen sets in there including most of my consoles.

First picture is a "Before" the rest are after.

I hate this "Lumix Digital Camera, there must be a way to get a decent picture out of it but it's beyond me.
My old Olympus was great but not supported in Win 7.

[Kevin Kuehn]

Originally Posted by Eric H

Now my living room is actually a place where I can relax and enjoy myself.
I can also display a couple dozen sets in there including most of my consoles.

Hey, in that first picture you had your place looking like a real man-cave.

Funny how a couple women can turn a guys life around. Very nice looking collection.

[earlyfilm]

Originally Posted by Eric H

I hate this "Lumix Digital Camera, there must be a way to get a decent picture out of it but it's beyond me.
My old Olympus was great but not supported in Win 7.

Sorry to go a bit off topic here, but you don't need to load your computer with very bloated camera software.

I assume that your Olympus has a plug that fits the USB slot.

On Win 7, right click [Start] and select "Open Windows Explorer"

Plug your camera's USB cord into the camera and then into any USB port on your computer.

When your Olympus powers up, it probably will ask you a question and at that point you select the [PC] option on the Olympus screen, at which point the camera screen will turn off.

(If your very old camera fails to power up, turn it on manually.)

You can then use Windows Explorer to probe your camera to find your pictures. Once located go back one folder and select that folder and then copy that folder to any place you want it on your Win 7 computer.

Always select, copy then paste, but never delete anything on your camera using your computer as this sometimes can mess up your camera's logic.

Note: It helps if you have "Display file extensions" turned on in your folder options, to quickly idenfify the jpg files, but it is not necessary.

Every picture that I've posted on this forum was shot with a circa 2002 Olympus using only native Win 7 functions!

As a matter of fact, Windows Explorer will work for almost all digital cameras with a USB connector on all versions of Windows computers back to Win ME and possibly even to Win 98.

James (Still stuck with an analog mind in a digital world)

[Chad Hauris]

I have never used any proprietary software with a digital camera. We have a relatively old Olympus camera at our repair shop which predates 2004 and we would always just take the memory card out and put in in a card reader and download the files. I do the same thing with my new digital camera.

As far as displaying equipment I try to create areas which may include TV's, phonographs, table radios, etc. plus lamps and chairs to sit down and watch/listen. I need to take some photos of my current setup but here is one from 1994.

[Steve D.]

{Quote} I hate this "Lumix Digital Camera, there must be a way to get a decent picture out of it but it's beyond me.
My old Olympus was great but not supported in Win 7.[/QUOTE]

Eric H. Nice job of reorganizing your display. I would suggest that you use photo shop or other computer photo enhancement program to improve your photos. Also, try and not have those bright, distracting source lights that seem so prominent in all your photos. I just used my photo program that is built into my Mac to brighten up & sharpen your photos. IMO it does help a bit.

-Steve D.

[maxm]

I have several of these Ikea floating shelves I got at an estate sale. The instructions claim a pretty low weight capacity rating, I think around 20 pounds. I attached them to studs instead of using anchors, so maybe they can hold more that way. I think one has more than 20 pounds of Trimline phones on it.

You can buy brackets to make your own, these claim they can support 50 pounds, but with an 8" deep shelf, too shallow to support TVs.

http://www.rockler.com/blind-shelf-supports