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How to know when you are in trouble with photo (or any other type) of gear

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Ellis Vener:
It's that moment when you realize you are actively shopping for accessories for your accessories.

Iluvmycam:

--- Quote from: Ellis Vener on February 12, 2015, 09:17:29 am ---It's that moment when you realize you are actively shopping for accessories for your accessories.

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There hopefully comes a point when you realize you got enough gear to produce and your gear is not what is holding you back. If you can't produce great work with lots of good gear one must accept the problem lies within themselves and is not gear related.

The only things I'd like to see come to market are:

An affordable Japanese Leica knockoff, ($2500)

An affordable 6mp FF back for the Hassy ($2500)

An M43 with a shutter speed dial / simple controls

A 'smallish' Fuji X super wide lens in 8mm, 9mm or 10mm with good manual controls.

A Fuji X circle fisheye with good manual controls.

Now, I have an excuse for wanting great manual control lenses and cams. I don't just have a bug in my head and lust for manual controls. I do lots of candid night shooting. The gear they have nowadays, designed by camera fondling engineers and built for camera fondling enthusiasts, is a pain to use in the conditions I shoot in. You have to fight it at every step.


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All shot with Fuji X-E1, all candids...but I shot the Fuji as a Leica and not as a Fuji or I would not get anything.

Now, if none of my want list ever come to pass, I got enough gear to produce as is. The wants would just make life easier to produce.

It is a happy day for the photog when they can leave gear acquisition behind and only worry about what to shoot next...instead of what to buy next. But, our world requires constant consumption. So the camera companies need to keep designing to keep the engineers employed and they need the camera fondlers to keep buying to keep the cam companies in biz. It is an odd relationship, cause the more we buy and consume the less time we have to push the button and produce.

NancyP:
That describes me to a T - the search for The Perfect Bag(s) for photo, for photo plus winter day hike (space for "10 essentials" including bivy bag, stove, fuel, ramen/cocoa/teabags), for camping with space for photo.  :D

telyt:
I knew I was in trouble when I had more stuff than I was willing to hike with and due to security concerns was unwilling to leave any stuff in the car.  When the epiphany struck I said "Screw the stuff, I'm going hiking."

hsteeves:
Having way too much stuff to justifiably carry … yup.

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