I no longer feel bad about GAS...
Aug 30, 2020 09:24:45 #
waynetgreen
Loc: Florida
CHG_CANON wrote:
If you don't have a willingness to spend time in learning and practice, there's always the option of buying new equipment.
Same with golf....lol.
Aug 30, 2020 09:27:07 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
You wish. More likely they will simply take it to Goodwill or sell it at their next yard sale for 1/10 its worth 😁
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Not me Linda, Photography is one of several hobbies of mine that my youngest son pursues also. And, he uses the same brands of cameras (probably not accidental). I will say that although we’ve worked in the darkroom together, i’m guessing he’ll give all that equipment away (he’s a LR/PS maven).
Aug 30, 2020 09:50:01 #
As with books, there are buyers and they share the world with readers.
Aug 30, 2020 10:41:50 #
Fotoartist wrote:
Collecting and shooting.
And sometimes they go together. That’s the joy of a hobby. Collecting, shooting, displaying. Nothing wrong with GAS as long as kept within family budget and affordable.
Aug 30, 2020 10:51:34 #
johnec wrote:
I’ve come to the conclusion that buying photography gear and using it are separate hobbies.
in photography , there are "snap" decisions and then there is "taking your best shot"
Aug 30, 2020 10:53:52 #
larryepage
Loc: North Texas area
johnec wrote:
I’ve come to the conclusion that buying photography gear and using it are separate hobbies.
Thank you for saying this out loud. And it is not confined to hobbyists. I know professional railroaders who enjoy collecting vintage paper items and artifacts ("ephemera"). I know two-way radio professionals who collect radio equipment. Most focus on a particular manufacturer. I had interests that extended well beyond my official responsibilities at each of the places where I have workedd.
I really like digital cameras and lenses. I like the notion of a functional, self-contained system of wonderful design that performs a useful function for me. And I like finding ways to make it function at or beyond the limits of its intended design. And I like the things that my newer cameras can do that there is not a way in the world that my older ones can do...the images I can capture now that I could never have captured before.
So yes...it is a separate but tightly related interest (and hobby). And it irritates me at least a little when folks choose to take me to task for either (or any) of my hobbies.
Aug 30, 2020 11:07:42 #
Pardon my ignorance, but what means "GAS" in the photographic sense of the word?
I know GAS as:
o Flatulence
o Runs my car
o Heats my house
Etc, etc, etc.
I know GAS as:
o Flatulence
o Runs my car
o Heats my house
Etc, etc, etc.
Aug 30, 2020 11:07:57 #
Interesting. Just yesterday, I procured my first digital camera 😬
Aug 30, 2020 11:13:23 #
IDguy
Loc: Idaho
bobbyjohn wrote:
Pardon my ignorance, but what means "GAS" in the photographic sense of the word?
I know GAS as:
o Flatulence
o Runs my car
o Heats my house
Etc, etc, etc.
I know GAS as:
o Flatulence
o Runs my car
o Heats my house
Etc, etc, etc.
Gear Acquisition Syndrome
Welcome to the Hog! You must be new.
It is a disease affecting photographers. It is incurable but temporary symptomatic relief is possible by buying some new photographic equipment.
Aug 30, 2020 11:13:40 #
bobbyjohn wrote:
Pardon my ignorance, but what means "GAS" in the photographic sense of the word?
I know GAS as:
o Flatulence
o Runs my car
o Heats my house
Etc, etc, etc.
I know GAS as:
o Flatulence
o Runs my car
o Heats my house
Etc, etc, etc.
Gear Acquisition Syndrome
Aug 30, 2020 12:21:19 #
BebuLamar wrote:
You didn't know that until now? But still GAS is bad.
Thererfore: GAS in motion is good!
Aug 30, 2020 12:30:18 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
Every successful photographer is driven by an inner voice telling them everyone else has a better camera.
That is the result of something invented a long time ago called: Marketing.
It affects us all and not just in photographic equipment.
Even when we think we are in control we are not. The American Marketing will get us and I love it.
Aug 30, 2020 12:31:37 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
Every successful photographer is driven by an inner voice telling them everyone else has a better camera.
I think it's rather the reverse. In my opinion it is the "unsuccessful" photographer that thinks everyone else has a better camera with a full frame sensor.
It's a good excuse though.
Aug 30, 2020 12:32:38 #
FotoHog wrote:
I think it's rather the reverse. In my opinion it is the "unsuccessful" photographer that thinks everyone else has a better camera with a full frame sensor.
👍
Aug 30, 2020 12:45:13 #
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