So true.

In high school, I dated the daughter of a local heart surgeon. He had it made... posh house, new Corvette, beach house, mountain getaway... He thought he could throw money at stuff and make it better. So he bought a couple of Nikon F2s and a bag of six lenses.

After exposing a few rolls of film and getting back awful prints from the camera store, he quietly stuck the bag in the back of his front hall closet.

Some years later, he died. His daughter found the bag. It still had unopened film in it that had expired a year after he bought the camera... and never used it again.

Often, smart people will forget that it requires effort to attain knowledge and experience that make us who we are... The camera is just a tool. While some tools are better than others, knowing how to use them — and why —are the most important variables in the equation.