Specs don’t matter but gear does! Journey on. Great vid 👍

Thank you for your thoughts. I found over time that thinking in terms of "use cases" helped me: What will I need the gear for? How often do I employ this use case? Are there overlaps regarding gear? Then again, I also found that two more factors became important for me in addition: Enjoyment using the gear and providing new learning experiences - again in terms of "how often" and "how sustainably". (Disclaimer: Without these elements I'd never have jumped into the Voigtlaender universe for Fuji - but it's worth it.) Impulse buys? Sleep over it.

I also have pretty bad GAS, and I have found that it expands (pun intended) my photography because it forces me to find some value in the money I just spent. Each new thing I buy, as long as it's not a cheap accessory has been immediately useless, followed by frustration, followed by a desire to return it, followed by the feeling that I have just bloated by kit (pun also), followed by a need to figure it out, followed by a new horizon I didn't even know about. I agree with you 100%, new gear can be a way to force growth, just like buying and reading a new book, or signing up for a class, you can utilize it and expand (again pun intended) your knowledge or squander it. If you permit, I'll add that there are somethings that need to be there to help that change, time and curiosity. If you have those 2 things, a new piece of gear might be the gateway that forced you to pass (pun here too) into the next level. I'm happy that you have a voice that stands apart from the others saying things like "You only need X" and "You can still take great photos with Y", that's true, if you have walked all the way down the journey before.

@photographybypetercharles9939

3 ай бұрын

We have a similar attitude in fly fishing where we say that an expensive fly rod catches more fish than a cheap one, simply because we'll fish it more to justify what we paid for it.

Well made and very good thoughts. I have been shooting, mainly non professional but have made a few bucks with my cameras. I am now just a serious hobbyist with way too much gear after 50 years. I have sold and traded many cameras and systems. Last year I went from a good Nikon DSLR system to a Canon R5 system. Gosh I feel like I am over my head when going out in the field taking landscape pictures. Yes I do all right but it is just too complicated. I am not into video and have stopped taking pictures of sporting events, portraits and the such. I do photograph some rodeos and pets. Landscapes seem to be what I enjoy. I have never held a Fuji camera but I am thinking of traveling to a camera store in Boulder, Co to check a few out. I just need a simple camera now days, not a perfect camera system. Gosh, changing camera systems is very expensive but in the long run if I feel better about using a camera system that fits my needs I think I am way better off.

@photographybypetercharles9939

2 ай бұрын

Yup, changing systems costs money - been there. In my film days I went through Pentax, Nikon, Minolta, Bronica, and Canon with some of these systems coexisting. These days I shoot Fujifilm and Sony, with Sony mostly dedicated to video. The nice thing about Fujifilm, we can go 100% DSLR style in a mirrorless camera or a traditional film style, both rangefinder and SLR. The X-E4 is a small, light and simple rangefinder style that would be a great, light camera when coupled with their excellent kit lens 18-55mm f2.8-4. The 40MP sensor (X-T5, X-H2 and down the road, X-Pro4) has great resolution for an APS-C sensor. Its resolving power is such that Fujifilm advises that a few of their older lenses lack the resolving power to fully utilize this sensor. Their lineup also includes a lot of great primes if you want to go that route. If I wanted to go all out on a landscape setup, it would be the X-T5 + 16-80mm f4 or a set of the equivalent primes.

G.A.S. can hit anybody and it can be good as long as you do not buy in blind anything new and your wallet can handle it. G.A.S. is good to keep the photo industry alive and that will will benefit us all, because then there are money to invent new and improved gear that benefits us all 😇

@photographybypetercharles9939

3 ай бұрын

G.A.S. is a double edged sword for the industry as first it leads to a bunch of sales, but that is then followed by lots of nearly new, barely used gear hitting the used market. The used market cannibalizes sales from the new market.

@cameraprepper7938

3 ай бұрын

@@photographybypetercharles9939 There will always come some new better gear and that is very G.A.S. works !