How to cure GAS

[Stephen.s1]

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Feeling my semi-annual GAS attack, I thought I'd trade in my (barely used, no signs of wear or tear) M10P, M10m and a Q2 Reporter for a shiny new M11m.  

My response from two commercial buyers left me needing to add 3 thou to those cameras.

Methinks I'll keep those black boxes and simply (but not cheaply) buy a new M11 m.  

A sure cure for GAS.

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[Al Brown]

I can barely handle two digital M bodies, they absolutely must have the same battery (they do) and be from the same series. It is good to have one body for each lens used (never more than 2 at the same time though). I do not understand the philosophy of owning 3 or more digital bodies without a valid reason (you only need one extra body for backup). Valid reason *can* include special uses like CCD fetish (M9) or masochism (M8).

[Jeff S]

40 minutes ago, Stephen.s1 said:

My response from two commercial buyers left me needing to add 3 thou to those cameras.

 

Including Leica Miami (80% FMV)?  For a brief period earlier this year, that became 90%. 
 

Of course buying a new camera, especially when you already have several great ones, is GAS.

Edited Monday at 05:56 PM by Jeff S

[otto.f]

41 minutes ago, Stephen.s1 said:

barely used, 

If this counts for all the three camera’s you want to trade in, I wonder why you want a new camera.

 

About the concept GAS BTW: I wonder what we LUF members share under GAS: the dreaming of a new camera or lens or only the actual buying of stuff. If you just dream you’re considered healthy?

[JNK100]

A good way to avoid GAS is to buy the camera and lens you really want but maybe are a push financially.

In the long -term this will save money as you should not need to change it for a long time.

This is working for me so far...

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[pgh]

34 minutes ago, JNK100 said:

A good way to avoid GAS is to buy the camera and lens you really want but maybe are a push financially.

In the long -term this will save money as you should not need to change it for a long time.

This is working for me so far...

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No, in the end this usually won’t help, it will just cost you more. You could have a Phase One and still want an M11 or whatever. You could have an M11 and still want an M11D.

The cure is to use your gear, focus on your photos and stay away from the places that make you think the problem with your photography is your gear. 

It’s not, at least not with any of the stuff in question. The best photographers have always had gear limitations and that didn’t stop them, often it helped. 

The pictures in the image threads here have on average never gotten any better than when I first joined this forum 15 years ago. Not even a little bit better - not on average. The cameras are better, but the photographs, no (sorry).

Maybe the prints of these pictures are sharper and hold up to more enlargement, but that really doesn’t matter with mediocre photos anyways. 

The time to get new gear is when you have a very particular vision and your current equipment is limiting it in some specific and identifiable way - and you can be certain the execution isn’t the problem (it usually is). At that point you can hit the market with a specific problem you need to solve, and you can look to see what tool may solve that problem. And when you do this, the latest and greatest doesn’t matter. You just need to solve the problem, and if a 5 yr old used model solves that problem you can just get that. 

Edited Monday at 06:55 PM by pgh