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What's wrong with the world.
Oct. 24th, 2008 09:02 amI've been spending some--okay, way too much--time on various photography websites and forums in the past month or two, since I got all excited with getting a new camera and all. Today there was a post on one of them, which I'll paraphrase as follows:
I'm a family man, and I'd really like to upgrade my camera to get better family snapshots. I currently have the next-to-latest dSLR model, along with professional-grade lenses covering a good range of focal lengths and a pro-quality flash unit as well. Should I get the next model in the same line of camera bodies (for $1,400), or move up to the full-frame line (for $3,000)?
And it just makes me scratch my head, or drop my jaw, or kick myself, or all of the above because I'm multi-talented like that. Here's a guy who already has equipment that I would almost literally kill for, and all he wants to do with it is take family snaps, and he's thinking because it isn't the latest and greatest he should upgrade. In later replies, he indicated that he's got no time to actually learn to use what he already has, because he works 2.5 jobs, so he thinks that just spending more money on better equipment will make up for the stuff he has no time to learn. But in my mind, of course, I'm screaming that he probably wouldn't have to work so much if he didn't think it was perfectly reasonable to spend many thousands of dollars on photographic equipment to capture family memories that he apparently doesn't even have time for. He could get (and learn to make the most of) a $300 point-and-shoot, and extend that same philosophy to the rest of his life, and he'd probably have no need to spend so much time working, you know? I just don't get that desire to work so hard to acquire so much stuff that you don't need and don't even have time to use because you're working so hard. So he's going to end up with a beautiful house full of stuff, and a wife and kids who barely remember what he looked like since he was at work all the time.
And THAT is why I spend as much time as possible with my family when I'm not at work. Of course, I should probably spend more time working while I AM at work. :)
I'm a family man, and I'd really like to upgrade my camera to get better family snapshots. I currently have the next-to-latest dSLR model, along with professional-grade lenses covering a good range of focal lengths and a pro-quality flash unit as well. Should I get the next model in the same line of camera bodies (for $1,400), or move up to the full-frame line (for $3,000)?
And it just makes me scratch my head, or drop my jaw, or kick myself, or all of the above because I'm multi-talented like that. Here's a guy who already has equipment that I would almost literally kill for, and all he wants to do with it is take family snaps, and he's thinking because it isn't the latest and greatest he should upgrade. In later replies, he indicated that he's got no time to actually learn to use what he already has, because he works 2.5 jobs, so he thinks that just spending more money on better equipment will make up for the stuff he has no time to learn. But in my mind, of course, I'm screaming that he probably wouldn't have to work so much if he didn't think it was perfectly reasonable to spend many thousands of dollars on photographic equipment to capture family memories that he apparently doesn't even have time for. He could get (and learn to make the most of) a $300 point-and-shoot, and extend that same philosophy to the rest of his life, and he'd probably have no need to spend so much time working, you know? I just don't get that desire to work so hard to acquire so much stuff that you don't need and don't even have time to use because you're working so hard. So he's going to end up with a beautiful house full of stuff, and a wife and kids who barely remember what he looked like since he was at work all the time.
And THAT is why I spend as much time as possible with my family when I'm not at work. Of course, I should probably spend more time working while I AM at work. :)
