how to combat gear lust

Les Berkley said:

TAKE PICTURES! (The short answer.)

If you are actually spending beyond your means, get help. A simple self-help exercise is to trawl this site, and find posts like, "You need PRO glass!" or "The Eye-Q on the Canikon 700D Mk LX is totally crap!" Then look at the posters' profiles, where you will see one of three things: no images at all; a bunch of 'test' shots; an endless string of banal snapshots of their cat/gf/whatever.

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While I agree with the gear lust stuff you mention, your comment about what images are in our profile, challenges or galleries is bogus.

Not all of us choose to store our images here at DPR as many of us have our own web space to store our images.

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J. D.
Colorado

• "If your insurance company tells you that you don't need a lawyer . . . hire a lawyer!"

What? Control our wasteful, destructive, brainwashed materialistic greed and watch capitalism crumble? In my dreams

MusicDoctorDJ said:

Not all of us choose to store our images here at DPR as many of us have our own web space to store our images.

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Yes. That's why there is a place in the profile to list website/blog addresses. I always look for that as well as DPR galleries.
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Lot's of people with expensive gear there posting shockingly sub-par images.

Good light, interesting subject matter, creativity and a decent command of photographic knowledge is what makes truly good photographs.

Type of camera almost doesn't matter.

Thank god I learned early on that more expensive equipment doesn't make my pics much better. I'm actually happy with the D5000 and 35 I use now. I think the trick is too deflect the spending into something more "important" or worthwhile. For me its travel

smallcams said:

Lot's of people with expensive gear there posting shockingly sub-par images.

Good light, interesting subject matter, creativity and a decent command of photographic knowledge is what makes truly good photographs.

Type of camera almost doesn't matter.

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My neighbor is an serious gardener. He's got a fabulous backyard and I get to partake in his bounty often.

He also makes pictures. He routinely makes beautiful wild flower and vegetable photographs using various lighting setups and schemes. He also takes various pictures to document his tools, flower beds, and growing process. He makes only 4x6 and 9x6 prints keeps them all in scrap books. He uses an old 35mm film camera w/ 50mm lens. He takes pictures because he wants to document his love of gardening and it REALLY shows. The guy's scrapbooks are utterly amazing. Jaw-dropping, really.

Any way, as I said, this guy is a gardener, NOT a photographer.

happypoppeye said:

I think the trick is too deflect the spending into something more "important" or worthwhile. For me its travel

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Les Berkley said:

Les Berkley said:

MusicDoctorDJ wrote:

Not all of us choose to store our images here at DPR as many of us have our own web space to store our images.

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Yes. That's why there is a place in the profile to list website/blog addresses. I always look for that as well as DPR galleries.

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Well . . . who says that it is a requirement for anyone who is or has been a real photographer to run a website or a blog?

Or to post them here at DPR?

That is kind of like saying that real photographers only shoot with Nikon cameras . . . and anyone who shoots with any other brand can't be taken seriously!

Like I said . . . many of us choose to link to our photos instead of showing them on a website or storing them here in the forums, galleries, or on Flickr.

I think it is funny how so many around here try to pass themselves off as photographers with websites and blogs when they are not working photographers at all.

But it sure makes them look more legit than the real deals . . . doesn't it? :|

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J. D.
Colorado

• "If your insurance company tells you that you don't need a lawyer . . . hire a lawyer!"

MusicDoctorDJ said:

Les Berkley said:

MusicDoctorDJ said:

MusicDoctorDJ wrote:

Not all of us choose to store our images here at DPR as many of us have our own web space to store our images.

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Yes. That's why there is a place in the profile to list website/blog addresses. I always look for that as well as DPR galleries.

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Well . . . who says that it is a requirement for anyone who is or has been a real photographer to run a website or a blog?

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Huh! What's a real photographer? Or, more to the point, how do you get to be an UN-real photographer? ;-) ;-)

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MusicDoctorDJ said:

I think it is funny how so many around here try to pass themselves off as photographers with websites and blogs when they are not working photographers at all.

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Ahhh... "Working"... that's it, is it? Well, I'm not working anymore. That's why I have time to come down to the playground. ;-)
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Regards,
Baz

"Ahh... But the thing is, they were not just ORDINARY time travellers!"

Barrie Davis said:

Me? I'm at official retirement age, but am still waiting for common sense to cut in... (should happen any day now.)
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Baz

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Isn't that the truth.

Like you I'm at the age where common sense should be second nature but when it comes to wanting photographic equipment common sense doesn't enter the equation.

What I do to fight this affliction is I never buy on impulse. therefore I stay away from E-Bay and the like.

It takes weeks for me to make a purchase and during that time I'm constantly driving myself crazy with research.

It seems to work, I end up talking myself (figuratively of course) out of many purchases and those I do make I find I actually use.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side of the fence, in fact it's almost always the same color as your side of the fence.

Easy !

whenever you get the gear- itch automatically transfer the money to my a/c.Send all the cameras you have to my adress.Come and live with me for a few weeks -I will turn you into Shylock.

Gajanan
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student4ever

get the lytro camera. that will save on lens gear lust anyway. r

argh69 said:

i need a camera and lenses that won't make me a better photographer. instead of participating in the photo challenges of this website i instead surf the nikon store and ebay and other camera shops for their inventory every single day.

i made a purchase through ebay for a D3s and was very lucky to have the seller agree to cancel the transaction when i got buyers remorse.

what

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hell

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going

on?!

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