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Buttons252 wrote:

Greetings Buttons52

I hear you. Buying gear for me is addictive and inspires me to get out there and take some pictures, good, bad or otherwise.

I'm looking for a intervention group for photographers who have trouble stop buying,

hahahaha, ..just kidding, but not a bad idea :))) I stopped buying.

I enjoy the hunt for new gear / deals more then the actual craft itself.

I did enjoy the hunt for new different gear and deals of coarse. Although in the past when I was a photojournalist I didn't care about gear just the image. The image was the most important.

Having owned about everything except micro 4/3s

I owned m4/3 it was great for what was, but not for me.

my interests currently lie in using legacy gear.

Yes

I really enjoy sigma foveons,

Yes, I own all the Foveons and still use them.

fujifilm S5 pro(ccd), Pentax K10d (ccd), maybe a sony a390 (ccd) to try out some old minotla 200mm f2.8 lenses.

CCD and Foveon sensors are the closest to film that you can get mainly the older sensors, but the new FP has the best digital IQ of any digital camera I've seen and other pro photographers say the same. I've toyed with the thought of buying a D200 and removing the AA filter, but a Fuji S5 pro is a good idea as the lenses (mainly the D lenses) can go both ways digital and film. I'm moving back to film as digital is getting boring.

I worked for Minolta back in the 1980's till 2002 and still have a few G lenses so if I were going to to buy a Minolta/Sony I'd buy a 7D it is a excellent 6 mp camera or the Minolta/Sony A700 as it had both a CCD and CMOS sensor. It was going to be one of Minolta's next cameras along with the A900 and A99 A77 all a Minolta design.

I use my A7iv for work,

Sorry I'm not a Sony fan after what Sony did to the employees after the purchased Minolta.

but i like the older stuff for personal use.

Ya, so do it. It just has a nicer look

Ive never shot film,

I use to shoot 1 -150 rolls a month as a working photojournalist.  CCD and of course foveon have a very different look, very close to film.

then the traditional cmos sensor stuff.

Very true.

Here's some Foveon work and some CCD in the Miscellaneous work album, mostly Olympus.

Good Luck

Roger J.