>>4305338>>4305339It’s my profession yes, but also my hobby. Just an all consuming passion.
Yeah it’s many many lower priced items over the years. Buy, sell, trade up, trade down. One year my apartment got robbed, some cash of my girlfriend’s was taken, but I had my equipment insured so I claimed it (even though it had been on the trip I was away on while getting burgled), and was paranoid about keeping it all, so I sold the lot and bought new kit.
Favorite gear of all time? My D700 was a trooper. Put about 600-700k frames on it over 10ish years, even replaced the shutter both times it failed. Eventually gave it up because the files were just too small and I wanted a backup card slot. Ricoh GR, every incarnation has been great. Lens wise I’ve had so many favorites. The Nikon 50mm f/1.2 AI-S is great, I’ve had two of them. First one was burned in a fire. The Voigtlander 40 f/2 ultron is a supremely nice feeling lens, small, produces great results, I used it throughout Asia and loved the results. I use lots of different focal lengths but gun to my head, I could probably downsize to just a 28 and 50 and be totally content.
I’d say my current kit is my favorite ever, 2 Z9s, the 14-30, 50 1.2 GM, 24-70 2.8, 70-200 2.8 and a 2X teleconverter. It all fits in one case, gives me everything from ultrawide to supertele, I can even fit a MBP and two speedlights and a variety of filters. Feels like a very versatile powerful package.
