>>4532837All cameras are specialty tools. If I bought a specific camera for a trip or a job, why would I keep it around the house when it's overkill besides the trip, while it depreciates and my shekels slip away? Why would I risk losing thousands taking nicer money making gear hiking or to a crime-ridden area when shittier gear is more rugged and cheaper to replace, and there's no demand for the extra image quality?
It's just a camera. You're not meant to marry it. Use it, pass it on to someone else who has a more immediate need for it, and reclaim your precious shekels.
>Not getting shelf camerasThe shelf camera is the camera you'll always have even if you're not actively pursuing any projects or jobs, or if you're doing something that might result in the destruction or loss of the camera. It's a cheap, long lasting tool that is going to be good enough if you ever use a camera even if it might be more challenging or less than ideal, but if you have a shelf camera, you should know enough by now to circumvent its limitations. Basically the camera equivalent of having cheap shitty kitchen tools around even if you have nicer ones in the garage.
