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Photography. How it toys with us, makes utter fools of us, flogs, whips, and spanks us. Listen to the voices of the gearfags as they shitpost and retreat in the night. Whispered in empty rooms and lonely beds, the hunger of gear unattained, rushing through our fingers, unstoppable, fleeting, gone. And yet, when we touch a camera it burns us with its bright flame, it punishes and consumes. And yet we must have it. GAS rules us: uses, abuses, misuses. And yet, why do we always crawl back for more?
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I blame GAS for my Nikon 105 f2.5 purchase. I didn't need it I wasn't even looking for it, but I got one and don't regret it
Anonymous
>>3554436 >And yet, why do we always crawl back for more? Everybody says the gear doesn't make you a better photographer but deep down inside nobody believes it.
You are all convinced that next lens, that slightly newer body with half a dozen more megapixels and a gnats cocks worth of dynamic range is the key to unlocking that creative talent that is buried within. But it never does so before long you are looking for the next thing.
What you can't admit to yourselves is that all you really want is a device that will make you look good, that will make people say wow, without you having to actually do any work.
Anonymous
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>Didn't have a camera >Bought 1 camera with a compact zoom kit lens >year later I bought a fast prime and a decently fast telephoto lens
Anonymous
>>3554607 It's why people buy Leicas and Hasselblads. Or a TLR. It never cures the GAS but it halts the progression buying the ultimate hipster grail. Some people admit that's all they want, it's what the lomo you camera fad was about in a different way, a device that takes neat photos and removes responsibility from the user.
I think there are ultimately two causes of and cures for GAS. A holy grail meme for flexing for the ego status whores is one. A full system, the best of the best, is the other. Some people need to give themselves permission to fuck around and can't do so unless their basic needs are met. Whether this is a d850 and enough lenses for coverage or medium format film or a large format that just sits on a shelf is unique to the individual. There has to be a sense that needs are met to be fulfilled. Having that makes you happy to just go out and shoot with whatever, it's the Ferrari in the garage.
Anonymous
>>3554633 >It never cures the GAS but it halts the progression buying the ultimate hipster grail. It doesn't even do that, once they have one they want another. I need a back up for my back up camera, I need large format.
> >A full system, the best of the best No such thing. People spend heavily on Brand A then Brand B releases a new thing so they sell all their Brand A gear and buy Brand B gear
Anonymous
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>>3554436 I NEED MY X-PRO 3
Anonymous
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>>3554952 Buy an a7riv and be done with it.
