Canon Digital GearHead Forums :)

LOL I love hanging out here. I've learnt so much.

Does anyone else ever feel that it's really Canon Digital GearHead Forums and not Canon Digital Photography Forums ?

It's fun seeing the different models and IQ etc being discussed in minute detail. Some take it to almost religious levels.

The best thing about Canon Digital Camera's is they all take a good picture.

Don't sweat what you don't have. Everything we have today is going to be "obsolete" way wayyyyy before the glass ever is.

Photographer, GearHead or both? I'm unashamedly both. I love technology, but I've learnt that it costs a lot to be at the bleeding edge of it all the time.
I'm going to try to be happy with the gear I've got and try to improve my photography skills which sadly I must say are in no way worthy of the gear I already own, let alone the gear I lust over.

Is there a pill for the disease Canonitiss?

I am constantly distracted by shiny metal objects. My name is Birdfromboat and I am a gear lustaholic. This hobby is my midlife Harley Davidson. Camera gear is safer, easier to store, and almost as good at keeping its value, but showing up with a 5d and a 24-70 isn't going to attract the same kind of attention.
I am definitely a photographer/gearhead/​both, also unashamedly. I try to ask myself everyday- what did you learn about the art today?

birdfromboat wrote in post #8657394
I am constantly distracted by shiny metal objects. My name is Birdfromboat and I am a gear lustaholic. This hobby is my midlife Harley Davidson. Camera gear is safer, easier to store, and almost as good at keeping its value, but showing up with a 5d and a 24-70 isn't going to attract the same kind of attention.
I am definitely a photographer/gearhead/​both, also unashamedly. I try to ask myself everyday- what did you learn about the art today?

LOL

My wife reckons my hobby has been cheaper so far than a mid life crisis red convertable.........th​e so far part is correct

I love this site for info on gear associated with photography. I wish there were more of an emphasis on the photography part though. I don't frequent the share forums too much because although there is a lot of good art, I don't see too much critique - if anything, the photographers get pissy when you say something to the contrary. Although my critiques in my art classes weren't too productive, we did spent more time talking about the intent and composition of the picture instead of what was taken; unlike here where, at times, people are more interested in using their gear than the picture part.

I can take pictures with it?

Why hasn't anyone ever told me of such a thing!?

Depth wrote in post #8658259
I can take pictures with it?

Why hasn't anyone ever told me of such a thing!?

Sshhhhh OMG man.....don't let THAT secret out !!!!

You have a lot of gear. I went through your post history and all I could find in the scores of threads you've made was a picture of some pond weed and a shot of a pelican.

It shouldn't, and I wish it didn't, but it does annoy me. You have every right to spend your money the way you want, that is your free and undeniable right, but I just can't help letting it irritate me.

I just get the feeling that people with as much gear as you don't want to be photographers, they want to look like photographers. Like, your website is literally just a gear list. You registered a domain name and purchased hosting just to have a gear list? That's nothing more than an out-and-out boast. When you spend that much time letting people know what gear you have, I question your motives, and wonder if it's as important that everyone knows you own as it is actually owning it.

Whatever makes you happy, but it was only in may you were asking how to put a border around your images, yet you own over $2000 worth of digital editing software. Why buy it if you don't know how to use it?

As someone who lives and breathes photography, someone who scours the web looking for the best possible pictures and then saving them to open in photoshop to look at the colour profiles, exif data, drawing arrows to work out light sources and figure out processing techniques to improve my own photographic ability with what limited equipment I have, immitators like you just annoy me.

Like I say, you shouldn't, but you do. I should be better than that, but I'm not.

You even made an IDENTICAL thread to this less than three months ago.

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=704950

fly my pretties wrote in post #8658548
You have a lot of gear. I went through your post history and all I could find in the scores of threads you've made was a picture of some pond weed and a shot of a pelican.

It shouldn't, and I wish it didn't, but it does annoy me. You have every right to spend your money the way you want, that is your free and undeniable right, but I just can't help letting it irritate me.

I just get the feeling that people with as much gear as you don't want to be photographers, they want to look like photographers. Like, your website is literally just a gear list. You registered a domain name and purchased hosting just to have a gear list? That's nothing more than an out-and-out boast. When you spend that much time letting people know what gear you have, I question your motives, and wonder if it's as important that everyone knows you own as it is actually owning it.

Whatever makes you happy, but it was only in may you were asking how to put a border around your images, yet you own over $2000 worth of digital editing software. Why buy it if you don't know how to use it?

As someone who lives and breathes photography, someone who scours the web looking for the best possible pictures and then saving them to open in photoshop to look at the colour profiles, exif data, drawing arrows to work out light sources and figure out processing techniques to improve my own photographic ability with what limited equipment I have, immitators like you just annoy me.

Like I say, you shouldn't, but you do. I should be better than that, but I'm not.

You even made an IDENTICAL thread to this less than three months ago.

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=704950

Interesting post. I like your honesty, it's very refreshing.

I hope you also appreciate mine. I have never called myself anything but an amateur photographer and pointed out often my own lack of skills. I make no pretension to being anything more than a clumsy oaf stumbling along and learning this craft.....and LOVING every second of it.

I'm 47 years of age, I've worked hard and my family are very comfortable. I have the disposable income to own some "toys" and yes they can be top shelf. Am I going deprive myself of these luxuries and the pleasure of buying them, owning them and getting used to them affords me? No way in the world!

Thats the only comment that I suppose bugs me enough to respond to singulary. I'm not an immitator. I have worked and raised a family, that family are now grown and my wife and myself have the free time to devote to hobbies. Time that neither of us had before.

I had film SLRs in the '70s and my own darkroom. Digital is a whole new learning experience for me. It's my journey, not yours.

You shouldn't be so quick to be critical of people.

Anyway, again, thanks for your honesty.

Cheers

Wow... a website that is just a gear list!

i thought I was bad with my gear obsession, but I make sure I don't start collecting lenses just for the hell of it. I realize that the 24-70 f/2.8 and 24-105 f/4L both have their advantages and disadvantages over one another, but you also own a 17-85? why??? I would never have more then one unless one was for FF and the other EF-S. (incase you are wondering I'm gonna sell my 18-55 once I get a 17-55 IS).

Yeah, a 5DmkII and a 50D are just plain mediocre, I don't know how I can be happy with my crappy old 30D. At first I thought this was just another "G.A.S." thread but the more I look at it the more I am getting annoyed too.

DStanic wrote in post #8658631
Wow... a website that is just a gear list!

Yep and something that I constructed by myself. The first time I have done anything along the lines of a webpage. It may not be a big milestone for others, but it was for me. I learnt a lot from doing that. From purchasing and setting up the domain and from using Dreamweaver.

It's a start, it's not the end. Hopefully it will continue to grow and be added to.

And the best thing about it.......I'm proud of it!......and no one else has to be

DStanic wrote in post #8658631
but you also own a 17-85? why???

Good question.

Because when one of my sons says "Dad can I borrow a camera and a lens" I can happily give them the 50D and the 17-85mm

They're happy and I'm happy

Those of you that get irritated because someone else owns a bunch of gear really need to think before you post - and perhaps examine your own perspectives.

POTN, as a community, has always been proud of our friendly and welcoming attitude. Heck, we even let the Noink folks hang out here. If someone's gear list irritates you, then that's your problem, not that of the community at large. There's no reason to belittle anyone because they choose to own and can afford a significant amount of gear.

Now, if there is something productive to add to the thread, that's fine, but let's avoid the snarky remarks.

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Honestly guys, a gear thread for the purpose of discussing gear threads seems kind of counterproductive.

It's second only to heated discussions over bodies/lenses that aren't even available to the public but everyone "knows" their opinion is the God's Honest Truth.

And you know what they say about opinions...

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #8659858
And you know what they say about opinions...

Everybodys got one