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PostPosted: Mon Feb 03, 2025 5:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Most of my lenses I've bought cheap in the past years, there are only very few of them that cost me more , meantime the price of these oldies went up crazy, such that I've admitted before ,it shouldn't be right to be payed in many cases , unless for collection purposes . So I do accept this poor option and enjoy the results I'm getting,which is the most important thing anyone should get from his gear. Funny thing is I got to know a guy who's been shooting for the last 20 years and switching gear different formats and brands top lenses and never ever be happy with any of it, of course he lost lots of money in the way, but worse thing is that now he's tired of photography. I'm just an amateur, I guess professionals struggle to be on top of a difficult market nowadays, so they know better what do they need to get paid for.


PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hallo,

be sure that I in no way wanted to dump MF lenses (I really have many of them), but I am an engineer and what has proved in my life was that in photography it is an never ending story to try to optimize the equipment. There is no statistic available to me, but I think nearly 50% of the posts in photo forums treat themselves with the questions whether lens x is sharper, gives better image quality or nicer bokeh or better blabla then lens y. I for myself decided not to go with every new generation, but sometimes I am not ready to go with inconvenience if you no longer get some visible advantages.

BG


PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 11:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
kiddo wrote:
Funny thing is I got to know a guy who's been shooting for the last 20 years and switching gear different formats and brands top lenses and never ever be happy with any of it, of course he lost lots of money in the way, but worse thing is that now he's tired of photography.

That's really sad. One can take good (i. e. meaningful!) pictures with nearly every lens, but one cannot take any kind of picture with any lens. So for some purposes it's pretty useful to have good gear indeed.

kiddo wrote:
I'm just an amateur, I guess professionals struggle to be on top of a difficult market nowadays, so they know better what do they need to get paid for.

I pretty happily shoot large calendar images of highest quality with my 16 year old Sony A900. Most of my lenses are even older (but I always bought good ones , of course ...). Do I have newer gear? For sure. Do I need it for my kind of work? Not really.

S
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