Can anyone confidently say they've bought their last camera?

[dogberryjr]

I have a D700 that I love for action and low light shooting, and I thought I wouldn't be tempted by the D800, but I am.

When I got the M9, I told myself it would likely be my last Leica. While the price of the M9M disappoints me, I am more intrigued than I thought I'd be by the notion of B/W digital.

Can anyone say, with confidence, that they have assembled their perfect gear set? How does that feel?

 

[gavinlg]

Hell no...

 

[ruby.monkey]

Only via a Ouija board.

 

[ray*j*gun]

I wish I could say that!!!!

 

[jsrockit]

I don't think it is easy to say yet for digital users... we are still in its infancy most likely.

 

[seakayaker1]

No.

I believe the door will be open until the end. Curiosity and the adventure of doing something different, experimentation, or to experience something from the past, lots of reasons to have an open mind about another camera.

😉

 

[Ezzie]

No. Not bl...y likely. Hope to have another 30 years to go. By which time I'll be on my third retinal cerebral camera!

 

[Sparrow]

I think Frank may give it a go ... saying it confidently that is

 

[damien.murphy]

I don't think it is easy to say yet for digital users... we are still in its infancy most likely.

Was my first thought too, and not sure electronics on a scale seen in dslr's will prove to be as durable, long term. Just my own suspicion, am sure there are exceptions and cases where this has proved untrue. Even with film, camera development may have levelled off, but film development didn't and I see sensor development (like computer technology) always evolving.

In any case, different cameras enable different potential approaches to shooting, and given we are always evolving as photographers, imagine there is always change in our future with regard to cameras. After all, even with past masters, is there any that stuck to one camera for their career, when necessity/ lack of means were factored out.

 

[hipsterdufus]

I sincerely doubt it. Too much fun trying out new ones. I know others will disagree, but it entertains me.

I'll never get rid of my M3, though...

 

[Steve Bellayr]

Since I use film I am not certain that it will be around longer than I care to use it. What keeps me from my last camera which certainly will be digital is the exorbitant price of entry.

 

[Jamie123]

I have bought my last camera. And unless I turn to a life of crime or somebody is generous enough to give me one for free, I will also buy my next one 😀

 

[menthel]

Nope! If canon replace the 7D with something that has better high ISO noise characteristics I will be very much buying one! As for film I am very happy with my M6, Rolleiflex T and Trip35, so nothing is forseen on that front.

 

[kehng]

Is this a trick question?

 

[damien.murphy]

Thinking again, I guess the bigger issues with the tools we choose, are our comfort with them, the functionalities of our cameras to our ways of working, and the refinement and awareness of our own artistic processes. Comfort might lead someone to stick with one camera, but the latter two are moving targets, be it the camera industry innovating, or our own evolution as photographers.

Of course, I know this is all long term stuff, and perhaps the spirit of the original post, was in finding a camera one would be happy with for a few years 🙂

 

[Speedfreak]

Can anyone say, with confidence, that they have assembled their perfect gear set?

I´tell you when I reach 90. Or 95.

 

[damien.murphy]

I'll never get rid of my M3, though...

After selling an assortment of cameras and lenses over the years, it seems selling my M3 is not something I could bring myself to do. Just looking through that viewfinder, reminds me all over again why it is my favourite camera to shoot with 🙂

 

[rover]

My rate of acquisition has slowed significantly.

Does that count?

 

[rbelyell]

i thought that having an x100 and the newest OMD i would be set for quite awhile. i was wrong. while i am happy with the OMD output with my rf lenses, i am not as happy as i should be, and i think its because of the inherent resoution issues with AA filters. while i personally feel the OMD is competitive with sony offerings, it is not competitive with fuji, m8 or even ricoh. there is a depth to the images these cameras deliver, a crispness throughout, that i dont see from my omd or even from cams with weak AA filters.

while i may not have purchased my last camera, i can confidently say that i have bought my last camera with an AA filter!
tony

 

[rover]

My rate of acquisition has slowed significantly.

Does that count?

Oh my, now that I think of it... no, it hasn't. Ignore my prior post.