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you decide to buy into a new camera system…after several purchases and some time using your new gear you decide you like it and plan on keeping it for awhile…you look around and see that there are quite a few others that are also using this same system and you begin to feel like you are part of something bigger…you are pleased that a few other photographers who's work you admire and opinions you respect are also using this same gear.
then, it happens…some people start to sell their gear and use another, different system…you feel abondoned and start to question if you have made the right choice and begin to wonder if you should investigate this new system…

sound familiar?
have you gone through this yourself?
 
Nope, I buy and try what I like... what sticks, sticks because it is useful to me. I don't get attached and I use multiple brands. They all have a framing device and something that captures the image. That's what matters. Everything else is opinion.
 
I'm 43 and have been shooting silde film since I was 7. When everyone started going digital a decade ago I never had the temptation to follow. If you are doing something that excites you and you enjoy it, why jump on a different bandwagon?! I'm still shooting slide film and have never bought any digital photography equipment (not even a cell phone). So no, I do not feel abandoned. I feel empowered... being one of a small population of people left shooting only film, shooting slide film, never having shot digital. I'd say i'm lucky to be in this position.
 
Nope. I buy gear that I think I want/need. If my wants/needs change, then I change it, NOT because other people have abandoned the platform.
 
Before I buy bodies or lenses, I read and rely heavily on real-user reviews (like this forum, and few others). Not the "I just got ____ and I'm in love" reviews, but the "after the honeymoon is over" reviews.

After that, I don't care what others are doing, except out of mild curiosity. (Like that new Sigma camera they're talking about now.)
 
No, in fact a part of me maybe chooses gear because people usually don't use them...

It's fun to be different and expect different results :D
 
No. What works for me might not work for others and vice versa.

Joe, stick with what you have.
 
Not really, I didn't buy my current gear because other people thought it was good but because I like using it and it does what I want. I can certainly see why someone would do that though, if one happened to be starting out
 
I guess the answer is maybe. I have been influenced to try out a few different lenses and at least one camera by people on this forum. But in general once the purchase has been made my decisions are then made based on my own experiences rather than whether someone else moves on to a different system or not.

And to be completely honest, I don't exactly see this forum as being representative of the great herd stampeded into moving by the latest digital fad. I presently belong to at least one other forum where a lot of people sell of equipment bought a year ago for the latest new thing from the manufacturer.

To be completely honest it sometimes feels as if the manufacturer is actually more in control of the forum's attitudes then the members are.

:rolleyes: I suppose you should ignore that last statement. I must be imagining conspiracies again. I'm sure nothing like that would happen on the good, ole, trustworthy internet. :D
 
Sort of. I got really excited about the X system, loved the X100, but in the end realized I just loved my vintage lenses and RF focusing more. I don't keep up enough to know if people 'moved on' from Fuji, but I still suggest it for anyone looking for a compact digital.
 
No, I never felt abandoned, even when showing up at my local camera club as the only RF user among a couple of dozen DSLR people. I do feel a slight twinge when I read some of these "film is dead" threads, but then I see that Leica has just come out with a new meter-less, battery-less 35mm film camera and I figure they know something about the future of film...:)
 
sound familiar?
have you gone through this yourself?
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I can buy film equipment now because I can afford to. It's a combination of factors, one being how film equipment I usually set my eyes on is more reasonable to me now and another is my wife & I are empty nesters now and our grown children, we are fortunate, have successful careers and marriages.
 
kbg32 said:
No. What works for me might not work for others and vice versa.

Joe, stick with what you have.
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i'm not even thinking about moving on…the fuji 23/56 has me star struck!
if i could trade my 2 xe1s for an xe2 i might do that but moving to an xe2 is the biggest move i'd make. but the xe1 does what i need and i like 2 bodies so things are cool here.
 
I definitely started shooting Nikon SLRs because a photographer I respected shot it--my uncle. It helped that I could borrow lenses as needed, of course. Now, however, most of the photographers I work with and many of the PJ's I aspire to shoot like shoot Canon. Fine by me, it won't make me switch. I know my Nikons' controls like the back of my hand.
 
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