Post your GAS goals 2013

1) Anything left needed to get printing in the darkroom again.
2) Potential services for a few cameras which haven't had any in decades.
3) Possibly a VC 50mm 1.1 or Medalist II 120 conversion.

I'm still trying to decide what to do with 35mms. I love the VC 35mm 1.4 but evidently shoot way too many photos with lines that highlight the distortion. At the same time, its hard giving up the speed and moving to something else. May pick up a Zeiss lens to see if I can run with it.

Beyond that, mostly selling.
 
Out with the old, in with the new.

Sell the pretty stuff and keep the users.

Expand the size of my negatives.
 
Finish Last Year's Plan

Finish Last Year's Plan

My goals are to finish my plan from last year of switching completely to M-mount rangefinder cameras and lenses. At this point, all that remains is to sell my Lumix GF1 camera and buy the following:
  • Leica M9 camera
  • Zeiss 21mm f/2.8 Biogon ZM lens
  • Voigtlander 21/25mm Viewfinder--from Camera Quest
  • Metz Mecablitz 45CL-4 handle mount flash (maybe)
After that, I will have three M-mount cameras (two film and one digital), and four great M-mount lenses. I'll still have my studio lighting equipment, but that works with any camera system. I hope to complete finally this plan which I started in May of 2012 by March of this year. Yes, then life will be wonderful.
 
My goal, I am sorry to say, is to sell several of my cameras and lenses that I can no longer afford to use. I cannot bring myself to advertise them!
 
Great question.
1) Sell off all (or at least most) of my old film gear which I'm just not using anymore.
2) Sell off all but the most basic of digital gear (body +2-3 lenses)
3) Use the funds to buy a user M9 (if such a thing exists) so I can use my old Leica glass. I really need something small to travel with.

3a) I'm almost tempted to delay the M9 / M240 to see what Sony does. If they release a full-frame EVIL camera it would effectively be the same as the 240, and I'm sure a lot less expensive.
 
Not much left to lust after. I am a user, not a collector. The only thing I haven't explored yet is large format. I know what I want to use it for (architecture + perspective correction), but no idea what would be good system.
 
If I buy anything in 2013 (it's doubtful), it would be the successor of the X100 . . . . if and only if, it's menus and buttons get improved, simplified.

If that doesn't happen, I will spend my cash on sex, drugs and rock&roll.
(sure, Dave :p )
 
GAS goals? My goal is to get AWAY from that GAS!!!
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I have the same wish... I have all the gear I require. My goal for 2013 is to focus on using the gear I do have for the reasons I bought it, and perhaps discovering a few more uses I hadn't thought of along the way
 
To buy:
Panasonic m4/3rds 12-35mm and 35-100mm f/2.8 zoom lenses.
Fuji XE-1 and 18-55mm zoom lens.

Yes, I am going small in 2013.
 
I'd like another Rapidgrip, as I'd really like to finally get one hacked to my M9 bodies.

I suppose I'll need several baseplates also...
 
Well if limiting it to 2013 only :rolleyes:

Planning to get shortly:

1. FT1 adapter for Nikon V1
2. 40.5mm Lee filter adapter for same
3. Remote release cable for D800
4. Standard Diopter -1 for Xpan (as soon can find a reasonably priced one for sale)

Thinking about seriously (though two might turn out to be mutual exclusive!):

1. Depending on what Leica's replacement offer for coffee stained M8s is once M9 stocks depleted: M-E (of if reviews really positive M 240).
2. Wide angle lens for D800

Wouldn't mind, but unlikely:

1. 30-110mm for V1
2. Nikon 70-200mm 2.8 VR1
3. 24mm or wide M lens
 
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