G.A.S. (Gear Acquisition Syndrome)

I heard about this syndrome some time ago. My son told me that a lot of musicians suffer from that disease. I must say that this disease could be found anywhere also in photography. Two or three times a year new equipment is thrown into the market and people really think they could make better images with new gear. Also a lot of the new camera features are weird too like Fuji’s pet recognition system (http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/pet/index.html). Have to look if our cat could be photographed or not …

Step back and think about G.A.S for a while. Do you think you are getting a better driver if you buy a new car? Will you run faster with a new sweatshirt? Think about the famous Anselm Adams and his beautiful landscape photos. Do you think he stayed at home to wait for a new camera model, so he could make better images? For sure, he did not. He did over 40000 images in his whole life so he had no time to “wait”. 

Summary: only those image are good images that you take, whatever camera you use. New or Old.

Below you will find an image that I shot some years ago with a really bad (from todays technical standpoint) Olympus UZ camera. Enjoy!