[JJ_SO]

Hoarding or shooting?

 



 

Maybe I keep the nice Sigmas, who knows if Nikon doesn't wake up within the next 10 years or so and bringa decent FF-mirrorless. Polite as they are, they want to leave Canon the first move, Between CaNikon, that is.  ^_^

[toni-a]

So, are you searching for a support group to heal yourself, or to find potential sellers?

Of course you understand it was a joke.

[thxbb12]

Unfortunately we are all suffering from serious and certainly incurable LBA (Lens Buying Addiction)!

My past efforts to overcome it have been unsuccessful so far, ugh...

 

I think these points illustrate particularly well our common condition (Klaus and the rest of the gang will especially appreciate point 6): Top 10 Signs You Suffer from LBA

 

If you want to find out whether you suffer from other conditions besides LBA, here is a good reference describing the various diseases encountered by fellow photographers: Diseases That Plague Photographers

 

[Rover]

So, are you searching for a support group to heal yourself, or to find potential sellers? 

Best quote I've read here in... a long time. 

[davidmanze]

   Speaking of which, I succumbed to another today, as per normal I managed to convince myself it was the last lens I absolutely had to have...

 

      My analyst is going to get paid late again!  

 

 

 LBA sufferers always get mixed extreme feelings when there's a knock at the door, they're never sure if it's the next lens being delivered or the bailiffs.    :o    :unsure:     !!

[JJ_SO]

My analyst is quite grateful when I bring him a slice of dry bread.

 

Once a week.

 

I think he appreciates the screek of the hatch in his cellar door. Okay, not actually "his". For that he need to have a key...

 

B)

 

Sometimes I even stick a lens through that hatch.

[davidmanze]

 Neat plan JoJu, keeping an "in house" analyst, in the cellar.

 

I'll try the same thing....but as I live on a boat, I'll put my analyst in the bilge.

 

 That should moisten his dried bread!

[JJ_SO]

And add a nice mushroom- or seaweed-taste to it  ^_^

[southerncross]

Well I have 6 lenses so definitely I guilty of hoarding. The fisheye SMC Pentax-DA 10-17mm F3.5-4.5 Fish-Eye ED [IF] is a very intellectually stimulating lens but quite difficult to master. Also the Pentax 100mm f/2.8 D FA WR is hands down the best lens I own but I don't use it very often, but when I do use it, I use it a lot.  

 

Now I would say a fast normal prime, a tele zoom lens and a ultra wide zoom is more than enough for me. And an external flash. The tripod is something overlooked in the 36+ megapixel era. We need them bad, even more than better lenses.  

[toni-a]

Talked today to a colleague psychiatrist and he found it great to gave good photo gear, it helps also as an evasion from work stress.

It's good to have a psychiatrist fund of photography ( he spends far more than me on his Leica gear)