History has a intersting way of showing what really was important. What I
try to do is visualize what a particular purchase will look like 10, 20+
years down the line. Will this technology/methodology stand the test of time
or will it be viewed as an unfortunate diversion?
On a more granular level, when buying camera equipment I like to visualize
it one or two years from now. Will I still like it as much then as I think I
will now? Fortunately, this line of thinking has prevented me from making
some pretty foolish mistakes.
In retrospec, I'm not as excited about the OM-2S as I was in 1986, but the
OM-4T and OM-3Ti are as exciting to me as the day they arrived at the front
door. E-1? No. L1? There are days.
Those who say "it's just a tool" just doesn't get it. My computer at work is
"just a tool", my shoes are "just shoes". But I think this is the mindset
difference between a "laborer" and a "craftsman". The laborer just uses
tools. The craftsman becomes one with his tools.
AG
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Bill Pearce <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> When we look back 20 to 50 years from now, I suspect that the late
> twentieth
> century will be viewed as the time of great lenses. Today, only Leica
> produces great lenses, everyone else relies on software to fix things that
> lens designers previously fixed. Not a fine day for photography, these
> days.
>
>
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