Marriage and photography

[The_Traveler]

There are remarkable and perhaps even informative parallels.

• We enter into both for the first time without really enough information and often make our choices based on nothing more than the ergonomics of the body.
• The initial expense is startling but the real killer is the routine maintenance and upgrades.
• Changing systems can be ruinously expensive and, after a honeymoon period, we often end up with just about the same functionality as before.
• Looking back at the total experience, in retrospect it is easy to see where we have made some grotesquely bad choices with the inevitable terrible results.
• Sometimes one can take some guilty pleasure that inexperienced people will ignore advice and make now the same stupid mistakes we have already made. Our scars might be deep and visible but at least they aren't fresh and painful. Schadenfreude is not a ski town in Germany

 

[Tiller]

I love how we focus only on the negatives here Lew How about both being about lifelong, loving relationship, learning more about the other as you go?

But maybe that's just my leftover Valentines Day self talking.

 

[Overread16 4]

Wait is this marriage - cameras or computers?

 

[CycleDog]

Ah, but as we settle in with a system, we learn as part of the aging process which buttons to push and which to avoid. We know what will bring about a happy outcome, and despite the number of newer, flashier models every year, we stick with what works best for us.


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[kathyt]

Let's see here.....I am divorced. I like to routinely upgrade, and I have to see how they fit in my hands first before I commit. So....yep that's about right.

 

[bentcountershaft]

Since Derrel has two systems does that make him Mormon or something?

 

[DarkShadow]

Well I am over $4,500 invested now not counting equipment I had before what's in my sig now. Nikon D7000,D90 and D3100 I had before.All this with in a year when I started last february 2013. My only regret was the D7000 for it's focus issues that never got resolved. I have No regrets on my decisions on my gear now or my marriage. We are joined at the hip.:heart: and it's still cheaper then a divorce.Awaiting the 7D mark II Body.

 

[Overread16 4]

For some reason this I think fits here

 

[terri34 6]

When you invest the time to learn how to use your equipment, often through some painful trial and error, eventually you find you can produce something wonderful without having to think about it.

 

[Derrel]

A fine piece of writing, Lew! I enjoyed it this morning.

 

[Stevepwns]

Wait is this marriage - cameras or computers?

Yes

 

[Stevepwns]

Let's see here.....I am divorced. I like to routinely upgrade, and I have to see how they fit in my hands first before I commit. So....yep that's about right.

Go ahead girl!!.........how you doin?

 

[table1349]

There are remarkable and perhaps even informative parallels.

• We enter into both for the first time without really enough information and often make our choices based on nothing more than the ergonomics of the body.
• The initial expense is startling but the real killer is the routine maintenance and upgrades.
• Changing systems can be ruinously expensive and, after a honeymoon period, we often end up with just about the same functionality as before.
• Looking back at the total experience, in retrospect it is easy to see where we have made some grotesquely bad choices with the inevitable terrible results.
• Sometimes one can take some guilty pleasure that inexperienced people will ignore advice and make now the same stupid mistakes we have already made. Our scars might be deep and visible but at least they aren't fresh and painful. Schadenfreude is not a ski town in Germany

Sounds to me like someone who has buyers remorse after not doing their homework first. :mrgreen:

 

[The_Traveler]

Let's see here.....I am divorced. I like to routinely upgrade, and I have to see how they fit in my hands first before I commit. So....yep that's about right.

I am encouraged that 'hands' is plural.

 

[The_Traveler]

There is a notice in local weekly paper about couple who were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary and the reporter emphasized that theirs was still a loving committed marriage.
Clearly this was news.
There was a picture, neither one was smiling broadly.