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I'm still stuck on the OP saying he got a F2 and roughly 3 pieces of glass for 3 paychecks in 73.. THAT, my friend was a WELL PAYING JOB.
My timeline and glass was almost neck and neck (short about 6 years)and even in university with a job, I was eating mac & cheese 7 days a week, barely being able to afford chem to finish work in a basement of Toronto where the subway ran below by basement and would wake me every 8 minutes...
As far as good ol'days.. it's a 'on the fence' thing for me.. I do miss the simplicity of taking kit (whether high end or not) and being able to produce images in line with just about all the others, in large part. It was like now..a 3 step process, but had a more simplistic feel to it.
Now, everyone with a DSLR is an expert, people are pixel peeping and comparing minutia... blogs filled with disinformation, and equipment is coming out of the R & D departments like there is a race on.. And I guess in bottom line numbers, there is for each company.
So I do like the innovation, I do like the ability to change work and process in home with much more creativity, but do not like the 'latest & greatest' everyone asking and changing kit items so often.. There is WAY too much emphasis placed on what people are buying and looking at, and not just making images.. That part is sad.
This entire forum is a really great place..as it offers all of the above, and so much more. It's a more mature place (most times) and I've picked up one hell of at lot of pieces of information here, than any other place.
So, I miss the days of old... but I enjoy the time spent here in the now..
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