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flash wrote:
I shoot Leica at weddings and other work stuff because I want to shoot with gear i like. I'm under no illusion that my M, S or SL will take noticeably better images than someone with a Canon. They won't. It isn't a business decision either. I've gotten to a position when sometimes I can make, what is, a stupid business decision with no consequences. I worked fucking hard to afford my Leica's and I *want* to shoot with them. So I do. I have more cameras than most people have socks but I still always end up back where I want to be. Shooting my Leica's. Last weekend I took an SL and an S to shoot a wedding with my M and a 50 purely as a backup. So there's my bag, open as I reach to put a 50 on the SL, with the M in a pocket ready to go. "I'll just grab a quick one with the M 'cause it's quicker than changing"...... 200 shots later I'm having a ball. This isn't work anymore. I feel great. So are the photos.
I'm not recommending anyone go out and buy an M10. You won't make better images and you won't make more money.
Why are you not feeding the soul as well as your bank account?
Gordon...Show more →
This is pretty much completely the opposite of what I believe the requirements of a good business model is and what one should be looking at in that regard.
It's also one of, if not the best post's I have read in a very long time.
Well said mate. I am argumentative frequently to try and be proven wrong and have my eyes opened and to be blunt, Fk all people have ever done that. You have and really won my respect for what and the way you said it.
Don't be surprised if next week I am on my same old rant forgetting most of the valid points you have made here but also don't think I disagree with them. Sometimes I just have trouble remembering the good advise and wisdom I have been given.
I think your honesty is what really won me over. It seems to me that many people try to justify their unwarranted toys from all sorts of BS excuses and garbage but few ever admit the real reason they want them and that's to play or enjoy themselves. That's fine by me, what shits me to tears is people trying to insult my intelligence that they NEED them. Good on you for having the balls to say it like it is.
We all have our toys, I'm going to buy another Vintage engine tomorrow. Have a heap, I set them up as generators and play with them for no practical use other than I find peace and enjoyment with them. If people do the same with their cameras, I don't understand why they just don't have the balls to say so rather than make up crap about it being because they want to offer their clients the best or some other see through crap.
You comments are pretty much against everything I have believed and argued in the past but I can't tell you how good it feels to finally be basically be proven wrong and feel like I have learned and gained some knowledge in in that.
It's a craving I have had for a LONG time that's finally got a bit of satisfaction.
Well said and much respect to you Gordon.
Next time I'm in Melbourne dodging Physcos on Bourke street ( yeah, I was right bloody there, never been to Melbourne before and what happens the day I am on that very street?? Still pretty freaked out over it. ) Maybe I could buy you a beer or 5?
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