What about 1973 or 1987 or 2004 or 2021? Are they special years in my entire life of spending (a lot of) money on photographic gear from the cheapest to the expensive ones? And when that race of flavors will be ended by my own incapacity to take pictures?
What has been a story of ambiguity and unbalanced passion in getting and trying something else to do photography? Because did I really know or not what I was doing with all these iconographic devices named under fantastic names from every foreign language even from some nonexistent ones! Should I really try to enumerate them or should better be to forget all these material ephemera pieces of past uncommon human genius.
The big question is for what higher purpose do we need to substitute our successful equipment for the newest one. Surely the taste of the day may play an important role. Curiosity is another factor and our love to look over the fence and see a brighter landscape. The there is also all these influential people that promote all these novelties with the implicit complicity of the manufacturers or simply because they want to be ahead of everyone.
Lately I was struck by the futility of always changing for something, let say honestly, that will allow us the same level of artistic or documentary satisfaction or may be worse ask us to do again an apprentice for devices not really more technically appealing. At the end we are facing very consuming habit just for the desire to own something that will be replace in a short future by another one. What is the use to do so again and again? Do we have learned something regarding this futile material behavior.
Hopefully, may be because of the pandemic, although it has started a bit before, there a recent trend to go back to basic photographic good, reliable and still performing photographic gear that are fulfilling nicely our photographic task with a much lesser price in term of money and in term of spending time for their learning curve of use. You can consult over the Web some interesting articles or posts about less recent camera models or lenses that their respectable authors are sharing and are still proving their pertinence.
What lessons we can retain from the race for the photographic latest gear acquisition mania. May be that, for some, they cannot prevent the appeal to switch for the newest of the newest. For many others, that material rush doesn't seem to be a logical way of doing photography because of the more importance to master the medium by themself and doing their own technical artistic choice over the inside camera computer internal algorithmic.
At the end it is a matter of needs, tastes and ... money!
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