{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blogposting-js","path":"/blog/gearlust","result":{"data":{"mdx":{"body":"function _extends() { _extends = Object.assign || function (target) { for (var i = 1; i < arguments.length; i++) { var source = arguments[i]; for (var key in source) { if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(source, key)) { target[key] = source[key]; } } } return target; }; return _extends.apply(this, arguments); }\n\nfunction _objectWithoutProperties(source, excluded) { if (source == null) return {}; var target = _objectWithoutPropertiesLoose(source, excluded); var key, i; if (Object.getOwnPropertySymbols) { var sourceSymbolKeys = Object.getOwnPropertySymbols(source); for (i = 0; i < sourceSymbolKeys.length; i++) { key = sourceSymbolKeys[i]; if (excluded.indexOf(key) >= 0) continue; if (!Object.prototype.propertyIsEnumerable.call(source, key)) continue; target[key] = source[key]; } } return target; }\n\nfunction _objectWithoutPropertiesLoose(source, excluded) { if (source == null) return {}; var target = {}; var sourceKeys = Object.keys(source); var key, i; for (i = 0; i < sourceKeys.length; i++) { key = sourceKeys[i]; if (excluded.indexOf(key) >= 0) continue; target[key] = source[key]; } return target; }\n\n/* @jsxRuntime classic */\n\n/* @jsx mdx */\nvar _frontmatter = {\n  \"date\": \"2008-11-10T18:22:27.187Z\",\n  \"updated\": \"2008-11-10T18:22:27.187Z\",\n  \"type\": \"BlogPosting\",\n  \"title\": \"On my astonishing lack of gearlust\",\n  \"entityId\": \"025559f0-f940-11e6-8d52-ffa6c436feb5\",\n  \"revisionId\": \"025559f1-f940-11e6-8d52-ffa6c436feb5\",\n  \"revisionNum\": 1,\n  \"tags\": {\n    \"plain\": [{\n      \"@id\": \"meta\",\n      \"objClass\": \"tag\"\n    }]\n  },\n  \"sidebar\": \"This actually makes me weird, even for a film shooter. 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I make lighting bits out of cardboard and gaffer\\u2019s tape.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"And I tend to hate spending huge amounts of money in one go. I like figuring out ways to purchase things incrementally, so I wanted to work out what the incremental purchases would be and how I\\u2019d save.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"My daddy gave me a Canon TX when I was in sixth grade because he saw how much I liked cameras, largely because this way I\\u2019d be able to borrow his lenses and other gear if I needed to.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"And in the 2001 timeframe, I was married, working a real full-time job, and wanting to get The Camera. So I researched the heck out of it and tried to figure out what I wanted. This was during the days where digital cameras were totally not good enough for hardcore use. I wasn\\u2019t sure about how I could source gear for it, given that it\\u2019s obsolete and stuff. And I was in a phase where I kinda wanted nice shiny new things. So I started to research things and pondered getting a nice new EOS camera and a nice set of lenses. But I never really felt comfortable making the jump to buying the camera and digital SLRs came along, where the game then was to not buy a camera till the market got a little more stable.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"There was a missed opportunity there. See, I think that were I to have jumped at some point and gotten a film EOS setup, I would probably have ended up upgrading gear.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Then the A95 came along, which was supposed to be my wife\\u2019s camera. And when I\\u2019d thought for a period of time that I\\u2019d lost it, I started thinking about getting a digital SLR then, but my wife talked me out of it on account of budgetary reasons and I ended up rediscovering how much I liked my 35mm camera.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"The universe fits together quite well, I think. This started me down the road of using gear that was different from what people would expect. Everybody else moved to digital SLRs, I moved to medium format. I realized how Canon shipped a full lineup of reasonable prime lenses for the FD mount, where they weren\\u2019t incredibly fast lenses, just reasonable well-corrected lenses, so I could have a whole bunch of interesting lenses and pay less than a hundred for each one. And then I realized that the most bang for the buck was shooting a medium format camera and only taking good shots.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"And so I end where I am now, where my work is a little more interesting than it would otherwise because I\\u2019m shooting film, but also where I continue to see how to do fun things for not much money and I still think a few hundred dollars is a LOT of money to spend on camera gear. 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