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It’s an issue that every one photographers and filmmakers expertise sooner or later. We see some shiny new gear, and we simply should have it. Proper? However can we? Do we actually want it, or can we simply need it?
Adam Karnacz at First Man Pictures thoughtfully discusses this subject in his current video. Adam’s discuss, he says, is as a lot to himself as it’s to us. However he discusses the methods we may also help to manage our G.A.S. and determination paralysis.
GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) and determination paralysis are two very actual issues. Sure, they might be “first-world issues”, however they’re nonetheless issues. GAS makes us develop our gear collections unnecessarily giant. Resolution paralysis is after we’re overloaded with a lot gear, we don’t know which to make use of.
When a lot gear on the market guarantees to be the newest and best no matter it’s, with ten occasions extra issues than its predecessor and twice as quick, it’s troublesome to know what advertising hype to imagine. This solely compounds the issue.
Typically we have now an concept inside our heads of “what a photographer ought to have”, with out realizing if we actually want it in any respect. And generally, with out realizing why we’d want it. We simply get it as a result of we expect it’s anticipated.
Living proof, gentle meters. Many photographers purchase handheld incident gentle meters as a result of they’ve learn that each photographer ought to have one. I’ve misplaced observe of the variety of photographers I’ve met through the years who personal a handheld gentle meter however don’t know what to do with it and by no means use it.
I’ve a lightweight meter. However I would like a lightweight meter for sure tasks. Gentle meters can supply particular benefits for particular kinds of pictures and filmmaking. Do I recommend everybody go get one? No. And even when I do recommend that a person purchase a lightweight meter, do I inform them to get the newest and best? Additionally no.
For about ten years, I used a Sekonic L718 as my gentle meter. And it was already twenty years outdated once I purchased it. I did lastly replace to an L758DR a few years in the past as a result of it supplied a function I wanted on the time. A function that my L718 didn’t have. If not for that one function, I’d nonetheless fortunately be utilizing my L718 (and I do nonetheless use it when capturing movie as an alternative of the L758).
For Adam, it was a studio. He set one up as a result of he wished one. He thought he ought to have one and he wished one, however he didn’t actually need one. It simply ended up turning into a trouble for him, as he explains within the video.
Finally, what Adam wanted was to get out extra and shoot landscapes.
The message is straightforward. Purchase gear since you genuinely want what it presents you, not simply since you need it and also you assume it would present some imaginary profit as a result of advertising firms have advised you it’ll.
Then, get on the market and use it. You’ll solely actually uncover your real wants when you already know (and hit!) the bounds of your present equipment. And it doesn’t matter what style of pictures you shoot. Truly capturing will train you all it’s essential learn about your gear and what you want.
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