--- KT Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 03.3.8 0:46 PM, "William Robb" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > No, no, the term gadget freak is NOT the exclusive > honourably mention of > Japanese alone :-). Certainly not an ethnic slur > although I used it quite > often to laugh at ourselves. Or a hardware junky perhaps. We all, in one way or another, do it. As long as it is a hobby done in moderation, then it is fine. What I've seen many times in my professional career is seeing many amateurs got themselves into trouble by buying every single known high-end equipment known in the pro-forum, hoping to emulate or achieve some sort of simulated pro-stature only to be dissappointed by their lack of self accomplishment. Many people on this forum will always dream of becoming a pro and that's a healthy dream. Most working photographers earn the same decent living as everyone here, which is nothing to write home about. These photographers have to put food on the table and pay bills just like everybody else. And to suggest that working photographers can afford expensive cameras on a yearly basis is an odd thing to say. Unless you know of many photographers who make a 6 to 8 figures salary, the rest are just slaving away at their jobs. Equipment upgrade is probably the last thing on their minds, since it means having to provide the cash outlay from somewhere to finance the equipment purchase. I have seen a lot of promising working photographers who are talented artists only to have done extremely poor business wise. Of the many working professionals I know and have met during my career as a photographer, most to all of them don't *want* to have anything to do with photography at all after work. After an 8 hours shift with your camera, do you really want to spend another 4 hours in front of your computer talking about the subject you already spent 8 hrs earlier? Unless you are a "no-life" photographer, I suspect most pro photographers spend most of their off hours time with their wives, girlfriends and their kids. No doubt, there are "so-called" working photographers lurking in the forum somewhere trying to help and promote the industry, but I would exercise my judgement as to what is fact and what is hearsay, expecially when they are coming from the net.. It is strange that we have put so much faith on the net that we believe what every single person on the pro-forum has said even without doing any of your own due dilligence. Remember what caused people to loose their shirt with Enron and Global Crossings? Buying stocks based on hearsay on the net.. Now, where are the real pros?? When you are famous and well respected in your field, you don't need to sell yourself on the net that you are one of the one right? These are confident people that do not need to hide behind the technology of the camera. He and she can be just as confident with a low-end point and shooter and a Brownie box. It is that confidence that sets us apart from being a real pro or being a pro wannabe or a working professional! Rick... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
