On Jan 24, 2011, at 7:02 AM, Scott Loveless wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:20 AM, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Jan 24, 2011, at 7:05 AM, Eric Weir wrote: >> >>> My need at this point is not for gear. I really have everything I need. >>> It's become vividly clear to me that this takes commitment. >> >> Yes. To misquote Lance Armstrong, it's not about the camera. > > There's a general consensus among the cycling crowd that Lance > Armstrong is full of shit and it is, in fact, all about the bike.
The cycling crowd makes photographers seem like a bunch of artistic purists disinterested in equipment, while for the vast majority of them, the cost/benefit ratio of upgrading gear is even less favorable than it is for most photographers. Buying a new lens can allow me to get pictures that I hadn't been able to before, while dropping the same money to save 10 grams off my gear chain will have far less benefit on my riding. Mind you, I'm a much better photographer than I am a bicyclist, and if I spent as much time bicycling as I do playing with cameras, I'd be much less of a man than I am today. Probably thirty pounds less. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
