BUT, if you enjoy playing a P-Bass more than the $50 Sears copy, you'll play it more often, practise more often, and therefore become a better player.
If you enjoy the tactile feel of a certain camera and lenses, you'll take more pictures, and (eventually), become a better photographer. Won't you? regards, frank Butch Black wrote: > I'd like to add my 2 cents worth in. There is a certain pleasure in working > with something that is well engineered and made. An enjoyment in the tactile > feel of it. The analogy of a musician strikes me as being similar. A great > guitarist can make a $50 Sears guitar sound wonderful, but most will play > well set up Strats, or Les Pauls, or maybe a custom body. I played bass in a > blues band in the 80's and I loved the feel of old Fender precisions (I had > a 64 with a B neck). Did it make me a better bass player? not really. Did it > add to my enjoyment? most definitely. I find the same is true for me with > cameras. I like the feel of older Pentax lenses and bodies. They don't make > me a better photographer, but they add to my enjoyment. I would consider > feel ONE of the criteria in buying a new (to me) lens or body. > > BUTCH > > "Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself" > Hermann Hesse (Demian) -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
