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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:42:49 -0600
From: Chip Stratton <cstrat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Hardware fetish (long), was Re: [OM] Jane Bown
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To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Amen Doris. I still have some of the hardware fetishist in me, but I
learned my lesson many years ago with audio equipment. As long as I was
sub*scribing to "Audio" and "High Fidelity" magazine, I was always
dissatisfied with my own equipment, no matter what I had just purchased -
there was always something coming along that I felt I 'had to have'.
Then I decided not to resub*scribe to those hardware rags, and suddenly I
was content with my lot. Maybe for the same reason I don't sub*scribe to
any of the popular photo mags - Madison Avenue is just too much for my weak
soul! Fortunately, they don't spend so much in "Photo Techniques", so that
is a safe one for me.
Chip Stratton
cstrat@xxxxxxxxx
Doris wrote:
>One of the core truths about photography is that to succeed on almost
>any plane, it has to be about something else. When one obsesses on the
>hardware or the process too much you become a dog chasing its own tail.
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