Make it stop! (Photo pun not intended)

[JPAZ]

Saved again! At least that's what I'll keep telling myself.

I've left my notification active on CPW for the refurb 300 f/2.8 ii. I am at work (you know that evil thing that lets me buy some camera stuff from time to time), need to be away from my desk for a bit, and return to an email notification of one available on the Canon SA website for <$5k.

Yikes! I hit the link, and its gone! The email was only 20 minutes old. That's three of these beauties that were sold this weekend before I could get to them.

At least I can keep telling myself I'd need to figure out how to pay for it if it was active.

 

[sunnyVan]

Saved again! At least that's what I'll keep telling myself.

I've left my notification active on CPW for the refurb 300 f/2.8 ii. I am at work (you know that evil thing that lets me buy some camera stuff from time to time), need to be away from my desk for a bit, and return to an email notification of one available on the Canon SA website for <$5k.

Yikes! I hit the link, and its gone! The email was only 20 minutes old. That's three of these beauties that were sold this weekend before I could get to them.

At least I can keep telling myself I'd need to figure out how to pay for it if it was active.

20mins? It's probably gone in 2mins.

 

[Rienzphotoz]

I was very happy with myself when I got my new 70-200 2.8 ii for <$1800 recently after rebate. Still really feeling the love after a 300 f/2.8ii rental, I set a notification for that lens on the ongoing Black Friday sale and missed it for $4900-something TWICE because of a little something called employment getting in the way of constant email surveillance. That's probably a good thing. I could rent this lens lots of times and still spend less than a purchase (don't discuss rental $ versus purchase $ , please).

Now, I wake up to that $750 after rebate deal on the 100 Macro L f/2.8 IS at BuyDig. The temptress got me again! So now, another shining Canon box will head my way next week. I think I need to stop even looking. I need some sort of therapy, but that's been posted here before........

I think you are looking for sanity in a mental institution ;D ... most of us in CR (including myself) are crazy about acquiring gear. We do not need therapy, we need a solution ... me thinks the best solution is: sh!t loads of money to buy all the camera gear we want.

 

[JPAZ]

Can you adopt me, Rienzphotoz? Then I can get you to buy me nice presents!



There we go again. The work thing. That's how I pay the bills and hence my conflict. Work to afford but work makes me miss the notification.

 

[Rienzphotoz]

Can you adopt me, Rienzphotoz? Then I can get you to buy me nice presents!

A very dangerous idea ... we both will end up totally broke ;D

 

[tron]

I followed a special treatment and converted GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) to just ... LAS (Lens Acquisition Syndrome).

Now I mostly think of lenses not gear in general. The trick that lead to this improvement was the buying of 5D3 ;D ;D

300mm f/2.8 L IS II will have to wait since this year I got the 500mm f/4L IS II (no intents to make your GAS worse though). It is a super lens but when you need something smaller 300mm f/2.8L IS II would help a lot.

I am not sure if I really helped you... ;D ;D ;D

 

[mrsfotografie]

Haha I can relate... love my lens line up but there's always an itch (note I've bought and sold many lenses before getting to my current line-up). I can't really justify a 300 mm prime, but the Sigma 120-300mm F2.8 DG OS HSM 'S' looks tempting....

Lenses currently in my possession: :-[ :

Samyang 14mm f/2.8 IF ED UMC Aspherical
Sigma 20mm F1.8 DG Aspherical RF
Sigma 35mm F1.4 DG HSM | A
Sigma 50mm F1.4 EX DG HSM
Tamron SP AF 90mm F/2.8 Di MACRO 1:1
Canon EF 35mm f/2.0
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM
Canon Extender EF 1.4x II
Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
Tamron SP AF 17-50mm F/2,8 XR Di II LD Aspherical [IF]
Tamron SP AF 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di VC USD

And for Sony NEX:

Sony E PZ 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 OSS
Sigma 30mm F2.8 EX DN
Sony E 55-210mm F4.5-6.3 OSS

 

[Rienzphotoz]

Haha I can relate... love my lens line up but there's always an itch (note I've bought and sold many lenses before getting to my current line-up).

+1 ... Nice to be acquainted with like minded suckers for new lenses ;D (no offense)

 

[mrsfotografie]

Haha I can relate... love my lens line up but there's always an itch (note I've bought and sold many lenses before getting to my current line-up).

+1 ... Nice to be acquainted with like minded suckers for new lenses ;D (no offense)

Heheheh it's good to know there are more of us in the same boat.

Now for my next purchase.... let's see what I can justify (takes some effort)... : ???

 

[Rienzphotoz]

Haha I can relate... love my lens line up but there's always an itch (note I've bought and sold many lenses before getting to my current line-up).

+1 ... Nice to be acquainted with like minded suckers for new lenses ;D (no offense)

Heheheh it's good to know there are more of us in the same boat.

Now for my next purchase.... let's see what I can justify (takes some effort)... : ???

;D ... BTW, I'm a bit curious about your intriguing Avatar ... what does it mean? Cheers

 

[verysimplejason]

I find that the only cure for this illness is to forget about the "gear" area of forums especially canonrumors and concentrate on taking pictures and posting them in the "photos" area. I find myself looking for competitions/mini-competitions such as the one in http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/forums/forum6.htm where a lot of cheap gears are taking a lot of very good pictures. Just compare their gear with your gear and make a resolution to at least match or better their output. That will cure your gear acquisition madness for sure. Just my 2 cents. ;D

 

[Rienzphotoz]

I find that the only cure for this illness is to forget about the "gear" area of forums especially canonrumors and concentrate on taking pictures and posting them in the "photos" area. I find myself looking for competitions/mini-competitions such as the one in http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/forums/forum6.htm where a lot of cheap gears are taking a lot of very good pictures. Just compare their gear with your gear and make a resolution to at least match or better their output. That will cure your gear acquisition madness for sure. Just my 2 cents. ;D

Yes that works, but only until the next new lens/camera release ;D

 

[mrsfotografie]

Haha I can relate... love my lens line up but there's always an itch (note I've bought and sold many lenses before getting to my current line-up).

+1 ... Nice to be acquainted with like minded suckers for new lenses ;D (no offense)

Heheheh it's good to know there are more of us in the same boat.

Now for my next purchase.... let's see what I can justify (takes some effort)... : ???

;D ... BTW, I'm a bit curious about your intriguing Avatar ... what does it mean? Cheers

You're the first to ask, I'm glad somebody finally did

It's inspired by the periodic table of elements.

'Ca' is the symbol for the fictional element 'Canon EOS'.
'Canon EOS' is the name of the element.
'25' is the atomic number, which was the number of years EOS was around when I created the avatar.
'1987' is the year EOS was introduced. This would indicate the number of electrons in each shell: 1, 9, 8, 7 moving away from the core, so there are four shells of electrons.
'10.0837' is the atomic mass; it is also the founding date of Canon (10 August 1937) as Seikikōgaku kenkyūsho (jap. 精機光學研究所, Precision Optical Industry Co. Ltd.)

 

[JPAZ]

You're the first to ask, I'm glad somebody finally did

It's inspired by the periodic table of elements.

'Ca' is the symbol for the fictional element 'Canon EOS'.
'Canon EOS' is the name of the element.
'25' is the atomic number, which was the number of years EOS was around when I created the avatar.
'1987' is the year EOS was introduced. This would indicate the number of electrons in each shell: 1, 9, 8, 7 moving away from the core, so there are four shells of electrons.
'10.0837' is the atomic mass; it is also the founding date of Canon (10 August 1937) as Seikikōgaku kenkyūsho (jap. 精機光學研究所, Precision Optical Industry Co. Ltd.)

And I thought it was a Canadian 25 cent postage stamp.


Actually, that is pretty cool and creative.

 

[J.R.]

I guess I can't be of any help to you right now. I'm ordering a 300 2.8 II today ...

 

[JPAZ]

I guess I can't be of any help to you right now. I'm ordering a 300 2.8 II today ...

I'll just look at the blurry BIF photos I got with that rented lens and be happy I don't own it. I am sure those shots are due to the lens and not to the operator. The wonderfully clear pictures with fabulous color rendition and excellent IQ on the "good ones" could only be because of my ability to overcome the many shortcomings of the 300 2.8ii.

Yeah. That's what I'll try to convince myself of. Must be a bad lens since a distant Sandcrane at dusk flying against a busy background with me hand-holding the 300 with a 2xiii and shooting at the ridiculous speed of 1/80 second was not clear.

Yeah, I will tell myself that.........but I don't believe it.

Congrats on you anticipated new arrival!!!!!

 

[alexanderferdinand]

Have fun with your new optic.
One day, after saving a bit (lets say- two years) I buy a 300/2,8 too.
Till then: only small items, like the fourth 600RT....

I needed it, really! The first three are incomplete without it!

 

[Rienzphotoz]

Haha I can relate... love my lens line up but there's always an itch (note I've bought and sold many lenses before getting to my current line-up).

+1 ... Nice to be acquainted with like minded suckers for new lenses ;D (no offense)

Heheheh it's good to know there are more of us in the same boat.

Now for my next purchase.... let's see what I can justify (takes some effort)... : ???

;D ... BTW, I'm a bit curious about your intriguing Avatar ... what does it mean? Cheers

You're the first to ask, I'm glad somebody finally did

It's inspired by the periodic table of elements.

'Ca' is the symbol for the fictional element 'Canon EOS'.
'Canon EOS' is the name of the element.
'25' is the atomic number, which was the number of years EOS was around when I created the avatar.
'1987' is the year EOS was introduced. This would indicate the number of electrons in each shell: 1, 9, 8, 7 moving away from the core, so there are four shells of electrons.
'10.0837' is the atomic mass; it is also the founding date of Canon (10 August 1937) as Seikikōgaku kenkyūsho (jap. 精機光學研究所, Precision Optical Industry Co. Ltd.)

Very interesting.

 

[Rienzphotoz]

I had so much GAS yesterday, it was unbearable ... so I sold my Nikon D7100 + 18-300mm VR lens and ordered the Sony a7+28-70 lens ... cannot believe I did that, coz I had stopped buying Sony products well over 10 years ago, as I disliked their customer service and made up my mind never to buy their products ... my teen aged sons, who are crazy Sony Play Station, have been making fun of me ever since I ordered the a7

 

[mrsfotografie]

I had so much GAS yesterday, it was unbearable ... so I sold my Nikon D7100 + 18-300mm VR lens and ordered the Sony a7+28-70 lens ... cannot believe I did that, coz I had stopped buying Sony products well over 10 years ago, as I disliked their customer service and made up my mind never to buy their products ... my teen aged sons, who are crazy Sony Play Station, have been making fun of me ever since I ordered the a7

Haha.... cool 8)