Do You Have Gear Acquisition Syndrome (G.A.S.)?

B&H Photography Podcast

Jill Waterman

Podcast, Photography, Arts, Visual Arts, Bh, Photo

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

My apologies for the personal question, but we all suffer from Gear Acquisition Syndrome in one form or another, and it’s good to talk about it, especially if it aids in recovery. With Gabe Biderman and Todd Vorenkamp, we will discuss camera cycles from the digital and analog eras, talk new technology and try to understand why there is so much camera stuff to buy nowadays. Who is to blame for G.A.S.? The camera manufacturers, the retailers, the blogs, China!? Or could it be that imaging technology has improved so much in the past few years to truly warrant this welcomed illness? Either way, our guests will commiserate with your suffering and even provide a few simple cures for what ails you. Join us for an enlightening and entertaining conversation and while you're at it, shout us out on Twitter with #BHPhotoPodcast and rate our episode on iTunes. Thanks!

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0:00.0	You're listening to the B&H Photography Podcast.
0:04.0	For over 40 years, B&H has been the professional source for photography, video, audio, and more.
0:09.0	For your favorite gear, news, and reviews, visit us at B&H.com or download the B&H app to your iPhone or Android device.
0:17.0	Now here's your host, Alan Whitez.
0:20.0	Welcome to the B&H Photography Podcast. My name is John Harris. I'm the producer of the show.
0:25.0	Our host, Alan Whitez, is on vacation this week. So we brought in Todd Voroncamp to be our co-host.
0:31.0	We have with us Gabe Bederman from the B&H Road Marketing team.
0:35.0	He is a photographer, of course, and the author of the book, Night Photography, from snapshots to great shots.
0:41.0	It's a good book.
0:42.0	It is a great book, yeah. Welcome, Gabe.
0:44.0	Are you the one I'm here? I'm a game.
0:46.0	And today's subject, fittingly, is gas. Gear acquisition syndrome.
0:53.0	And why you don't need a new camera. But really, why digital cameras are updated so frequently,
1:02.0	whereas in the era of film, which I guess we're still in to some degree, that didn't happen so much.
1:08.0	And Todd, I'm going to throw it to you with some of your facts and figures.
1:10.0	Sure. So I looked up things on the internet.
1:14.0	And what did the World Wide Web tell us?
1:17.0	It told us everything that was true.
1:21.0	So I'll use the Nikon line to start because they have a fairly logical numbering system for their cameras.
1:28.0	And if you go back to the film days of Nikon back to the Nikon F, which was their first SLR professional camera,
1:37.0	that came out in 1959. And then if you wanted the next awesome professional Nikon SLR, you waited 13 years for the Nikon F2 to show up.
1:46.0	After that, they went on eight-year cycle. So eight years between the F2 and F3, which was 1980,
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