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Here's an idea for an entrepreneurial spirit. You set up shop with zoom/skype calls, charge by the hour. Weekly appointments -- emergency rates apply. Your patients -- photographers who suffer from GAS. You listen to their worries, desires, wishlists and try to talk them out of a new purchase...

One thing that is stopping my camera body GAS is current emphasis on video. I gather the stills side of things has plateaued for while, at least in terms of advances and profits for the camera makers. I'm not a video guy and when I need video clips of the grand kids the old iPhone comes out...

I need to stop....

Man-in-the-middle attack ... I know the title may sound click-bait-y, but please bear with me for a moment if you, like me, are susceptible to the affliction we call "GAS" ... For us photography enthusiasts, chasing gear is almost as common a tendency as feeling dissatisfied with what we...

What do you desire this moment, how come and will you do anything about it? What fancy reasons, made-up or otherwise you are able to tell yourself? :)

This is what $10000 worth of liquid Helium looks like. We will waste most of it cooling the superconducting magnet of our new NMR to 4 Kelvin (-452 F). The magnet is the thermos on legs in the middle. The tank in the front right is a Dewar of liquid nitrogen that we are using to get the...

This is a thread about battling against time-constrained GAS. This happens when someone puts their gear for sale and the deal is good. Either I give in, or somebody buys it before me. It's just a matter of riding it out, see if I can hold on... There'll be daily updates and musings.

I just came across a website called Shotkit today where various photographers covering different types of photography discuss what gear they use, why they use it, and provide a little background about themselves. For the gear porn lovers, the photographers also post a photo of their gear (along...

Copying a thread from a sister site ;) This week I bought a SMC Pentax 67 55mm f/4. Already have the SMC Pentax 67 105mm f/2.4. I'm just missing a Pentax 67 :rolleyes:

Hi there everyone, long time no see. As the forum Elders might imagine, real life issues can be an ostruction to ones picture taking, both in good and bad ways - and I've had both of those - add to it a decent smartphone and most of my pics went that way - with some burts of camera activity...