Please bear with me, there is a connection here. 
The digital camera I use, a Canon 20D, is 7 years old now. Unlike machine gun shooters I think (a lot) about the scene before me and what it is I want to capture. Composing in camera means I can print at 16x20 if I so desire, and have. For my typical range of 8x10 or 11x14 it is a wonderful camera. This means I don't have to keep getting cameras with more and more mega pixels.
Of course I came in from film and remember having to save my allowance or after school work wages to buy film, chemicals, etc. While I remember the saying "film is cheap", I also remember we did not just burn film hoping to get "that" image. We planned for it and then worked to capture it.
The Canon 20D continues to do what I want. Do I look at those shiny new models? Sure. Then I look at the price tag and read about the problems people are having with features x, y or z. And there sits my trusty 20D.
The same for my Mac Pro 3,1 (early 2008). It originally belonged to my wife. It became a milestone b'day present. She even paid to bring it to 12GB of memory and some extra drives. It does what I need it to do; it runs Aperture (a Christmas present) very well and does all the other stuff I need.
While I don't earn my $$$ from either the 20D or the Mac Pro, I've taken a mindset that there has to be a compelling reason to upgrade. Going from Tiger to Leopard to Snow Leopard, there were compelling reasons. Just like going from the Canon D30, to the 10D and finally the 20D.
The digital camera I use, a Canon 20D, is 7 years old now. Unlike machine gun shooters I think (a lot) about the scene before me and what it is I want to capture. Composing in camera means I can print at 16x20 if I so desire, and have. For my typical range of 8x10 or 11x14 it is a wonderful camera. This means I don't have to keep getting cameras with more and more mega pixels.
Of course I came in from film and remember having to save my allowance or after school work wages to buy film, chemicals, etc. While I remember the saying "film is cheap", I also remember we did not just burn film hoping to get "that" image. We planned for it and then worked to capture it.
The Canon 20D continues to do what I want. Do I look at those shiny new models? Sure. Then I look at the price tag and read about the problems people are having with features x, y or z. And there sits my trusty 20D.
The same for my Mac Pro 3,1 (early 2008). It originally belonged to my wife. It became a milestone b'day present. She even paid to bring it to 12GB of memory and some extra drives. It does what I need it to do; it runs Aperture (a Christmas present) very well and does all the other stuff I need.
While I don't earn my $$$ from either the 20D or the Mac Pro, I've taken a mindset that there has to be a compelling reason to upgrade. Going from Tiger to Leopard to Snow Leopard, there were compelling reasons. Just like going from the Canon D30, to the 10D and finally the 20D.
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