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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Duke Leto" data-source="post: 1334526" data-attributes="member: 35693">hmm a most interesting thread, I don't believe I'm anything else than an amateur photographer, I enjoy a hobby that for some weird reason evolved into a love of capturing birds in the wild.I honestly believe its not what you have but how its used, okay there is a point where you need to have a basic level of equipment especially if you shoot wildlife, but after that most discussions are down to technical aspects and test bench improvements.  No doubt there are advances but how does the average user extract the best out of the advances? There are changes which are obvious before everyone quotes the more obvious like vr or improved AF etc.In 1990 (I think it was) I bought a Contax 167mt.  I sold that camera / lens to a collector in Sweden in 2006, it serviced me for 16 years. Why is it different today? Why are people driven to believe that upgrading or changing will benefit them?  Are we sucked in to magazine / marketing hype?  Do we get told that it will improve things? Are we victims of subliminal advertising? do we envy those that have newer / better / bigger things? do we feel inadequate if we don't have these?And before anyone asks I drive a Skoda....... Posted not to offend but to stimulate discussion</blockquote>