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<blockquote data-quote="J-see" data-source="post: 369870" data-attributes="member: 31330"><p>It got little to do with money. I have 700+Gb empty space on this HD and I still delete daily.</p><p></p><p>We, and I speak for the hobbyists now, have to understand that like all others we have a tendency to become hoarders. If needed we will build something to the house in order to store even more. But most of what we store is doing nothing else but collecting dust. Yes we can look at them again but it's going to be a couple some day when it's too bad to shoot.</p><p></p><p>We can have a family evening and all watch some shots. If they're young enough we can force the kids to watch them too. But after an hour, they start daydreaming how being an orphan would be like. Imagine you've got a friend that collects stamps, or coins, or anything else remotely uninteresting. Imagine he wants to show them to you. All 3000. The first time you might do so out of politeness. After that you'll start practicing great excuses to leave when you'll visit him again. Most people are not as interested in a hobby as those into that hobby. Many are willing to look at a couple of great shots. If you indulge them with more, they'll run off screaming.</p><p></p><p>Even we ourselves will, at some point, no longer care about many a shot. But we're hoarders and deleting feels like cutting a limb. We'd rather know it is there even when it doesn't do anything else but being there.</p><p></p><p>I'm a realist, I do now what I'll end up doing anyways; taking out the garbage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="J-see, post: 369870, member: 31330"] It got little to do with money. I have 700+Gb empty space on this HD and I still delete daily. We, and I speak for the hobbyists now, have to understand that like all others we have a tendency to become hoarders. If needed we will build something to the house in order to store even more. But most of what we store is doing nothing else but collecting dust. Yes we can look at them again but it's going to be a couple some day when it's too bad to shoot. We can have a family evening and all watch some shots. If they're young enough we can force the kids to watch them too. But after an hour, they start daydreaming how being an orphan would be like. Imagine you've got a friend that collects stamps, or coins, or anything else remotely uninteresting. Imagine he wants to show them to you. All 3000. The first time you might do so out of politeness. After that you'll start practicing great excuses to leave when you'll visit him again. Most people are not as interested in a hobby as those into that hobby. Many are willing to look at a couple of great shots. If you indulge them with more, they'll run off screaming. Even we ourselves will, at some point, no longer care about many a shot. But we're hoarders and deleting feels like cutting a limb. We'd rather know it is there even when it doesn't do anything else but being there. I'm a realist, I do now what I'll end up doing anyways; taking out the garbage. [/QUOTE]
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