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<blockquote data-quote="gqtuazon" data-source="post: 43440" data-attributes="member: 6573">Hahaha! That was funny.&nbsp; James- I think you've nailed it right on the head!&nbsp; I'm sorry to hear about your health condition too. My wife often tells me that I spend too much time on the computer and with my photography, and she is right this time.&nbsp; We do need to balance our time with our family.&nbsp; I knew this when I started spending more time with her and she appreciated it a lot.Like you, I've gone through several camera upgrades, lenses from the Nikon D primes, cheaper zoom lenses such as the Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 to the more expensive Nikon pro lenses, speedlights, tripods and heads. I guess there is a common trend for a promising photographer to go through gears, lenses, photosharing, creating a website photo sharing account such as flickr, etc.&nbsp; What makes it a little more frustrating is when someone ask for a recommendation (not particularly in this forum), is they tend to ignore your suggestion since the price is way beyond to what they are willing to spend on. Being a gear head myself, which I think meet this description, can only suggest the same stuff over and over again. Sometimes it's easier to provide them a link of previous and similar discussions if they only use the &quot;search&quot; feature.Not trying to bash on Dpreview, but most conversations that I have read in that forum are pretty brutal or harsh.&nbsp; Everybody seems to be very knowledgeable in that forum based on what they've read on other websites. Not my cup of tea so I tend to stay away from that forum except to read some of their reviews.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gqtuazon, post: 43440, member: 6573"] Hahaha! That was funny. James- I think you've nailed it right on the head! I'm sorry to hear about your health condition too. My wife often tells me that I spend too much time on the computer and with my photography, and she is right this time. We do need to balance our time with our family. I knew this when I started spending more time with her and she appreciated it a lot. Like you, I've gone through several camera upgrades, lenses from the Nikon D primes, cheaper zoom lenses such as the Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 to the more expensive Nikon pro lenses, speedlights, tripods and heads. I guess there is a common trend for a promising photographer to go through gears, lenses, photosharing, creating a website photo sharing account such as flickr, etc. What makes it a little more frustrating is when someone ask for a recommendation (not particularly in this forum), is they tend to ignore your suggestion since the price is way beyond to what they are willing to spend on. Being a gear head myself, which I think meet this description, can only suggest the same stuff over and over again. Sometimes it's easier to provide them a link of previous and similar discussions if they only use the "search" feature. Not trying to bash on Dpreview, but most conversations that I have read in that forum are pretty brutal or harsh. Everybody seems to be very knowledgeable in that forum based on what they've read on other websites. Not my cup of tea so I tend to stay away from that forum except to read some of their reviews. [/QUOTE]

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