Come On People, It’s Time To Stop Obsessing Over Gear & Just Make Some Damn Films1 min read

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We need to talk.

I know that headline was a bit antagonistic, and I’m sorry, but I had to get your attention. And now that you’re here, I’ll be nicer, I swear. It’s just that I’ve had something on my mind lately, something quietly discomforting, and maybe even borderline malevolent. It’s something that I’ve come to know as Gear Acquisition Syndrome ““ GAS for short ““ and it’s a form of mass artistic paralysis.

You see, GAS is a way of thinking, or rather a psychologically-crippling state of mind, in which someone becomes convinced that they can’t produce something worthwhile or meaningful until they’ve acquired certain pieces of gear, say a GH4 and a set of Nokton hyperprimes, or an F5 and some Zeiss CP2s. The thinking goes that it just wouldn’t be prudent to produce work with their current, terrible, awful, shitty gear, like a T3i and a nifty fifty. I mean, why would you shoot something now with your inadequate old gear when gorgeous image (or sound) quality is right around the corner with your next purchase.

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