Please pardon the goofy title of this post, but I'm really worried I might be coming upon a serious crossroads in my life - or in other words, my photography. Let me try to explain and maybe with your help, your wisdom and your reason, I'll come out of this intact -
1. About two months ago I bought a DSLR, a Nikon D300 from a well known forum member. I've owned DSLRs before, but I'd never seriously considered making "The Switch" and I never really thought of using a digital camera as anything other then a "Polaroid back", if you know what I mean.
2. Recently, I came to the point where I think I have everything I could want or need with regard to the kind of large format film photography that I do. I have nice cameras in formats up to 8x10, I have every lens I think I need, and I have my darkroom, such as it is, set up and fitted out about as well as it possibly could be. I even have a pretty compete set of lighting and studio type gear, though rarely used, just because it's appropriate to a Photographer's kit! Basically, I'm at that rarefied point where, given a blank check to buy anything photography (equipment) related I want, I cannot easily think of anything at all.
As I'm sure it is with many - most? - of you, there is almost always something you're saving for, searching for, dreaming about, etc., with regard to some lens, or camera or whatever. In some strange way, always striving for that next piece of gear, then finally getting it, then working on the next thing, kinda makes it seem (to me anyway, in retrospect) that you're actually striving for and occasionally reaching, photographic goals.
3. And now, after all that, I seem to be coming into the biggest creative slump I've yet experienced - and I've been through some bad ones! I'm at the point of thinking that I could probably sell everything and have enough for a very nice Full Frame, or maybe even Medium Format digital outfit, including Mac computers and inkjet printers. I'm afraid I only feel this way because I'm not currently "striving" for any new gear right now and my photography seems lifeless, pointless and hopeless.
Please help! I don't [think] I really want to go digital!
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