@glennlab you know they have meds to help with those dark places.

It was really expensive when you think about it. That and the fact that you had to know how to take a photo is why there were far fewer "photographers" back then. Now, anybody can take great pics with their cellphone and call themselves a Photographer.

@Reignmond I feel like a dinosaur when I carry my camera bag with me, but I like my pictures better and my zoom is way better. I have over 25000 pictures from just the last 5 years, a number that I would never have been able to afford on film.

@glennlab I agree, but I do enjoy the amazingly good photos I can take with my phone. But then I also lament that the title "photographer" is now essentially meaningless.

I currently shoot Canon and have a large collection of lenses (6.5mm to 800mm with a number of specialty lenses). I was a Pentax man for a long time until they gave up everything that made Pentax great. And I have a large collection o older equipment that now just collects dust. I tell people that the readonI never had a normal drug addiction like other kids because photography took all my money.