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Why do you drool over your car which is essentially a tool getting you from A to B but dismiss dong it over a camera which you refer to as just a tool?
Because cars aren't that at all. If that were the case, they'd all look the same (like all cameras pretty much do... let's be honest) and they'd not be such cultural icons in themselves. Whole cities and the landscape itself has been irrevocably changed as a result of the car. It's changed how we live, work, travel, and even changed the lexicon of language, both written and visual. While PHOTOGRAPHY has has a similar impact... the camera itself, as an artefact, has not. No one writes songs about cameras; No one directs camera chase scenes in movies, and no one treats buying their first camera as a right of passage and ticket to freedom. There's more to a car than a box that moves. Speed, power, noise, freedom... it's visceral and primitive. It's exciting. Cameras are not exciting. Photography is... cameras aren't.
Plus... it cost $42000, and I don't want it to go rusty... which is perhaps the main reason actually. I simply don't need to do that to stop my camera going rusty.
what year
2006
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