Originally posted by clackers Nice trolling- back to form, Ron!
Will you have started taking pictures again by then, or is it all still too painful watching everyone else have a great time?
My sympathies are with Ron. It's a difficult job but someone has to do it. Besides, contrarian thinking is welcome when 101 posts all point another way but also recycle the same opinions between them - too much received wisdom thinking.
It's OK to ask whether issuing a new prime lens the size of a small badger and costing more than 1000 bucks is the only way of the future. It could be, but what is the merit in being the same as everyone else? Bear in mind that we are talking about only a partial image of the camera scene here - the traditional big-bodied, big-lensed DSLR. That may or may not have an important role in the future of photography but it is far from the whole picture. One-third or so of the Ricoh stand at CP+ is signed to the Pentax KP, another kind of future. How quickly everyone has forgotten it, but vastly more people will continue to use a camera like the KP or stablemates than are likely ever to use an FF DSLR.