The Camera Funnel

[Anscojohn]

Just asking the question might be the beginning of recovery. Take the first and hardest step and release yourself from one, then another and another until you have a healthy but small number.
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[flatulent1]

I'm with Ben on this one; I may have 40 or 50 camera bodies in various stages of disrepair, but they're divided up into five systems, plus two further sub-systems. Not counting the rangefinders and the P&S and toy cameras and folders and box cameras and...

What has me concerned for my own mental (as well as financial) health is everything was acquired within the last five years. And I do think I have enough. Well, I don't have an Olympus, or a Pentax, or a large format, or a Leica...

Man, it's a good thing I'm single.

[benjiboy]

I'm with Ben on this one; I may have 40 or 50 camera bodies in various stages of disrepair, but they're divided up into five systems, plus two further sub-systems. Not counting the rangefinders and the P&S and toy cameras and folders and box cameras and...

What has me concerned for my own mental (as well as financial) health is everything was acquired within the last five years. And I do think I have enough. Well, I don't have an Olympus, or a Pentax, or a large format, or a Leica...

Man, it's a good thing I'm single.

There came a time in my life when I realized , although it took more than twenty years, that creativity wasn't a problem you could throw money at, and that the vast majority of the photographers I most admired had become legends with the minimum of equipment.
With reference to your Alfred Hitchcock quote, and the state of my prostate, I don't think anyone makes six exposure films :D