Mmm - well, buying and selling cameras and lenses is my only vice [the only one that costs any amount of money anyway!]. The obsession really comes with knowing I'm bound to see something unusual or good to photograph if I set out on my morning dog walk without a camera - and if I don;t add a long lens it will be too far away to capture. The money thing is the main problem for most of us I suppose - there's always a new camera or better/wider/longer lens out there! So, wanting the most up to date, pretty heavy duty/feature filled camera with the lenses I wanted at a good price second hand I got a 40D [regretfully selling all my Olympus gear - lovely lenses but to get the length I wanted in a 'good' lens it means spending over £3000]. Is this enough to satisfy my obsession? Who knows - I'd have rather gone Fuji [still a bit slow for birding I believe] or Nikon but the 40D was the right price and the lenses at really good prices. Must take lots of photos during the winter to make my mind up!
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