i’m finally coming back to it, i started this blog writing about gear lust and i’m falling into that old trap again. but this time i am coming at it from a lot more skeptical angle. whereas three months ago i could have told you the fifty reasons why i absolutely need a drone to bring my game to the next level, today i am asking a new question. do i even actually want a drone? i have been pining over this idea that i am going to get a drone before the big trip. i’ve spent countless hours thinking about how necessary it is for me to get one so i can get sweet buttery footage of all the places we’ll go. and now i’m coming up to the point where i will actually purchase one and thinking…wtf am i even doing? why do i need this?
as i dive deeper into the photo game, i find myself realizing how out of date my canon 5d mark iii with its 22.3 megapixel sensor has become. and i wonder if the smarter decision would be to invest in a higher-resolution camera so i can take seriously out-of-this-world photos on my travels.
i’m so glad this isn’t a decision i need to make now or even within the next two months. because i realize i have a lot of weighing of options to do.
part of me is very attached to the idea of getting the drone and moving forward with the travel video plans. but another part of me wonders, if it’s so important and i see it as so valuable, then why haven’t i stitched together the footage i already have from iceland? my primary obstacle is that every waking hour lately has been sucked up by job, workout, travel planning or photography lately. but the truth is if i wanted to be doing it i would be doing it. and i’m not doing it, so how do i get myself to want to be?
going back to the original quandary, i am starting to think that maybe there is another option. maybe i need to go cheaper on the drone and buy a 42-megapixel or higher mirrorless body. maybe that would be the right call. or maybe the right call is to buy nothing. live in the moment and leave all the tech nonsense at home. bring the camera i have, the lenses i have, and do what i can with them. forget about travel videos and just be a person out there being present in the world. the more i think about it, the more i feel like that might be the right answer.
i’ll probably still buy a drone. and whether it’s before or after this trip, i’ll absolutely be buying a higher resolution camera to take my portraits and landscapes to the next level. but maybe this need i’m feeling to upgrade is manufactured, driven by gear lust and not by actual need.
i have a lot of thinking to do.