The hobby of caring about cameras sometimes overtakes the hobby of taking pictures.

It's kind of a meme within the photography community though. People will spend many thousands of dollars on a camera that's supposedly "the best" (pick your fave reasons, ideally as obscure as possible) and then not actually shoot with it. Looking at yall, Leica fans.

Indeed. Collecting cameras, and talking about cameras, is a very different hobby from photography. That's OK! Both can be fun.

Inspired me to write this blog post: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/04/20/hobbies.html

There's a saying about how typical people use their audio system to listen to music, but audiophiles use music to listen to their audio system. An equivalent should be made for photography.