Why is it said that "Photography has failed three generations, and SLRs have ruined their lives"?

You can still play SLR with an annual salary of 10,000 yuan.

Three generations of photography are poor, and SLRs ruin their lives. This means that photography enthusiasts often have strong desires for photographic equipment and photography behaviors that exceed their own capabilities.

For example, the pursuit of body, such as the pursuit of lenses, even tripods, camera bags, hats, clothing, gloves, umbrellas... At the same time, you have to go to many places, such as to Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou to take pictures of terraced fields; to the Tengger Desert to take pictures of sunrise and sunset; to Bashang to take pictures of grasslands...or to Halong Bay in Vietnam, to Angkor in Cambodia, to Amazon River...

If it is an early film machine, you still have to build a darkroom and buy darkroom equipment...

If the above problems can be ignored, the average salaryman will buy it Playing around with a mid-range SLR is really not a big deal.

Extended information:

Human desires are endless. Once you get into photography, you will always be obsessed with upgrading your own machines and lenses, so you will spend more and more money. So to say ruin one's life means that one's entire life's money must be invested here. The poor third generation means that if you are too obsessed, you will have a certain degree of lack of investment in children's education and family responsibilities.

Of course, photography is poor for three generations, and SLR will ruin your life. It’s just a joke. As long as you have a correct attitude towards photography and have a degree according to your own situation. Photography is poor for three generations, and SLR will ruin your life.” is an exaggerated description, and it is not really true, but learning photography is indeed expensive, and it is a burden for the working class.

Because I bought it at the beginning After the SLR, with the improvement of photography technology and the expansion of photography knowledge, I needed to buy a lot of equipment. For example, I first bought a SLR kit, and then I thought about buying a tripod, a monopod, a camera bag, various lenses, wide-angle, etc. Telephoto, fixed focus, and then buy various filters. To process photos, you need a computer with good performance. After using it for a while, you feel that the monitor is not good, so you need to change to a better monitor.

With the main unit, after a long time I thought about the need for a secondary camera, and then bought all the accessories for the secondary camera, and then I thought about the need to upgrade the camera, replacing the broken-frame one with a full-frame one; after buying all the accessories, I want to change the camera again, and I want to replace the Canon one with a Nikon one. Then I have to buy a new set of cameras and lenses, add filters with different sizes, and so on.

< p>Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia - The Third Generation of SLR