My Partner Finds Out How Much My Camera Gear Costs

Photography is expensive, and there’s no way around your significant other eventually finding out. Instead of waiting around for that moment, I decided to just get it over with and record it in real-time.

We all go through a GAS phase in our photography. GAS stands for "gear acquisition syndrome," and for many of you out there, it can turn into a real problem. I’ve heard many accounts that people don’t share this type of information with the ones closest to them. I’m not someone who typically focuses heavily on gear, but I also realized I do have quite a bit of it to make the content that I do, and it was time to get it off my chest just how GASsy I really am.

In this fun and lighthearted video, which might have been a mistake in retrospect, I task my partner with trying to guess what she thinks each piece of gear I own is valued at, which doesn’t seem so bad until you realize the most expensive thing she has ever bought herself was a MacBook Air. Just wait until she finds out I want the new Canon R5 Mark II. 

Do you have a GAS problem? Have you been through this, and if so, how did it go?

Note: No relationships were harmed in the making of this video; this was just for fun.