This week, we’re talking about planning purchases — specifically, how do you determine what gear you want, versus what you need? Also, a recent gallery show inspires a discussion around editioning work and the value (or potential caveat) of arbitrary editions in a digital world. Plus, a new social media platform is gaining ground, but is it the new Instagram? Finally, a bit of gear talk musing over the latest offerings from Fuji and Sony. Isabel Magowan is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Forcible Entry Pro Bar- Halligan Pro Bar - - Amazon.com
  
• Ocasek
  
• Artwork | Paul Stanley
  
• Aaron Siskind Foundation Invites Applications for 2018 Individual Photographer's Fellowships | RFPs | PND
  
• Don McCullin speaks about the 50th anniversary of his photos from the Battle of Hue during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War in 1968 - The Washington Post
  
• The Online Photographer: Pentax's Big News
  
• Blurred Lines - Netflix
  
• Chinese woman joins handbag in X-ray machine - BBC News
  
• Fujifilm X-H1 versus X-T2: what does the new camera bring?: Digital Photography Review
  
• Sony launches a7 III: sub-$2000 24MP full frame mirrorless with a9/a7R III advances: Digital Photography Review
  
• Isabel Magowan (@isabelmagowan) • Instagram photos and videos
  
• Home - Isabel Magowan
  
• A Former Ballerina’s View of “The Nutcracker,” Home of Childhood Dreams | The New Yorker
  
• RESTRICTED AREAS - Danila Tkachenko
  
• As the largest diesel submarine of the Russian Navy was in the middle of the steppe in Togliatti - YouTube
  

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