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 01/04/2007 12:39:54 AM · #26
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
Essentially, there is no limit.


Or a limit on "essentials" :-)
 01/04/2007 12:40:06 AM · #27
I did the scary math thing once, for insurance. It isn't pretty, better if you only see a few here and a few there.
01/04/2007 12:43:22 AM · #28
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
Essentially, there is no limit.

Or a limit on "essentials" :-)

Isn't it ALL essential?
 01/04/2007 12:43:52 AM · #29
Originally posted by _eug:
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
Essentially, there is no limit.

Or a limit on "essentials" :-)

Isn't it ALL essential?


Dont listen to eug - he's drunk
 01/04/2007 12:44:30 AM · #30
Originally posted by kirbic:
Well, I don't have a 500 f/4. That is on my list.


Okay, you are looking at a lens that's case costs half as much as my entire gear! That worries me...
 01/04/2007 12:44:50 AM · #31
Originally posted by ShutterPug:
Originally posted by _eug:
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
Essentially, there is no limit.

Or a limit on "essentials" :-)

Isn't it ALL essential?


Dont listen to eug - he's drunk


Its all essential and I'm almost sober! :)
 01/04/2007 12:47:45 AM · #32
Originally posted by ShutterPug:
Originally posted by _eug:
Isn't it ALL essential?

Dont listen to eug - he's drunk

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... They might hear you.
 01/04/2007 12:48:35 AM · #33
Originally posted by skylercall:
Originally posted by kirbic:
Well, I don't have a 500 f/4. That is on my list.


Okay, you are looking at a lens that's case costs half as much as my entire gear! That worries me...


It worries you???
 01/04/2007 12:53:00 AM · #34
It worries me that I might be there someday. My wife would die.

Edit: Oh, I get it. I didn't see that the word you was in bold. Hehe.

Message edited by author 2007-01-04 00:54:33.
 01/04/2007 12:55:16 AM · #35
Originally posted by idnic:

Its all essential and I'm almost sober! :)


*Passes Cindi another drink*

Now, go forth and buy that lens.
 01/04/2007 12:56:19 AM · #36
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by idnic:

Its all essential and I'm almost sober! :)


*Passes Cindi another drink*

Now, go forth and buy that lens.


OMG no, after what I just bought, I can't have another lense for like 234 clients! lol
 01/04/2007 12:59:08 AM · #37
Originally posted by idnic:
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by idnic:

Its all essential and I'm almost sober! :)


*Passes Cindi another drink*

Now, go forth and buy that lens.


OMG no, after what I just bought, I can't have another lense for like 234 clients! lol


Oh do tell...
 01/04/2007 01:15:37 AM · #38
It can cost you as little as $150 or it can have an infinite price tag.
Right now rough estimate I have about $8,150 rapped up in just a camera and some lenses. This don't include my tripod, head, filters, flash, bags, cards, etc. All in all, I would be in just under $10,000. And that's cheap probably compared to some here.
 01/04/2007 01:16:24 AM · #39
Originally posted by skylercall:
It worries me that I might be there someday. My wife would die.

Look on the bright side - you could bury her in that case. ;-)
 01/04/2007 05:04:46 AM · #40
Originally posted by skylercall:
Originally posted by kirbic:
Well, I don't have a 500 f/4. That is on my list.


Okay, you are looking at a lens that's case costs half as much as my entire gear! That worries me...


OMG, that must be one heck of a case!
 01/04/2007 05:12:40 AM · #41
It's got 3 zeros now and will probably have 4 by the end of the year...
 01/04/2007 05:32:15 AM · #42
one thing i've learned from my mentors is not to buy something today that you would want to upgrade tomorrow. do whatever you can to buy it right the first time. unless, that is, you would rather be an equipment swapper, spending more time on ebay than behind the lens, shooting ;-)

iow, learn how to get the most out of what you have while saving for what you really need.
 01/04/2007 05:42:33 AM · #43
Originally posted by skiprow:
one thing i've learned from my mentors is not to buy something today that you would want to upgrade tomorrow. do whatever you can to buy it right the first time.


This is just what I have been thinking. It is hard to resist though.

Message edited by author 2007-01-04 05:43:08.
 01/04/2007 05:43:58 AM · #44
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Originally posted by skylercall:
It worries me that I might be there someday. My wife would die.

Look on the bright side - you could bury her in that case. ;-)


Another expense.
 01/04/2007 07:28:06 AM · #45
Originally posted by _eug:
My wishlist looks like a B+H catalog... lol


You know the B&H site lets you have a wish list and it IS then a B&H catalogue :-) Very convient, just lets you list all the stuff with a little buy link next to them :-/
 01/04/2007 07:35:47 AM · #46
Originally posted by robs:
You know the B&H site lets you have a wish list and it IS then a B&H catalogue :-) Very convient, just lets you list all the stuff with a little buy link next to them :-/


That could be dangerous because they also accept PayPal.
 01/04/2007 07:40:02 AM · #47
This thread is sooo true... I have just got the 70-200 2.8 IS, after much discussion with the financial auditor (the girlfriend), after assuring her I wouldnt need another lens for ages after this one..

Oh, and the 17-40 that I want now.

Just in time for the Canon 7D when its announced in March.

And the 24-70 2.8 IS that is also going to be announced.

And the 100-400 4th gen IS F4.

And possibly a new flash.

Then some lights.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
01/04/2007 07:50:45 AM · #48
It's easy really you just have to make 1 or 2 sacrifices like errrr.

Don't pay the motgage
wear 1 pair of jeans and buy cheap trainers
eat 3 times a month
get people to call YOU!
Furniture??? what's that?
spend less time in the pub, say... only 4 days a week

Then you can buy all the nice gear you want.

I been kinda lucky really, I got the most of my stuff in Japan while I had a very well paid job, now in UK I'm on the sick and cannot even afford the petrol to drive to the camera shop. I have been selling my old SLOWER Nikon lenses and buying FASTER Sigma lenses. After several conversations with myself on the subject I have decided I do not need anything else really.

except-

a nice Manfrotto tripod and head
Sigma 120-300 f2.8
maybe an external flash and/or better strobes (i have interfit 150's X2)

I KNOW the fever when it hits, I got it BIG in Japan because I had the money to throw away, my house was paid for my car and even my main food was all supplied so I had cash to buy, I do not drink so it was ALL about camera gear and guitars..

I say.. if you WANT it so bad, get it, we only have 1 life, try to enjoy it to the best of you ability.
 01/04/2007 08:22:17 AM · #49
One thing I found about photography, it makes all the other purchases look like chump change. I buy $200 Asics running shoes (for running of course) a few times per year and I never blink. Before I started photography it would have made me cringe.

Same as when I bought my Xbox ($300) and my Xbox 360 ($500 + games). Didn't think twice.

Happy spending :)
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