Plus printer, ink, paper, mattes, matte cutter, frames, tent, portfolio rack, backup DVDs, etc......Another $3500? (over the last year & a half, but I've recouped most of those costs via sales)
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It is quite alright my friend. Please, let it bother you no more. Go in peace, we'll have dinner next week.
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I feel really happy about my expenditure of no more than $1500. I was determined to have good gear but not get caught up in a spiralling cost vortex. (see profile) I think I managed it. I love the camera and its lens and am not driven (yet) to needing anything else
Gosh, I go vote for a few hours and look what I miss! JP, dear, I think you're doing just fine without a sugarmomma. (Come to think of it, so is Rikki). But should you wish to temporarily relocate to Germany for a couple of years, there could be a deal to be made...
Sadly, we don't have interchangeable lenses, though.
Brett - get caught up in the spiral, dude! It's great fun! And it will make the rest of us feel a little less guilty.
D50 $370 (refurb)
18-55 $80 (refurb)
70-300 Tamron $129 (ebay)
My super sweet new Dynatran tripod that came today! $69 (ebay)
A Tamrac backpack that I got for my birthday from my wife. $80 (ebay)
A 512 SD card $12 (computer geeks)
Total $740
I have a few PC's I don't really count the cost of them because I would own them anyway. I also already owned photoshop 7 for a web business I ran a few years ago which I use sometimes.
And my new thing: All free software, gimp, picasa, and linux!
I know I don't have much "good" gear, but I feel that for the money I can really enjoy this hobby, and make some decent shots. This rig for me was a good way to get going, and when I get good enough to know what exactly the camera is or isn't doing that another model will, then I can upgrade. For now I am just learning.
Wanna hear something funny? I collect sports memorabilia and baseball cards. I actually have Ken Griffey Jr's rookie year batting helmet. Yes it's worth a fortune and no it's not even close to being the best piece I own. At any rate I have well over $70,000 in collectables and I NEVER touch them anymore. Haven't in over a year since I got this dreaded D70. My wife is sooooooo ticked off at me. I used to work almost 24 hours a day trying to chase stuff down to get my hands on it and now I won't even so much as dust it. It's criminal I tell you. Now I'm on this camera kick and shes going on and on about how I abandoned my last "Hobby" what makes this one different. She says I will spend a fortune on it and grow tired of it with in a couple of years. HAH!! I say I have been collecting sports since I was 10 years old and now I'm 41. Which mean I will collect camera stuff well into my 80's RIGHT?
I have OJ Simpsons rookie year card (+ tons more)....The Fantastic Four #'s 48, 49 n fitty...the KISS comic, printed with their own blood (that one's for Judi) guitars up the wazoo (Fendersons, Martinbackers..Epilectro's) ALL gathering dust while I've been hemorrhaging cashereenio on camera gear.
...and without question, it's been worth every single penny.
Hmmm....tough question! All up, because my wife has become involved with photography too I'd say it'd be close to $15,000(Aus) over the past 3 years! That'd include 2 slr's, lenses, studio lighting and backdrops, reflectors, memory cards etc. That amount doesn't include PC's, monitors et al!
JP, dear,... Sadly, we don't have interchangeable lenses, though.
The story of my life :(
But my little Powershot A40 could hang out with your Powershot....
Just remember:
OUR lenses are interchangeable, I live on the OCEAN, and:
I cook, I sew, I've learned to clean a house;
the plumbing's not a mystery to me.
I know enough to run a separate load
for denim when I sort the laundry out.
I understand the workings of a car.
I can drive boats. I've even flown a plane.
Withal, I'm just an utter paragon,
domestic virtue looking for a home,
because, in the dying world, there is no time...
(Throws hat in ring next to JP's)
R.
Oh yeah, money on camera gear? Geesh.... Going how far back? I've owned in film alone 3 Nikon F-bodies of various vintages, a Nikkormat, an Olympus OM-1, a Hasselblad, a Mamiya RB-67, A Linhof 4x5 view camera, a Sinar-P and a Sinar-F view camera, and a whole slew of Polaroids. I can't begin to count the lenses that go with those. Plus a whole studio full of lights, strobes, backgrounds, a darkroom, mounting gear, you name it. At least a dozen tripods. Gawd the list goes on and on.
But that's all gone now.
Since I went digital, I have progressed from Fuji Finepix 4900Z to Nikon Coolpix 5500 to the current Canon 20D with the 4 lenses listed in my profile. The Fuji and the Nikon set me back roughly $1000 each, the listed Canon gear cost me a little over 4 grand. Then there's the manfrotto tripod, the remote release, the 430EX speedlight, the polarizing filters, the LowePro bag, the tripod collar for the 70-200mm, more memory... So I guess I've added nearly another $1000 to that, making a grand total, in camera gear alone, of about $7000 just since I went digital...
On the other hand, I'm still running the same computer and PS 7.0, so I've saved some pesos there :-)
