On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:15:58 +1000, Tanya Mayer Photography wrote: >Ok, soooo, here's my thinking: > >As a result of this great booking that I have from the Middle Eastern >couple, I am going to have a little bit of extra money floating around. Of >course, my immediate thought was to go straight out and buy myself the >*istD. Then, I stopped, and stood back to consider it for a while. And >here are my plans... I will have about au$2k to "play with"...
Tanya, How about renting a PC for about $22-$30 per week http://www.cworld.com.au (or one of many other places). As it's renting you can claim the cost back off your tax and it's not an immediate outlay. Get the *istD whoever you want to do it. If you can rent it with a $1000 deposit then that sounds good if you have the money to start it off. Also a tax deduction. Buy 2 1 gig CF cards and buy a USB2.0 card reader (you need the speed of USB2.0 to transfer the data so you can reuse the card - 1 gig card holds about 68 RAW format images and would take at a guess about 15 minutes to transfer). Check out http://www.powerinnumbers.com.au they have good prices. I've bought from them and they are close to me and if you have any problems I'll go and see them personally on your behalf. Consider an Epson photo quality A3 printer if you have money left over. It's how I'd do it on a budget. Leon http://www.bluering.org.au http://www.bluering.org.au/leon
