Mark. That wouldn't take much, would it, to exeed the purchase price. I mean a fine DSLR doesn't cost much more than I would expect to make i a couple of weeks. For one months pay you can buy a mighty fine outfit. Perhaps a *st D, all the "apertureringless, dedicated lenses and a flash - enough for starting out as a pro. If I could earn no more than just "my money back", I wouldn't call myself a pro. Just a lucky hobbyist. I would consider the camera a pretty bad investment.
In Denmark we usually say, that creating one job will cost app. 1 million Dkr (170.000 USD). So I guess photgraphers are very lucky to be able to start out with an investment of cosiderably less than that. What I understand as a pro camera is a camera, that is generally acceptet as an obvous choice of a substantial fraction of photographers. Different photographers use different gear: A photo journalist may use a Nikon or a Canon "35mm" DSLR. A nature photographer may prefere a Leica or a Contax. A portrait or studio photographer may prefere a Hassie, a Rollei or a Mamiya. A fashion or advertisment photographer may prefere a Petnax 6x7. If we want to know what makes the photographers choose, the way they do, we should simply ask them. I'm sure someone must have done such a research before. It's just a matter of finding it! I once met a photographer who made advertisement photographs for Carlsberg beer. He traveled the world to do so. He had local film crews "light up" the scenery at the various locations. For a single photograph, this would cost him much more than his Pentax 6x7. I asked him which lenses he had. He said: What do you mean? I have them all, of cource! And several bodies and a third party Polaroid back as the basic outfit. Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 17. november 2004 01:50 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: What make a camera a pro camera? A PDML member named Dan Scott (still on the list?) summed it up best when he stated that a pro camera is any camera whose income generation exceeds its purchase price. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
