All I can tell you, Boris, is that when I was doing photography as a hobby through the 1990s and into 2001, I was spending as much as $2000 a year on film and processing. Moving to digital cameras in 2002 as my primary capture freed up a lot of my money (and time!) to do more photography.
I've always had all my photographic endeavors detailed in my accounting records, just like I have my automobiles, motorcycles and travel expenses ... It's just way to look at it and say to myself at the end of the year, "What have I been doing with my money all year? and was it worth it?" The photography always has been ... ;-) G On Jan 23, 2007, at 4:42 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > Gentlemen, there has to be a distinction made. It would be only > logical that the whole way of thinking of a person sells their > photographs and a person who is pure hobbyist are two totally > different kettles of fish. > > I made similar calc with my *istD. I see very little value in making > this kind of computation unless one is selling one's own work. It > would seem that Jens makes a sell or two every now and then ;-). Thus > for him it is very viable circumstance. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
