On Sun, Jul 07, 2013, Bipin Gupta wrote: > > And Aahz I wouldn't bother too much about Hobby Cost, as just holding > a camera gives me immense pleasure and happiness. Do ring in this > stress busting calculation into the costing. And I don't even make money > with my hobby.
Holding cameras gives me pleasure; carrying them around, not so much. And that's really the whole point: I'm not sure if I'm willing to carry a big camera and lenses around. Let's try another variation of my calculation: If I got the $3200 "base kit" and restrain my LBA, used the kit for twelve hours the first year and four hours each of the following two years, that's $3200/20 or $160/hour. That's a lot of money I could have used for something else. I certainly don't have enough money to just throw it around. I'm also suspicious that buying into a system would cause me to indulge my LBA, which would vastly increase the number of hours required to "pay off" the purchase. (Bigma, 35mm/2.6 macro, DA* 16-50, 50/1.4...) One advantage of m4/3 is that there's actually less scope for indulging LBA. ;-) > I too waited and waited for the "right technology". Bought a Minolta bridge > digital camera in 2003, till my daughter gave me a K20D in 2009. She said, > hey Papa, technology will keep overtaking you, get it now. > So why wait for another 5 or 10 years - a $ now may be 10 times in your > technology future. I'm not waiting for the right technology, it's already here (more or less). I'm waiting to figure out if I want to spend the money; more precisely, I'm trying to decide whether spending the money would be worthwhile. > Just my 2-cents, from a wise spender, a master mechanic and all things > photographic buzz; ah! and I forget, a retired old fart of an Advisor > in the worlds biggest conglomerate. Doesn't sound like a free sermon > I hope? It does, but I don't mind; I like cross-checking my thinking as long as other people are reasonably respectful of my opinions. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
