On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you ever noticed that the more money someone has invested in photo > gear, the more likely they are to say "It's not the camera, it's the > photographer"?
I wish you had of told me that a few years ago. I was under this more is better spell for some time, and bought over 16K of DSLR's between 2001 and 2011. These are now worth a combined $1800.00.:-) (and thats all i can do is just smile about it.) Dave > > So, if it's not the camera, now that K-3 prices have dropped a bit, > why do I want a K-3 so badly? It's not like I'll get any better photos. > > Seriously though, I really am planning on waiting to see what the next > thing they have in store is before committing. > > On the subject of spending money on gear, I ended up returning my 13" > macbook pro. It turns out that the screen was just too small for > comfortably editing photos. It turns out that there are three versions > of the 15" available (at least refurbbed). > > 1) The retina screen is the only one available at stores. You lose a > firewire port, but gain a second thunderbolt port. You lose the > optical drive and get an HDMI port. > The big drawback, other than cost, is that the memory is soldered in, > so you pay the apple tax on RAM, since you can't upgrade on your own. > > 2) Low res 1440x900 pixels > > 3) High res 1680x1050, this seems to be the one to get, but the > inexpensive ones seem to be gone from the apple store as of today, > all of the ones left charge the apple tax on memory and drive. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > 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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.
