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Ed Hutchinson wrote:WOW!!!!!! very nice!!!! someone got lunch!!!!!!!
I agree those lenses are great but at the moment i must consider price, that is why i was looking at the tamron 90mm 2.8 new it is the same price as a used nikor 60 mm 2.8 .
i still favor Nikon but one must be led by the money or lack thereof LOL
Ed
A question I frequently ask (not necesarily about camera equipment): who will know, or care, how much you paid for this lense next year??
The wife - if she gets to hear about it.
But you raise an interesting point.
Of course we need to have the cash to buy equipmet in the first place. And our budgets all vary.
But I have long been a believer in 'yesterdays money'.
Once its spent...its gone. If the item is one that will appreciate, then it doesnt matter. But most digital equipment depreciates faster than a rat down a drainpipe.
So I have always advocated recycling equipment you dont need as soon as possible. For me, hanging onto camera bodies like the film days doesnt work. Sure you get a big hit when you sell it...but that came the moment you carried it out of the store.
Its hard to suppress the feeling that the buyer is mugging you. Well that maybe true to an extent when its a buyers market. BUT I feel I am mugging myself leaving redundant equipment on the shelf until its worthless.
Selling, at least, part funds the next acquisition (softens he pain).
I also feel equipment can get in the way of taking photographs.
Having fewer items of equipment at your disposable fattens the wallet and sharpens the eye.
....and I have wandered off topic at a tangent.
:wtf:I need a holiday.
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Eric