>>2986051Was it hard? Sure I would say it takes dedication and business know-how and several years to build up sales. I think the lifestyle I have now is not necessarily harder or easier than the full time job I had before though. However, it is far more enjoyable.
I work for myself, my money all comes through customers that I find and mostly through print sales. In a way that means my customers fund my trips. As far as making enough money that's a totally different subject. I don't need much money at all to live because I've planned things out, buy things with cash that I can actually afford, and don't have the classic American debt problems. I live very comfortably and don't have to worry about money, but I typically didn't have to when I had lower income jobs either. Money is far more about habits than the actual income dollar amount. It's not a lot of money, but it is the good life.
And sorry but I don't typically do portfolio critiques, I'm sure /p/ would be happy to tear you a new one in a delightfully charming way.
>>2986073I've never used one at all, but I'm sure they are fantastic. I've never been on any discussions on
photo.net so it must have been someone else. That's a plenty large sized negative to get some great detail out of it and I can't imagine the lenses suck at all. Without doing research, I know there are several versions of each and I thought people have mentioned the lenses got better as they were newer (probably multicoated for flare, etc) but I can't imagine there's too many soft lenses. Slow, yes, but probably not too soft. If you do buy one I'm sure you could resell it for what you bought it for. I bet you'll end up loving it. MF rangefinders are a ton of fun as a travel camera.
Here's some Ektar.
