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Gear Overspending Thread

Anonymous Sun 25 Sep 2022 16:06:44 No.4083413 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>4083417 >>4083438 >>4083443 >>4083458 >>4083602 >>4083801 >>4083827

Inspired by >>4083403,

1. How much have you spent on gear so far?
2. What would you have spent knowing what you know now?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Sep 2022 16:16:40 No.4083416 Report

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Like 500 dollars. Top
I only have a mtf a couple digishits, vintage lenses and soviet shit.

Thats enough for me

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Sep 2022 16:17:28 No.4083417 Report

Quoted By: >>4083421 >>4083437

>>4083413
Canon R6
2499
Canon RF 70-200
2799
Extra LPE6NH battery
$60
Battery grip
$300
2x SD cards
$200

5860 in total on my current setup. I wouldnt really change anything. I use the 70-200 for what I do more than anything.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Sep 2022 16:20:47 No.4083421 Report

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>>4083417
Add on $160 for a heliopan 77mm polarizing filter.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Sep 2022 17:16:05 No.4083437 Report

Quoted By: >>4083457

>>4083417
I'm starting to think that's the best way to combat overspending. Buy a trinity lens, but only buy one of them.

I bought cheaper lenses and more of them, in order to get more focal length coverage, but 90% of the time I'm only using the kit zoom, so instead I get worse image quality and worse ergonomics at a higher cost 90% of the time. That's just a bad deal, those 10% are just not worth it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Sep 2022 17:18:14 No.4083438 Report

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>>4083413
About 700 on a Canon 5D2
2 flashes and trigger, 120
About 500 on 6 lenses and a teleconverter
150 on a tripod
100 on various assorted accessories (batteries, filters, etc)

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Sep 2022 17:58:05 No.4083442 Report

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bout tree fiddy

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Anonymous Sun 25 Sep 2022 17:59:10 No.4083443 Report

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>>4083413
>1. How much have you spent on gear so far?
23k-ish
>2. What would you have spent knowing what you know now?
a tad less, maybe a couple of hundreds of cheap chink shit like lightstands and monitors that broke I wouldn't buy again

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Anonymous Sun 25 Sep 2022 18:30:58 No.4083455 Report

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I have a hoarder mentality and when I first got into LF photography, I bought a shitload of lenses I never used for my 4x5. In retrospect, I'd tell myself to buy a 150mm, 75mm, 90mm, 210mm, and 270 mm or 240mm. You don't really need anything else. Instead I'd got a 47mm XL, 58mm XL, 14", etc. I've only shot with each once or twice. Honestly, I should divest from half my shit, and all the expired film I'm sitting on, because I never shoot any of it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Sep 2022 18:35:08 No.4083457 Report

Quoted By: >>4083462

>>4083437
The only time I really see a purpose in a prime is for things like macro photography, Perspective control lenses, and your prime telephotos where you know youre going to be working at a relatively controlled distance from your subject.

I go out to twisty roads around my area and take pictures of motorcycles and cars so the distance to subjects varies too much for a prime.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Sep 2022 18:40:17 No.4083458 Report

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>>4083413
1. How much have you spent on gear so far?
ballpark of what I have currently and what I actually paid:
Bodies - $16,830
Lenses - $15,780
Misc Accessories - $2-3k
A decent chunk of that was with employee pricing discounts too.
2. What would you have spent knowing what you know now?
Probably would spend the same amount, but simplify down a lot of the old stuff to a few newer things.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Sep 2022 18:53:29 No.4083462 Report

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>>4083457
This, even portraits don't need primes when you have a 24-70 or 70-200 f2.8. At one point the shallow DOF just starts looking dumb, and for the light you probably want to have a flash anyway.

And zooms aren't really much softer than primes anymore either. The trinity zooms are all made like bags of primes now, sharper than the budget primes you would have to get to save any money over the trinity zoom.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Sep 2022 19:40:14 No.4083475 Report

Quoted By: >>4083477 >>4083581

I don't know why but the A7IV retails for $2000 USD in my country
I'm really curious as to how gear pricing differs internationally

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Anonymous Sun 25 Sep 2022 19:47:22 No.4083477 Report

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>>4083475
around 2190 usd here

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Sep 2022 20:45:15 No.4083496 Report

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Probably $10k throughout the past 13 years. Most of it is holding value (lenses) or has been sold at break-even prices to move on to the next thing. It was fun buying and selling using forums and paypal, but now that FB groups took over and the postage lines got long, I'd rather not deal with it any more.
I haven't bought anything new other than $20 old point and shoots the past couple years. It scratches the same itch and forces me to go shoot. Worth every penny.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Sep 2022 02:58:59 No.4083581 Report

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>>4083475
2,300 freedom dollars equivalent, body only. promo price up to sept 30.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Sep 2022 04:49:44 No.4083602 Report

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>>4083413
>Sub 5k
>Nothing my gear is worth 10k now lol

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Anonymous Mon 26 Sep 2022 19:32:09 No.4083800 Report

Quoted By: >>4083827

Everything I've bought from 2016 until now off the top of my head, probably missing a few things. Multiple listings of the same lens are because one broke and I bought a new one

Easily over $10k, probably closer to 20k. Yellow highlights are current gear

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Sep 2022 19:41:20 No.4083801 Report

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>>4083413
>1. How much have you spent on gear so far?
New stuff: 18'250.-
Old stuff: around 3000.- I guess

>2. What would you have spent knowing what you know now?
Same's :DDD

t. hoarder

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Sep 2022 21:36:28 No.4083827 Report

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>>4083413
>>4083800
To answer question two, only thing I'd have done differently is to buy gear in good working order, not gear with mild defects for cheaper. Not worth the cheaper price for the most part. I liked being able to experiment with so many different body/lens combos

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