Forget the $3,000 - what would you buy for a grand?

"Retired... bought more cameras than ever..." Right. Dangerous.

With $1,000, buy a good/great lens for whatever system you are using the MOST today.
 
Prest_400 said:
Most probably to cover travel expenses and film+processing.

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I agree.

Except I would substitute professional lab printing services for "film+processing as I only use digital images (including those scanned from my film days).

If the answer has to involve gear then I would spend it on the Fujinon XF 50/2 and a small, soft-sided, high-quality camera bag for my X100T.
 
For $1000, I'd try to put together a more powerful desktop computer (with SSD, Core i7, 16GB or more). The work I'm doing now requires more RAM an CPU time than I have available. I'm image stacking up to 30 images. It might take two hours to produce a final set of 10 images.
 
I'd go for a Fujifilm X-Pro1 and 35mm f2. I love my Olympus E-M1, but the Fujis just look so good! I wouldn't want to run a Fuji and Olympus system, but if someone just gave me $1000, I'd just go for it.
 
$1000? Some Ilford Warmtone FB 16x20 & 20x24 (50 sheet boxes) & some more Formulary Ansco 130. A quick easy grand gone.
 
I have (notionally) budgeted $1,000 for comprehensive CLAs of my BP M4 and two 35/2.8 Summarons. What is left (if any) will go on film and processing, since I don’t process myself.

Otherwise, if I could buy more time to spend with my family and taking photographs, I’d just spend it on that.

Cheers,

J :)
 
This:
https://www.shambhala.com/hooked-745.html

I should probably pick up a print copy for myself, because although it's pretty easy to read, I think my understanding grows a bit each time I go through it.

Right now I am fussing with a Pentax P30T w/50/2 SMC Pentax lens and like it quite a bit. I paid $15 for the set (the Leica strap I'm using with it cost more!)
 
I'd go for glass for my XE-2. Odds are it would be a 18/50 or 23/50 set.

Then again, it could go a long way to hire a handyman to do work on the basement and free up time to get better with what I've got.

B2 (;->
 
Right now, I have all the photographic hardware and supplies I need.

I would probably put the $1000 in a tax-free municipal bond fund until I needed it to buy something.
 
I also always liked the Nikkormat cameras. Very well built, the best sounding shutter you can find, and while heavy, they fit your hand perfectly. But recently I tried to shoot people in a moving parade, and it was impossible to make focus adjustments, along with making exposure changes while trying to follow a moving target with a manual focus, manual exposure camera. Those lost shots cannot be replicated.

So I bought a Nikon N8008s w/ motorized film advance and AE to put my Leica Summicron on. It's the best shooter I have ever owned, and owning just a 35mm camera is fine w/ me, as the smaller and lighter cameras are much faster to shoot than medium format, and you can get shots with them that cannot be had w/ bigger, slower gear.

So my $1000 would be spent in two ways. $400 for a good enlarger and large sheets of Adox MCC 110 fiber paper. The other $600 would go for a short trip down to New Orleans in the spring or fall (summers and winters there are brutal) to do some street shooting and hear some great live music.

Or, just buy one of those Steiff nut cracker teddy bears thingies :]
 
No more accumulation of "stuff". I would buy a ticket to Mexico City and then Havana. In fact I'll be in MEX next month but not enough time for Cuba. I hope to do that next year via Paris.
 
I stand corrected...

I stand corrected...

pagpow said:
ozmoose said:
Ko.Fe,

In 2017 I shot just over 400 rolls of film, so a little less than one every day.

Dang it, that's another advantage you lot have over us southern neighbors. How'd you manage to get more days to the year than we do?:bang::)
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Huh. When you live in Tasmania, the days seem endless.

That, or too much good Tassie pinot!

Okay - so it's "a little more than one a day". I did fail maths in school...
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Up to you, mate

Up to you, mate

aizan said:
am i adding to what i already have, or am i starting from scratch?
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Just spend the G-note any way you like. Your decision.

We are just picking brains here. If nothing else, to give us some ideas about what people are shooting with and buying these days.

Film or digital, whatever pushes your button!
 
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