If you were given $12k to spend on photography aka the GAS thread

I'd put it towards a PhD in photography ... it'd cover the fees in the UK!

(I'm partway through my MA degree with Magnum photographer Mark Power as a tutor - very challenging both with regard to theory and practice, but am loving it!)
 
Get a bunch of B/W film, fly to Europe, rent a motorcycle, ride all around and shoot.

Then fly to Japan, do the same. Fly to China, the same.

Then have all film rolls developed and scanned in by a lab instead of spending hours and hours doing that myself.

Then buy bunch of nice fibre paper and spend weekends in darkroom...
 
$12K ? That's bugger all money. Wouldn't even cover the cost of a refurbished Phase One P65 back.
 
A Pentax Digital 645 w/ Pentax-D FA 645 55mm f/2.8 lens, spend the rest on hookers and blow, shooting everything using available light, sell it to ViceMagazine, rinse, repeat.
 
Difficult.
I think either using my Yashica-mat 124, buying a good light meter like a sekonic 758 and the new plustek 120 scanner and a ton of slide film and bw film. And a good printer like the epson 3880 or the pixma pro-1 with a supply of ink and paper. Also a good tripod like a gitzo with a area swiss ballhead.
Or a D800e and a nikon 1.4 prime lens lineup and said printer.
Spend the rest of the money on trips to Scotland or Scandinavia or Italy or Ukraine (Pripyat)
 
digitalintrigue said:
I'd spend $12k on travel and use the gear I already have...
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This.

Assuming this isn't "cheating" in terms of the goal of the question.

If it is, I want to take a class in using large format cameras with movements. I don't think I want to purchase one, but I want to use one for a month and learn all about it instead of too much trial and error.

Then I'd get a Contax G 45mm converted to M (to match the 28 and 90 I already have) and a used Noctilux. I'd also get a second M6TTL with a 0.58x viewfinder.

If I had money left over after all of this, then I'd get a Razzle 900 4x5 camera.
 
Cheating? It is and it isn't. I wanted to know folks priorities. Wanting to have different things to photograph seems a very fair answer.
 
coelacanth said:
Get a bunch of B/W film, fly to Europe, rent a motorcycle, ride all around and shoot.

Then fly to Japan, do the same. Fly to China, the same.

Then have all film rolls developed and scanned in by a lab instead of spending hours and hours doing that myself.

Then buy bunch of nice fibre paper and spend weekends in darkroom...
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You are over your budget :angel:
 
Honestly - I would do maybe a bit of 'switching' in the gear department, but most of the money would go to a nice vacation or two with my wife.

I would NOT buy a Noctilux - I would have to get a camera too!
 
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