> I also discovered that everything photography touches becomes expensive. > Off-camera flash extensions for $50? I know something about the price of > connectors and cable, and $50 is outrageous! $35 for a cable switch at > B&H which would cost me $10 to build with Radio Shack parts if only Radio > Shack carried the right connector, or if only it used a mini-audio plug > instead of whatever it is that it uses. Smallish camera bags for $120, > and so on. And that 250-600mm zoom that goes for around $8000... Ugh.
So true Greg. Same thing in the darkroom..."photo grade" chemicals can cost 10x what non-photo-grade equivalents do, and sometimes there's no difference at all, other times no effective difference. Even graduates and bottles cost more when they're for photography. I once did an article about saving money in the darkroom by buying generic items to replace market-specific ones, but the magazine I was working for wouldn't run the article. No need to look very far for the reason...most of the magazine's advertisers were in business selling the photo-specific versions...for more money, of course. <g> --Mike
