On Sat, Jul 06, 2013, Larry Colen wrote: > > Aahz, > > It's a damn good thing for you that you aren't into something like racing. > My first track time, 25 years ago, was at Bondurant, and it worked out > to something like $100 per hour of track time. In retrospect, that was > some of the cheapest track time I've had. If I were racing, and were > honest about my expenses, in a cheap to run class, and not trying to > win, I might be able to do it for as little as $300 per hour of track > time. $600 for a lens? That's just a weekend of racing, and since I'm > not racing these day... no problem! > > Then there's flying. One reason I never got my pilot's license is that > flying makes racing look cheap.
Yup, I know! And yet my primary and I are willing to fly to Wisconsin for a "weekend" convention that actually lasts four days; what with various medical issues and getting a little family time, that ends up being nine hotel nights, car rental, flights, etc, for several thousand dollars. Photo equipment comes out of a different budget, though. (In general, I prioritize spending time with people; if I start prioritizing photography differently -- higher -- that changes the equation quite a bit.) > More seriously, certain levels of performance come with a cost. With > some things, like sensors, the cost of performance gets cheaper over > time. The entry level K500 will outperform any APS sensor camera of > not that many years ago, and the full frame cameras from not long > before that. Other things, well I used to know someone with a .sig > that said "If it weren't for law enforcement and physics, I'd be > unstoppable". If you want a lens with certain capabilities, physics > says it has to be a certain size. Absolutely! I just need to feel comfortable with [paying the money for] that. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
