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Pete73 wrote:
Any speculation on price? They look great but also expensive.
matejphoto wrote:
Compared to what people spend on luxury cars I think photography is a fairly cheap hobby. The difference between a Honda and a BMW can easily be $20-30K. For $30k you can buy a whole canon outfit (outside of big whites). And I see people driving luxury cars in my town all the time.Yet whenever I pull out a 5D + 70-200 people think I am made of money.
dmacmillan wrote:
I have a friend who competes in bass fishing tournaments. He hauls his $50,000 bass boat to the lake with an $80,000 pickup truck. BTW, he's a GS11 and his wife is a GS13.
Whenever I get G.A.S. I remind my wife of my friend.
So combined they make over $120K US ($150K CAD, from my POV), ignoring any locality adjustment. Depending on where they live, their taxes/cost of living might be reasonable, too... It's prioritization. For me it's camera gear, others it's boats, cars, stereos, etc...
And who actually buys those vehicles (rather than leasing)? Sure, they're still expensive. But I suspect most shop based on monthly or bi-weekly payments and swap for the next shiny thing when the period is over. With camera gear, my feeling is leasing is extremely rare. Maybe a bit more common for working photographers, but still probably rare. So to drop $10-20K on a decent but not extravagant system will seem like a lot to others. A decent Leica system will come close to that boat.
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