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 p.4 #12 · Roger tests the Tamron 70-200 F2.8 G2 | |
TooManyShots wrote:
Well..is getting off topics but in case you aren't aware, I hope most people visiting the FM message board have a full time job with a stable salary. This means that you earn the same regardless if you work 40 hours or 60 hours. Is not like if you decide to bring more work home and working OT you would get paid more. Hehehehehhe... Is all nonsense really to say that a full time staff should work more hours because he or she would earn more...Nah......  Now, if he or she decides to get a second job...that's another story. Again, if you are already busting your ass working in your hourly exempted full time job with a stable salary, you won't have times to get a second job to buy your precious Nikon 70-200 f2.8e or whatever. That person can save money buy spending less on other things. Or selling other gear.
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You're missing the point (two, really).
1) I happen to work from my home, and I also don't operate off a 'salary' but, rather, billable hours. I can work 140 hrs/month, if I want to be lazy, or I can put in 220+ if I feel like it. [I pretty much work day and night. E.g., I billed 230 hrs last month and still took a week off.]
2) For those salaried employees, the question is this: from whatever portion of your salary you can "save" to buy the Tamron 70-200 ... you can opt to "save a little longer" and get the Nikkor instead. The difference is "right now" mentality vs. "long-term" mentality.
As to the other question, the last guy posted, no, this does NOT only include Nikkor lenses. I could have bought the Nikkor 105mm Micro for $900, or the Nikkor 200mm Micro for $1800. Or I could have bought the Zeiss Makro-Planar 2/100 for $1900.
Instead, I chose to spend a little more and buy the 20-year old, vintage Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 APO-Lanthar Macro, for $2,500, which is better than all of them. Cost a little more, yes, but is better than all of them, also.
Now, had the Voigtländer been $10,000, I wouldn't have done it, but (to me) saving for a week or two longer ... to be 100% happy with my purchase ... was worth the extra time, patience, and money required to get what I *really* wanted ... as opposed to a cheap pretender (or even an expensive "second place." As I quoted earlier:
- "The bitterness of 'poor quality' remains long after the sweetness of 'low price' is forgotten."
~ Benjamin Franklin
If a Nikon owner wants to rush right out, the moment they have $1,200, and buy the Tamron ... knowing they have the "cheapo" ... they can be my guest. Different strokes.
However, my point is, if they save a little longer, and hit the "Buy Button" on the Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8E FL ED VR ... a couple of weeks/months later ... they will spend the next several years 100% content that they (literally) purchased the best zoom in that class money can buy.
It's a good feeling.
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