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 p.4 #11 · p.4 #11 · Fuji GFX 100 II and new lenses - Pre-order / Shipping Thread | |
I just realized that I left out part of a recent post. I'm deleting the original and updating here:
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BrandonSi wrote:
Same as anything else really, either make a lot of money or save it over time.
In my experience, two broad categories of photographers buy such camera. (OK, maybe more than two...)
1. Professional (as in full-time or making significant partial income from photography) who are persuaded that their specific sort of photorgrahy will benefit from the gear and who do some level of cost/benefit analysis before buying. A friend who uses a camera in this range moved to it as an economy move when his Phase One back died (the new Fujifilm was less expensive than replacing the Phase One back), and because his comparative tests showed that the quality of prints from the Fujifilm files at sizes he often prints would be very good.
Most folks in this category that I know don't rush out and buy every new camera or lens, and they tend to keep and use the same gear through more than one upgrade cycle. Switching sooner than that simply doesn't make photographic or budget sense.
2. Photographers with rather deep pockets seem more prone to upgrading to the newest thing regardless of the actual cost/beneft relationship. In my part of the world there are a whole bunch of folks who made a lot of money in the tech world and/or via investments who have the wealth to buy photographic toys without much concern. (To be honest, some of them have turned into pretty good photographers and a small number have actually made photography a career.) But the bottom line is that purchase decisions for these folks don't have to be entirely rational or cost/benefit based at all.
(I'll keep the details vague, but here's one fun story. A person I knew many years ago was anything but wealthy – the opposite of that actually. We fell to of touch until some years later I ran it not his person again. My acquaintance had a very expensive and exotic camera system — way beyond anything that Fujifilm offers — and offered to loan it to me. This person had bought it somewhat casually, not really quite understanding what it was and wasn't good for, and wasn't quite sure even how to use it... but was a generous sort. How did this come about? At just the right moment my friend had invested a tiny sum of money in something that unexpectedly turned out to be unbelievably valuable, and had sold it to a Big Tech Company for more money than most of us can imagine. You might actually have heard of or even used this thing...)
OK, one more.
3. Folks who, for whatever not-all-that-photographic reason, are compelling to get the newest shiny thing no matter what it costs and whether or not its potential benefits are going to make any difference in their photography at all. In many cases, it can seem like the photographic benefits aren't really the thing — it is more about "having the best" or some kind of status signifier. They have (usually, I think...) enough money, large enough credit limits, and/or poor enough financial management skills that nothing will stop them. These are the kinds of folks who ask questions like: "I have the Sony A1 and $25k in lenses that I like to use for photographing my family vacations and kids soccer games. I hear that the New WhopperMatic XT 548 Mega Cam with its 300MP 6"-square sensor and the SuperIguanaDon 50mm f/1 lens will "blow the Sony out of the water. I'm thinking of getting one for my sports photography!"
;-)
Folks can, of course, spend their money in any way they wish.
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