You are my hero. I wish I had thought of this before I told my fiancee what focal length meant. Now she asks things like "is that the 35mm or the 50mm?" Worse still, she knows the 100-400 is a one-touch and the 70-200/2.8IS is a two-touch. No way I'd get away with two "big whites" now!
Time to get into rangefinders, I say! If you can suppress the laughter when she says "it's nice to see you saving some money buying that nice cheap little......Lie-kuh?", you're all set.
CKrueger wrote:
You are my hero. I wish I had thought of this before I told my fiancee what focal length meant. Now she asks things like "is that the 35mm or the 50mm?" Worse still, she knows the 100-400 is a one-touch and the 70-200/2.8IS is a two-touch. No way I'd get away with two "big whites" now!
Time to get into rangefinders, I say! If you can suppress the laughter when she says "it's nice to see you saving some money buying that nice cheap little......Lie-kuh?", you're all set.
However, there is something very pertinent to this system......my wife and I are both senior citizens.....so it's a race of eyesight against wits.....they are both goin' . ......the question is which goes first and who goes first.
A year or so back she could still tell a difference between the 15mm f/2.8 fisheye and the 28-70/f2.8......so she'd ask pointing at the fisheye: "Is that a new lens again ?'". In a situation like that my stock answer would invariably be: "No, my precious, that's that little cheap lens that came free with the camera."
WOW that camera bag must be really heavy for only 4 lens ;-). Personally I tell my wife about all my camera purchases. Now she doesn’t event blink when I say, “oh this lens is a K”. However she did start give me some hassle last week about the new 5D I am going to buy, while taking her to the airport. So I asker how much the 2 weeks in Paris and the 3 weeks in Budapest was costing. She responded by saying, “A new camera keep you amused while I’m gone just make sure you insure the new camera before you come over” ;-) You just have to know when to bring up these topics.
GeorgeK-NJ wrote:
Have everything shipped to the office. Any never take them all out at once!
Good points, George.
Except I ain't got an office any longer......I am retired.
However, no problem, I have a little subterfuge going there too, whereby all my new gear acquisitions come delivered to our home....nothing clandestine there,....except...
.....I have been telling my wife those are returned shipments of the same old lenses/cameras sent to Canon for repair.
Little wonder the poor old woman thinks that Canon makes the crappiest possible photographic gear on the planet because in the last little while my "three" lenses/camera have needed repairs every couple of months or so.
sorry to go offtopic, but wow andi- very nice portfolio on your website!
i was immediately won over by the first image, and knew right then that the rest of the portfolio would be worth visiting. i was not disappointed and find your images beautiful and fearless.
ted
bathman wrote:
OK, buy her a new dress, invite her for dinner, confess! Remember women are corruptible!
celsus wrote:
Now I am tempted to get the 300 f/2.8 (again).......as long as the hood is off I can pass it for the "big white" one. Alternatively, with the hood on I can probably say it's the 200 f/1.8 zoomed out.
The 300 isn't that far from the 200. Here's 400/2.8, 300/2.8 and 200/1.8;
I only have two lenses, Black and White. My wife has a LOT more handbags, vases, ornaments etc.... and she seems to leave all those out on display!!! Just imagine if we did that with lenses!!
Well, my wife just read this thread, laughed and said:
"Well if you want to buy another lens, all you have to do is let me know - and I can then go out and buy another pair of shoes..."
rachp wrote:
Glad to see you fellows working so hard at the art of "nag avoidance" - makes me feel like us ladies are doing our job
Sometimes I bring up the fact that she can't fit one more article of clothing into her completely stuffed closet. It buys a moments repreive before she launches in to the $$$ differential. And then I lose yet again...
Mike Abbott wrote: Well, my wife just read this thread, laughed and said:
"Well if you want to buy another lens, all you have to do is let me know - and I can then go out and buy another pair of shoes..."
Sounds like a fair deal to me
Well, Mike, you are onto something good here.
It's called the "principle of relativity".
I also let my wife take a peek at the FM Gear Forum proceedings.
Showed her the list of gear in Remford's signature. "See my precious, that's one veritable lens collector......in comparison, I am but a pauper with my four or so lenses."
Yes, that's how one ramps up the sense of "normalcy" and "acceptability" by using a comparison with the extreme.
Incidentally, y'all owe me $34.89 US each for rendering this sort of service to you. Again, we ain't talking conjugal deception, this is what's known as "change management".
(Should you require "crisis management" support service any time in the future, please feel free to call.)
Ted Choi wrote:
sorry to go offtopic, but wow andi- very nice portfolio on your website!
i was immediately won over by the first image, and knew right then that the rest of the portfolio would be worth visiting. i was not disappointed and find your images beautiful and fearless.
ted
oh wow, I must go and have a look, I want to see this!
thanks btw
celsus wrote:
A year or so back she could still tell a difference between the 15mm f/2.8 fisheye and the 28-70/f2.8......so she'd ask pointing at the fisheye: "Is that a new lens again ?'". In a situation like that my stock answer would invariably be: "No, my precious, that's that little cheap lens that came free with the camera."
You need to stop buying those nice internal zoom lenses. A lens that extends will throw her for enough of a loop that she will never be able to truly guess how many lenses you have.
My Sigma 70-300APO looks very impressive when extended to 300mm, in its "macro" range, with its hood on. 11.25" is enough to make you think it's a Bigma.
Once you have over 20 lenses and 3 bodies, even you yourself have problem telling them apart, and it will be impossible for your spouse to tell it is a 'new' lens in your hand.
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