slau wrote:
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.
Yeah, but I do have over 20 lenses and three bodies (13 L's and 9 EF(S) ones) .....I can tell them apart awlright.......it is only the visually discrepant ones that catch my wife's eye these days....like that cursed barrel of a lens the 200 f/1.8 and probably the 300 f/2.8 (future) with the hood on.
celsus wrote:
Yeah, but I do have over 20 lenses and three bodies (13 L's and 9 EF(S) ones) .....I can tell them apart awlright.......it is only the visually discrepant ones that catch my wife's eye these days....like that cursed barrel of a lens the 200 f/1.8 and probably the 300 f/2.8 (future) with the hood on.
Have you though about getting some of the camouflage jackets for them? Then they wil all look the same again !
my solution to the whole mess is i date a photographer, so when i buy a $1000 lens or a $4000 body all she says is that shes jealous that she doesnt have one yet.
Go with the 500mm, you will NOT regret it... Well, hehe, that is if you can keep it out of sight of your "better half", which is virtually impossible. ;-)
Figure out what she wants: David Yurman braclet, diamond anniversary band, diamond tennis braclet. Put said item in your camera bag and next time she is commenting on your big white or red ringed chunky one, remove the item for her. Now to do this well, I recommend "stocking up" get a few new lenses; think "make the crime fit the punishment." Above all, have fun
Okay, being female... I won't offer you any advice. But I will tell you this is the hardest I have laughed for a long time. This was just to entertaining. Thanks for the laughs.
Figure out what she wants: David Yurman braclet, diamond anniversary band, diamond tennis braclet. Put said item in your camera bag and next time she is commenting on your big white or red ringed chunky one, remove the item for her. Now to do this well, I recommend "stocking up" get a few new lenses; think "make the crime fit the punishment." Above all, have fun
Paul, I think your youthful innocence regarding women shows......
My much better half does not need any more material things from me after almost 50 years of "you know what". What she needs and cherishes more than sweetness of honey is even the slightest reason to nag and torture me lovingly, in the well proven manner of the Nan-King water drip method.
shelleyc wrote:
Okay, being female... I won't offer you any advice. But I will tell you this is the hardest I have laughed for a long time. This was just to entertaining. Thanks for the laughs.
Thanx Shelley... gosh, men are such funny, hapless creatures, aren't they.
Indeed, the JFB's literary reference to Odysseus and his Cyclopean episode has left me kinda startled......here we have a photographer who is ostensibly well versed in Homer.
Get a 1.4x TC and a 2x TC. (The 2x isn't as bad as some claim.) Do it openly. Those extra Tcs will make your current lenses all kinds of different sizes which will totoaly confuse the heck out of almost anyone. After a while, you can just say that this "new" lens is an "old" lens with a TC.
Buy the next lens but give it to a friend and arrange for him to arrive on your doorstep to return the lens he "borrowed" from you for a special event.
(1) The TC stratagem has been in operation for some time now. The 2.0x is relatively efficaceous. The 1.4x is not....it's smaller than my wife's visual resolving power. However, the TC's are "legit"....our family code-name for them is "magnifying filter"..... estimated purchase price about $40 (new).
(2) Alas, once I did get caught......my wife stumbled on the 50 f/1.4 hood with the bill. Yup, at that time I came very close to having my lifeline credit card taken away from me for reasons of intellectual infirmity.
(3) "Confusion factor" is the key.
*My gear storage is based on a decentralized pattern. No more than 2-3 lenses in one place.
* Gear modularity is of high value to me. E.g., removable hoods, battery grips, tripod mount collars, TC's, etc.
* Metamorphing gear is splendidly suitable for my purpose: e.g., "push-pull" zoom, integral hood, etc.
I pretend to have a 2-3 lens systems, but my wife knows I don't -- too many boxes, she's far too perceptive. She just overlooks that fact and shakes her head.
.....I can tell them apart awlright.......it is only the visually discrepant ones that catch my wife's eye these days....like that cursed barrel of a lens the 200 f/1.8 and probably the 300 f/2.8 (future) with the hood on.
Have you though about getting some of the camouflage jackets for them? Then they wil all look the same again ! 
