WmPat wrote:
I think that would be a good thing for photographers/consumers. The rental outlets give us an alternative to shelling out the big bucks for items we may not need to have on hand at all times.
Thanks for the article Roger C.
Of course, renting is the only way I can see me (and alot of other people) using most of the big whites.
I'm not doubting the article or the rental co. its just a possitive spin on a situation.
I also dont doubt that the rental co's have just as much problem sourcing lenses when stuff gets damaged. I think a guy from lensrentals is a member here and he posted a thread about a 600L that went for a full swim in a creek with pictures that would make most of us cry
"Spec up a Dell laptop to Macbook/Pro equivalence, and typically you will find that the Mac is cheaper"
No offence, I am usually very impressed by your posts on photography, but .....
Hmmm. VERY very sceptical indeed about that. Can Apple do me a dual core processor, 4 gig ram and a 17 inch screen for around £550. I don't think so. Dell can.
mac pc again. Do people in Chev's get mad because people in BMW or Mercedes 'waste' there money? Yes the ones that don't get it, fine drive what you like to drive. Let there be choices lol. mmm back to lenses....
pixelman wrote:
mac pc again. Do people in Chev's get mad because people in BMW or Mercedes 'waste' there money? Yes the ones that don't get it, fine drive what you like to drive. Let there be choices lol. mmm back to lenses....
Removed... not worth battling over the parts used in one chevy vs another.. Everyone uses the EXACT same parts, macs and pcs alike....
Point is choice is good, don't sweat bullets over other folks use of there doe Jimmy. Perhaps an auto comparison isn't the best example of management perfection at the moment. It's more the concept of big and loud smacking around minorities that I'm not such a fan of. Broader mind spaces helps.
Apple uses same exact parts found in any pc, but they spend $5 more on "finish" and charge a lot more; it fools most people.
Mostly true, but not entirely. Apple does use a lot of widely available components. But they don't just slap them together. They also have a pile of engineers, and they do develop their own motherboards, and some other custom circuitry. One area that was covered with the release of the Unibody 17" with inbuilt battery was the effort that they put into design their own batteries by assembling components, as well as the code and circuitry around it to tweak the charging process to get as much life out of the cells as possible.
So yeah, at a high level, Macs are just PCs, but if you dig a little deeper, you'll find that Apple does actually undertake innovative engineering - the same cannot always be said of PC vendors... (of course there are some innovative PC vendors as well)
I'm just afraid that now the stocks have been more or less depleted, we're entering a vicious circle that will hamper economic recovery. Everybody's been reducing stocks like crazy by reducing production, even when consumer spending (apart from automobiles and housing) hasn't slumped that much in most of the world. Especially the suppliers of raw materials at the end of the line have been hit hard. To get production back on line, they need to invest as their customers will only pay after 45 or 60 days; to invest they need money from the banks but their balance sheets haven't looked that great these past months so the banks aren't willing to lend (and I'm not even considering the banks' own balance sheets here). Catch 22...
timbop wrote:
Emile - you've hit it right on the head.
Anyway, it kind of reminds me of the Jimmy Carter "Stagflation" days of the 70's.
Anyone else remember those? Er, I mean I read about it in a history book!
I remember. The main difference, IMHO, was that in the 70's we kinda felt like we were all in it together, the whole nation. This time around the feeling is that many are suffering while some are laughing at us for letting them rip us off so badly. One thing that both have in common is the attempts to shift blame onto the government when corporate greed is much nearer to being the root of the problem.
that I'm not such a fan of. Broader mind spaces helps.