Wednesday, April 23, 2008

You've gotta spend money to make money

So I as talking to the hubby last night about how much I want to make a go at photography. I was telling him that to make money, I need to be able to spend some money. Lenses, filters, flashes, memory, etc (I have a wish list a mile long)..... I mean we're far from being loaded and don't have the money to spend to purchase all these things at once. So he says, "well put back a certain amount per month in savings to go towards photography." As it accumulates I'll buy the things I need.

My first purchase is definitely going to be a flash. Not sure if I'm going to get the SB-600 or the SB-800. Not sure if I need the bells and whistles of the SB-800 yet, so I'll probably go with the first one. Then the next thing will be the 50mm 1.8. Everyone in the Nikon D80 Flickr group is raving about how great the lens is at such an inexspensive price.

1 comment:

Virgil said...

If your looking to do this professionally, why not go for a Nikon D300. It's a nice 12 megapixal camera that runs about $2,500 (kit with lens). Actually, Best Buy has the D300 marked down to 2,300 right now.Just a thought, 12 megapixals will enlarge to poster size with little loss of detail. You might want to consider a really good printer in the future. There are printers for under $500.00 that make very nice enlargements.


Virgil

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