How much do you spend on average a year on equipment?

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I just thought I would ask the question as I have only had my camera for almost a month and it seems you can buy something everyweek for the rest of your life and never run out of things to add-on to existing equipment.

You dont have to give a break down but what do you think you have roughly spent or will spend during 01/01/08 to 31/12/08 :nuts:
 
Too much.

I think around 1200 in my first year.
 
Only started in April and so far I've spend £2,000. Still need to buy a new tri-pod, head and mono-pod. Next year the only thing I'll be spending is time at the track and out and about taking pivs.
 
I dred to think lol, 1dmk3, 16-35mk2, 500Lis, Gitzo 3540LS
RRS BH55 head, L brackets, lens plates and loads more and thats just this year..:cuckoo::cuckoo:
 
This year will be my most expensive, as I bought a D700 back in July and I expect to pay for a Canon 5D MKII next week, so that's about £3k all ready just on bodies!
 
prob around 3/3.5k this year, first year to, so hopefully from now on as i have lenses it will remain around 500 a year from now lol
 
£30 on a tripod
£50 on a 400D and nify fifty and kitlens and a heap of other stuff.
£25 on other accersiores

A cheap year for me :)

A huge thank you to Canon Bob, RH1944 and Flash in the Pan who all were extremly genourous :)
 
not been going for long but inc getting my D60 in June so far I've spent a little over £900, a drop in the ocean in comparison to some of you guys!
 
Matt Sayle said:
£30 on a tripod
£50 on a 400D and nify fifty and kitlens and a heap of other stuff.
£25 on other accersiores

A cheap year for me :)

A huge thank you to Canon Bob, RH1944 and Flash in the Pan who all were extremly genourous :)
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And how much for the appalling joke book you keep subjecting us to? :D
 
Jayst84 said:
Hehe, don't kid yourself :p I spent about 2 grand first year, that's going to be more than doubled this (second) year. :D
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i can live in hope as the figure i mentioned has chance to go up before the end of the year :lol:

hepburn said:
And how much for the appalling joke book you keep subjecting us to? :D
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priceless :lol:
 
About £8,000 in the past 2.5 years for three bodies, nine lenses, two flash guns, a CF tripod and hydrostatic ball head, lightweight laptop and a host of accessories including grips, light stands and brollies and the general nik-naks (bags, cleaning stuff, CF cards, QR plates etc. etc.) one needs. Planned expenditure for the next 12 months is nil, unless I decide to get a 500mm f/4 in which case that'll be another £4,000 or so. The release of a 1D4 might also tempt me to part with some cash.

Before I started on this DSLR malarky I was making do with a Sony P&S and, before that, a Sony camcorder did double duty as my stills camera. I've had some catching up to do :)

p.s. When I bought my first DSLR (30D+17-85 lens for £1100) the alternative option Iwas considering was a Panasonic FZ30 for around £340 quid. If I had gone that route I'm not sure my photography would have taken off in the way it has, either as a hobby or professionally. I'm glad I got the 30D :)
 
I'm averaging just £28 per week this year. It's still more than many people in the world have to live on.
 
about £9000ish in almost two years. Could easily double that if it wasnt for self control....:bonk:
A bit of advise, find a particular kind of photography that you like that only 'needs' one good quality lens. Get into something that you always want extra reach and its never ending....:lol:
Oh and just you wait until you start buying bags! (camera bags that is!)

Kev.
 
Hard to say as tend to trade-in when I want new stuff, but this year I spent £700 on my Nikon D90, I did get a Sigma 120-300 2.8 as well but that was through trading in two lens I had bought second-hand previously.

It can be done on the 'cheap', though. My Nikon D50, Nikon 80-200 2.8 AF-S and Nikon 300mm f4 cost me £1000 in total (all second hand), the actual list price for all of that brand new (at the time I had it) was well over £2000. Fortunately the funds for most of that came through a few photographic competition wins (I sold the items I won to fund the stuff I wanted)

I've been pretty shrewd/lucky though, I now own a Nikon D90, Nikon 50mm 1.8 and Sigma 120-300 2.8 (about £2600 worth in total) but my actual overall photography expenditure (i.e. money I've personally saved) from the day I bought my Nikon D50 just over two years ago has been about £1000 tops.
 
This year, total expenditure is around £12k, but that's countered by selling previous set-up (£9k).

Next year, unless Nikon release some more new AF-S primes I don't expect to spend anything.
 
This is my 1st year in photography so had to start from scratch. Basically bought a Nikon D80 afew lenses, bag, tripod, filters, books, battery grip, and some fun excursions. Will add up to nearly 2k I reckon and I am skint, but I hadn't had a hobby I enjoyed so much in years, so it is well worth it for me.
 
Close to £5k this year. Although the good news is as far as lenses go there isn't really much more I am after.

Unfortunately photography isn't the only 'luxury' I like to spend lots of money on, so the spending probably won't stop lol
 
About £500 this year, for a 400D body, 3 CF cards, UV filter and a nifty fifty lens. That will be doubled to £1K in the next few weeks when I buy my 120-400mm Sigma lens.
 
Difficut one! The camera came with a couple of secondhand and one new lens, it turned out hat I needed a faster lens so I bought a Sigma from on here but sold one of the others to pay for it. Since then I have inherited 2 lenses and a camera so by selling those lenses and the ones I already had I have been fortunate to upgrade to L lenses without having to put much (if any) money into it. My purchases this year have cost perhaps £300 :shrug: which is stuff like memory, filters, tubes, cleaning stuff, a 50mm 1.8 and a couple of books - nothing particularly exciting :lol:
 
Started in June spent about 2.5k so far now looking for a D300 so its gonna be well over 3k,hopefully i'll calm down a bit then:lol:
 
A year? Well last year I spent well over £1500 on kit, and I'm a student! This year alone, about £1000. :/
 
Emita, you certainly are getting value from your purchases. Your flickr portfolio is excellent. I especially like your images of performers... They are great!
 
£4000 maybe £5000 if there is specific kit I need, I've been doing this for years and would love to know how much I've spent:shrug: I do keep some of my older kit, I still have my Canon 10d which is a really good workhorse, I've had it for 5 years ish, my pre digital kit has albut disappeared now, I sold it to a very good friend for a very low price, as I've said elsewhere I don't rip people off:thumbs:
 
This year:

Paid out on stuff: Around £2100
Made on sales of gear: £280

So i have spent £1820 so far this year. :)
 
This year, not a lot. IIRC, all I've bought for myself was a lens at £220. Of course, there's ink and paper to add to that but that comes under consumables rather than capital expenditure.

I've also bought a little laptop so I can do some editting while on holiday as well as having some portable storage and net access should I want or need it. That was £280.

Next year might see a D700 (or its replacement) if I'm feeling flush! Film and scanning's all very well but there are times when I've almost forgotten what's on a film by the time I've finished it!
 
12 -24 tokina & Filter £310
50 mm 1.8 £75
Manfrotto 055CF tripod £190
Gigaview pro £350
Battery grip & Battery's £100
Filters £300
Books £150
Bag £100
Nas Drive £500

It works better when your paying out in bite size chunks and forget what you have bought over the year!!
 
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