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Right if you had £1000 to spend on a camera what would it be and why?
 
A Nikon D3. To finally put the 'Canon or Nikon' question to bed - at least for me!
 
minnnt said:
What do you shoot? Do you already have anything?

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Nikon D3200 but this was a post to see how others would spend their money too if that all they had. Interesting to see others opinions .
 
Anything that I can sell for almost as much, and spend the money on a lens :)
 
Sony A7 as its very good value for money :)
 
Gaz said:
Right if you had £1000 to spend on a camera what would it be and why?
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Depends on what I had at the time, but would probably be that lens I wanted, but couldn't afford / justify getting :)
 
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I've got the camera i want so it would probably be a fuji 16-55 f2.8 and a grip.
 
I'd buy some photographs by artists I admire, such as Chris Friel.
 
A Fuji XT-1. I'd like something small that I could take everywhere.
 
£1000 will buy you a return ticket to almost anywhere in the world (if you are flexible on dates) so take your choice.

I would rather go to Indonesia with my camera phone than spend £1k on camera equipment if that meant I couldn't go somewhere amazing to take photos with it.
 
The thing is, that I've realised, is that the experience outways anything and any reasonable photo will invoke the memories of the experience. Even phones these days are competent in most areas. although my 5d mk3 makes it easy for me to get the image, most of the time I'm shooting with a single lens.
It doesn't even have to be a trip abroad. £1k is a couple of weeks of unpaid time off work for a lot of people, there's so much to see in this country.
Whilst I can't do a Daniel meadows, take a bus around the country, I have for the last 5 years taken time off and slowly explored the coast of Pembrokeshire, taken long weekends away in uk towns and cities.

It's taken me a while, I've been lucky but never overly materialistic, although I like nice things, but experiences, opportunities, time, travel and looking back on the images to reinvokie those memories. Print them, create a photo album, photo book, get them out and look at them occasionally.
 
Definitely a DJI Phantom 3 Advanced. Ok so it's primarily a drone but it's got a camera attached so that counts right???
 
Nikkor 70 - 200mm f4. Going to Osberton Horse Trials next weekend and this would prove rather handy.
 
- Wildlife Heritage Foundation Workshop
- Weekend in Wales with trips to Skomer
- Ticket for the Goodwood 74th Members Meeting
- Long weekend in NYC
 
Nawty said:
£1000 will buy you a return ticket to almost anywhere in the world (if you are flexible on dates) so take your choice.

I would rather go to Indonesia with my camera phone than spend £1k on camera equipment if that meant I couldn't go somewhere amazing to take photos with it.
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I wouldn't bother with Indonesia personally, they're too busy burning their forests to ash causing a huge smog across most of Asia, ruined all my photos in Borneo, Hong Kong and Singapore over the last few weeks!

Otherwise for once I completely agree :)
 
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Byker28i said:
The thing is, that I've realised, is that the experience outways anything and any reasonable photo will invoke the memories of the experience. Even phones these days are competent in most areas. although my 5d mk3 makes it easy for me to get the image, most of the time I'm shooting with a single lens.
It doesn't even have to be a trip abroad. £1k is a couple of weeks of unpaid time off work for a lot of people, there's so much to see in this country.
Whilst I can't do a Daniel meadows, take a bus around the country, I have for the last 5 years taken time off and slowly explored the coast of Pembrokeshire, taken long weekends away in uk towns and cities.

It's taken me a while, I've been lucky but never overly materialistic, although I like nice things, but experiences, opportunities, time, travel and looking back on the images to reinvokie those memories. Print them, create a photo album, photo book, get them out and look at them occasionally.
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All my trips get printed into a book, I love occasionally sitting down slowly mooching through them over a good freshly brewed coffee :) Visitors love them too and it's a really nice way to show my photos when they're printed out so nicely.

For me, I'd spend £1,000 on a week or so in Yosemite, it's next on my list ;)
 
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For me, I'd spend £1,000 on a week or so in Yosemite, it's next on my list ;)
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Just come back. Depends on how much walking you want to do and the time of year you go as to how long you want to stay there. There's only water really in Spring over the main waterfalls, mirror lake had dried up, but stunning views everywhere, such blue skies. I really should put some photos up, but a tester:
 

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Byker28i said:
Just come back. Depends on how much walking you want to do and the time of year you go as to how long you want to stay there. There's only water really in Spring over the main waterfalls, mirror lake had dried up, but stunning views everywhere, such blue skies. I really should put some photos up, but a tester:
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Great stuff, exactly the reason I want to go :)

I'm presently in New Zealand where I'll now be until the end of October, can very much recommend it here, the most beautiful country I've been to!
 
We did San Francisco, Yosemite, Sequoia, Bakersfield (nights stop half way), Death Valley, Vegas. Was planning a day to visit grand canyon etc but wife was too 'rocked out' and doesn't like heights so the helicopter was out. In hindsight should have done montery bay on the way to yosemite.

Long weekend in Gower next weekend and the following weekend a few days in Anglesea :D
 
Byker28i said:
We did San Francisco, Yosemite, Sequoia, Bakersfield (nights stop half way), Death Valley, Vegas. Was planning a day to visit grand canyon etc but wife was too 'rocked out' and doesn't like heights so the helicopter was out. In hindsight should have done montery bay on the way to yosemite.

Long weekend in Gower next weekend and the following weekend a few days in Anglesea :D
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I've done Vegas and flew to the Grand Canyon from there via helicopter, it was pretty amazing I must say. If like to go back, and view it from the river next time (maybe one boat along the Colorado River), I think that would be a different way to see (and shoot) it!
 
Camera....another 1DmkIV and retire my 1DmkIII backup.

Again though if on anything it wouldn't be a camera at the moment.
 
odd jim said:
I've done Vegas and flew to the Grand Canyon from there via helicopter, it was pretty amazing I must say. If like to go back, and view it from the river next time (maybe one boat along the Colorado River), I think that would be a different way to see (and shoot) it!
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There's a trip you can fly there from Vegas, land, have a boat trip, then fly back (optional champagne...)
 
D610, great camera going quite cheap used now and I will also get a tamron 28-75 2.8 and I will have few quids left for a plane ticket somewhere in Europe to actually use it
 
7D MkII AF @ F8 ,High iso , 10 frame burst rate , 61 AF points etc etc
 
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