How have you wasted money on photography?

Edgar

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8 Oct 2006 - 8:54 AM

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What item/s have you bought in relation to photography that have been an utter waste of money/time? I have a few but to start the ball rolling..

I bought one of those camera supports that attach to car doors/windows. Used once worried I would break the car window. To much fiddling about...Now it is in my not used box.

Please state item/s and why....This could help us avoid future waste,, although I doubt it.


Edgar

raziel_uk

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8 Oct 2006 - 9:10 AM

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Probably my two cameras! Nothing wrong with the cameras, they're great, it's the user that's rubbish and doesn't appear to have improved! :o)

da_nige

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8 Oct 2006 - 11:15 AM

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Fuji S602

If I had known the 10D was only gonna be £1500 (expected it to be £2500 like the D60 and D30 were when first released) when it came out I would have waited instead spent £700 and dont like it at all. Still got it though and Dad uses it sometimes

Carabosse (e2 Member)

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8 Oct 2006 - 12:03 PM

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Effects filters too for me - when I was using film. Sold the lot of them in the end!

mohikan22

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8 Oct 2006 - 12:19 PM

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An Epson R300 printer. WHAT A PILE OF CR4P forever tweaking the colour profiles. black is never black on most images its greenish. not even sharp. never had a problem with my old lexar. never getting an epson again. period!>

Just Jas

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8 Oct 2006 - 4:48 PM

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Perhaps I have spent too much money on new cameras when the old ones were working quite well. Whereas I could have spent the money on some real quality lenses.

However, I have some nice pieces of kit now, which can cover a number of eventualities.

And brings a ray of sunshine into an otherwise mundane existence.

jas

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8 Oct 2006 - 9:12 PM

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Good question.

Probably the biggest waste of money has been the switch from film to digital.
Sure I take many more shots, but sales have remained roughly the same as they were in the days when I shot film.
Now I don't think about a camera body as a one off expenditure it's just another consumable.

John

Carabosse (e2 Member)

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8 Oct 2006 - 9:35 PM

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If you had got the right lenses for your 300D Jas, you'd have stuck with digital.... I think!