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I took the 70-200vr plunge today...thanks to the many post on this board and especially the review by one tao.design. After rebate it will come in just under my $1500 budget. The money is some I saved up doing odd jobs.

My wife knows I have some money and I told her I was going to buy "a nice lense" with it...and she's cool with that. Problem is, she doesn't really know how much I have. Of course, I had to order the lense with the charge card. When she sees a charge for a $1600 lense she is going to do you know what with a load of bricks.

Spending $1000 on a camera was quite a pill for my wife to swallow. Spending $1500 (after rebate) on a lense for said camera is likely to throw her into coronary arrest. She just isn't going to understand.

Any suggestions on how to handle this situation would be greatly appreciated.
 
Buying flowres and dinner helps...

Also, taking nice pictures of her and your kids (if you have them) should help as well.

Good luck!
JDFowler said:
I took the 70-200vr plunge today...thanks to the many post on this
board and especially the review by one tao.design. After rebate it
will come in just under my $1500 budget. The money is some I saved
up doing odd jobs.

My wife knows I have some money and I told her I was going to buy
"a nice lense" with it...and she's cool with that. Problem is, she
doesn't really know how much I have. Of course, I had to order the
lense with the charge card. When she sees a charge for a $1600
lense she is going to do you know what with a load of bricks.

Spending $1000 on a camera was quite a pill for my wife to swallow.
Spending $1500 (after rebate) on a lense for said camera is likely
to throw her into coronary arrest. She just isn't going to
understand.

Any suggestions on how to handle this situation would be greatly
appreciated.
Click to expand...
--
Dave Boxmeyer
 
Cuz you are going to need it. Thank god my significant other thinks I have an eye for photography, and she encourages me to go after my passion. This is the only advice I can provide - explain to her your passion, your need to improve your photography, and that in order to live a happy life, you need a $1500 lens ;-). Is she into photography? DOes she have an appreciation for a perfectly exposed, in-focus, SHARP a$$ picture? Maybe when she sees the results the lens can provide, it will convince her it is a wise investment?

Everyone knows that women control the money in this world (how many husbands have said here that their wife 'allowed' them to buy a lens ;-).
JDFowler said:
I took the 70-200vr plunge today...thanks to the many post on this
board and especially the review by one tao.design. After rebate it
will come in just under my $1500 budget. The money is some I saved
up doing odd jobs.

My wife knows I have some money and I told her I was going to buy
"a nice lense" with it...and she's cool with that. Problem is, she
doesn't really know how much I have. Of course, I had to order the
lense with the charge card. When she sees a charge for a $1600
lense she is going to do you know what with a load of bricks.

Spending $1000 on a camera was quite a pill for my wife to swallow.
Spending $1500 (after rebate) on a lense for said camera is likely
to throw her into coronary arrest. She just isn't going to
understand.

Any suggestions on how to handle this situation would be greatly
appreciated.
Click to expand...
--
ShutterBugin
http://www.exposureproductions.smugmug.com

 
I have a hard time justifing some of the lenses I buy. Just do the right thing that any man would do.

1.) Intercept the statement.
2.) File it after you pay the lens off.
3.) Don't say another word unless she brings it up.

If you placed $1,600 in the account during the same period I am sure she will not say much if anything at all.

The 70-200 is built the way many pro lenses were years ago. It is a real treat.

Enjoy it!
Regards,

Jeff Morris
Homecinemaman

Adams, Gutmann, Steichen, Stigletz, Weston. they lead by example.
 
Take pictures of your wife and kids.....something to remember them by.

Good Luck !
DMB said:
Also, taking nice pictures of her and your kids (if you have them)
should help as well.

Good luck!
JDFowler said:
I took the 70-200vr plunge today...thanks to the many post on this
board and especially the review by one tao.design. After rebate it
will come in just under my $1500 budget. The money is some I saved
up doing odd jobs.

My wife knows I have some money and I told her I was going to buy
"a nice lense" with it...and she's cool with that. Problem is, she
doesn't really know how much I have. Of course, I had to order the
lense with the charge card. When she sees a charge for a $1600
lense she is going to do you know what with a load of bricks.

Spending $1000 on a camera was quite a pill for my wife to swallow.
Spending $1500 (after rebate) on a lense for said camera is likely
to throw her into coronary arrest. She just isn't going to
understand.

Any suggestions on how to handle this situation would be greatly
appreciated.
Click to expand...
--
Dave Boxmeyer
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--
Ted
 
Well,

I believe being up front is the best policy, strike that one :P lol your next best bet, is to explain to her how much you enjoy photography.And if that fails, you had better take alot of photos of her with that lens!

Best regards,
Thomas

Good luck! Enjoy the lens, and by no means let her use it to clober you :) Not covered under warranty!
JDFowler said:
I took the 70-200vr plunge today...thanks to the many post on this
board and especially the review by one tao.design. After rebate it
will come in just under my $1500 budget. The money is some I saved
up doing odd jobs.

My wife knows I have some money and I told her I was going to buy
"a nice lense" with it...and she's cool with that. Problem is, she
doesn't really know how much I have. Of course, I had to order the
lense with the charge card. When she sees a charge for a $1600
lense she is going to do you know what with a load of bricks.

Spending $1000 on a camera was quite a pill for my wife to swallow.
Spending $1500 (after rebate) on a lense for said camera is likely
to throw her into coronary arrest. She just isn't going to
understand.

Any suggestions on how to handle this situation would be greatly
appreciated.
Click to expand...
--
http://www.photosbytom.com/gallery/

Gear:
Camera (digital)
Camera Non-digital
Another Camera, non-digital
A point and shoot Digital (Notice I did not call it a camera :P)
Lenses: Long, Short, and in between.
Flashes
Some extras.
ICQ#36762366
 
Boy, I know how you feel... I've been struggling about the purchase for just the same reason. Have a once=in-a-lifetime trip to Zimbabwe coming up and want to have the best lens I can afford.

Ahhh, but how to get this around the hubby? (see, it's not always the woman who controls the $$!) He'll never 'get' it that a lens can be more than the body itself.

So I see what the secret is... Just go ahead a take the plunge, worry about the consequences later! Sounds like great advice to me - thanks!
JDFowler said:
I took the 70-200vr plunge today...thanks to the many post on this
board and especially the review by one tao.design. After rebate it
will come in just under my $1500 budget. The money is some I saved
up doing odd jobs.

My wife knows I have some money and I told her I was going to buy
"a nice lense" with it...and she's cool with that. Problem is, she
doesn't really know how much I have. Of course, I had to order the
lense with the charge card. When she sees a charge for a $1600
lense she is going to do you know what with a load of bricks.

Spending $1000 on a camera was quite a pill for my wife to swallow.
Spending $1500 (after rebate) on a lense for said camera is likely
to throw her into coronary arrest. She just isn't going to
understand.

Any suggestions on how to handle this situation would be greatly
appreciated.
Click to expand...
--
jojo
 
Repeat after me, "You know honey I never realized that this hobby was going to suck me in so deep. I guess I knew something was wrong the first time I started playing with some photos I had taken with you. I looked on the screen at what I had captured and realized that this was perhaps the most important thing I was going to do in my life. I mean I was so blessed to have been granted a lifetime with someone like you but it is only one lifetime. It just doesn't seem right. I knew that I'd have to leave something behind as proof of what a rich man I was for having been with you. Ever since then I've been obsessed with gear. I mean people that do this for celebrities, politicians, models, they buy only the best gear. They don't play at this. I have to take it this serious. I might only get one chance one day to capture your true essence. I've done nothing that does you justice yet so when my one chance comes I'm not going to blow it. I guess I get a little nuts sometimes when it comes to you but even after all these years it's just so hard to restrain myself sometimes. You still do that to me."

Women are like cars, cameras, fear, and taxes. You have to learn them and then master them. I'm not saying this will work for you but I'm sure you could modify it for your particular situation. This is just off of the top of my head. I've spent my life learning how to tell women the lies that would make them happy. Enjoy.
--
http://darkangel.smugmug.com/
 
Not being married, this might sound like advice from the peanut gallery, but I am a woman.

Be up front, tell her outright how much you earned and how much you spent BEFORE she gets the statement. If she's like me, she will definitely notice its absence, so interception is a bad idea.

Tell her how happy photography makes you and that this lens is the BEST money can buy and you'll never need another in that focal range, ever. ;)

Then buy her something pretty.

--Adria
JDFowler said:
I took the 70-200vr plunge today...thanks to the many post on this
board and especially the review by one tao.design. After rebate it
will come in just under my $1500 budget. The money is some I saved
up doing odd jobs.

My wife knows I have some money and I told her I was going to buy
"a nice lense" with it...and she's cool with that. Problem is, she
doesn't really know how much I have. Of course, I had to order the
lense with the charge card. When she sees a charge for a $1600
lense she is going to do you know what with a load of bricks.

Spending $1000 on a camera was quite a pill for my wife to swallow.
Spending $1500 (after rebate) on a lense for said camera is likely
to throw her into coronary arrest. She just isn't going to
understand.

Any suggestions on how to handle this situation would be greatly
appreciated.
Click to expand...
--
http://www.pbase.com/adriainpdx
 
I'm sorta in the same boat. I purchased a 2nd D70 a month ago and my wife still hasn't noticed it yet. When she does I haven't figured out what to say.
THomasAdams said:
Best regards,
Thomas

Good luck! Enjoy the lens, and by no means let her use it to clober
you :) Not covered under warranty!
JDFowler said:
I took the 70-200vr plunge today...thanks to the many post on this
board and especially the review by one tao.design. After rebate it
will come in just under my $1500 budget. The money is some I saved
up doing odd jobs.

My wife knows I have some money and I told her I was going to buy
"a nice lense" with it...and she's cool with that. Problem is, she
doesn't really know how much I have. Of course, I had to order the
lense with the charge card. When she sees a charge for a $1600
lense she is going to do you know what with a load of bricks.

Spending $1000 on a camera was quite a pill for my wife to swallow.
Spending $1500 (after rebate) on a lense for said camera is likely
to throw her into coronary arrest. She just isn't going to
understand.

Any suggestions on how to handle this situation would be greatly
appreciated.
Click to expand...
--
http://www.photosbytom.com/gallery/

Gear:
Camera (digital)
Camera Non-digital
Another Camera, non-digital
A point and shoot Digital (Notice I did not call it a camera :P)
Lenses: Long, Short, and in between.
Flashes
Some extras.
ICQ#36762366
Click to expand...
 
JDFowler said:
Any suggestions on how to handle this situation would be greatly
appreciated.
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When she notices and asks about it, act a little crazy. Some drool on the chin would help. :)

Congrats on the purchase -- you're gonna love that lens. So will the wife after she sees a few images. Not to mention glass of this quality is an investment that will last through several cam bodies. Think not? Check the used prices on the 80-200AFS obsoleted by the big VR.

Phil
 
hehe...

I think being honest doesn't always work, especially telling your wife like: "honey, guess what... i just spent our 1.5 grand on a piece of lens."

The thought of it alone is unbearable.... lol...

unless you have a wife who supports you 100% in your hobby and don't mind you to spend money on it.. or you are damn rich..

I think most guys can never understand why some of their partners can spend so much money on tupperwares, they're just freakin plastic containers to us...

And if you reverse the situation, wife hardly can understand why you need to buy more than one lens... let alone 1.5 grand one.. and is she ever find out it's $1,500... ouch.... and tupperware cost you what... 100 bucks or less ? but the lens = $1500... ouch again...

Good luck ! hehe..

I dont know, I think it's better if you tell her you just bought a lens (you cant really hide the lens anyway) but maybe divide the price by 3 or 4 first.

Albert.
 
"if it's got tits or tires, you got problems."

i still have the car!

good luck,
tom
dj_mocok said:
hehe...

I think being honest doesn't always work, especially telling your
wife like: "honey, guess what... i just spent our 1.5 grand on a
piece of lens."

The thought of it alone is unbearable.... lol...

unless you have a wife who supports you 100% in your hobby and
don't mind you to spend money on it.. or you are damn rich..

I think most guys can never understand why some of their partners
can spend so much money on tupperwares, they're just freakin
plastic containers to us...

And if you reverse the situation, wife hardly can understand why
you need to buy more than one lens... let alone 1.5 grand one.. and
is she ever find out it's $1,500... ouch.... and tupperware cost
you what... 100 bucks or less ? but the lens = $1500... ouch
again...

Good luck ! hehe..

I dont know, I think it's better if you tell her you just bought a
lens (you cant really hide the lens anyway) but maybe divide the
price by 3 or 4 first.

Albert.
Click to expand...
 
JDFowler said:
I took the 70-200vr plunge today...thanks to the many post on this
board and especially the review by one tao.design. After rebate it
will come in just under my $1500 budget. The money is some I saved
up doing odd jobs.

My wife knows I have some money and I told her I was going to buy
"a nice lense" with it...and she's cool with that. Problem is, she
doesn't really know how much I have. Of course, I had to order the
lense with the charge card. When she sees a charge for a $1600
lense she is going to do you know what with a load of bricks.

Spending $1000 on a camera was quite a pill for my wife to swallow.
Spending $1500 (after rebate) on a lense for said camera is likely
to throw her into coronary arrest. She just isn't going to
understand.

Any suggestions on how to handle this situation would be greatly
appreciated.
Click to expand...
 
brokenz said:
Repeat after me, "You know honey I never realized that this hobby
was going to suck me in so deep. I guess I knew something was wrong
the first time I started playing with some photos I had taken with
you. I looked on the screen at what I had captured and realized
that this was perhaps the most important thing I was going to do in
my life. I mean I was so blessed to have been granted a lifetime
with someone like you but it is only one lifetime. It just doesn't
seem right. I knew that I'd have to leave something behind as proof
of what a rich man I was for having been with you. Ever since then
I've been obsessed with gear. I mean people that do this for
celebrities, politicians, models, they buy only the best gear. They
don't play at this. I have to take it this serious. I might only
get one chance one day to capture your true essence. I've done
nothing that does you justice yet so when my one chance comes I'm
not going to blow it. I guess I get a little nuts sometimes when it
comes to you but even after all these years it's just so hard to
restrain myself sometimes. You still do that to me."

Women are like cars, cameras, fear, and taxes. You have to learn
them and then master them. I'm not saying this will work for you
but I'm sure you could modify it for your particular situation.
This is just off of the top of my head. I've spent my life learning
how to tell women the lies that would make them happy. Enjoy.
--
http://darkangel.smugmug.com/
Click to expand...
 
If she doesn't know much about photography, you can try telling her that without this $1500 VR lens to control camera shake, you would have been forced to buy a $2000 tripod. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Dve
JDFowler said:
I took the 70-200vr plunge today...thanks to the many post on this
board and especially the review by one tao.design. After rebate it
will come in just under my $1500 budget. The money is some I saved
up doing odd jobs.

My wife knows I have some money and I told her I was going to buy
"a nice lense" with it...and she's cool with that. Problem is, she
doesn't really know how much I have. Of course, I had to order the
lense with the charge card. When she sees a charge for a $1600
lense she is going to do you know what with a load of bricks.

Spending $1000 on a camera was quite a pill for my wife to swallow.
Spending $1500 (after rebate) on a lense for said camera is likely
to throw her into coronary arrest. She just isn't going to
understand.

Any suggestions on how to handle this situation would be greatly
appreciated.
Click to expand...
 
There is one problem with buying her something pretty..
He doesn't have any money left!! He spent it all on the lens....
My advice is to find a new place to live as a standby.

Dave
Adria said:
Be up front, tell her outright how much you earned and how much you
spent BEFORE she gets the statement. If she's like me, she will
definitely notice its absence, so interception is a bad idea.

Tell her how happy photography makes you and that this lens is the
BEST money can buy and you'll never need another in that focal
range, ever. ;)

Then buy her something pretty.

--Adria
JDFowler said:
I took the 70-200vr plunge today...thanks to the many post on this
board and especially the review by one tao.design. After rebate it
will come in just under my $1500 budget. The money is some I saved
up doing odd jobs.

My wife knows I have some money and I told her I was going to buy
"a nice lense" with it...and she's cool with that. Problem is, she
doesn't really know how much I have. Of course, I had to order the
lense with the charge card. When she sees a charge for a $1600
lense she is going to do you know what with a load of bricks.

Spending $1000 on a camera was quite a pill for my wife to swallow.
Spending $1500 (after rebate) on a lense for said camera is likely
to throw her into coronary arrest. She just isn't going to
understand.

Any suggestions on how to handle this situation would be greatly
appreciated.
Click to expand...
--
http://www.pbase.com/adriainpdx
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You think you got problems? The guide price for this lens in the UK is £1500 i.e. $2,888! How the hell I am supposed to justify that to my wife? :(

Simon
 
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