shay guevara
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I see you are pestering ordinary decent DPR viewers again with your happy clappy stuff. Religion, as Karl Marx said, is the opium of the people.
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Do you tell your parents/significant other about your purchases?
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shay guevara
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Why do the religious feel they have the right to pester others? You remind me of the people I see shouting on street corners & waving a bible. Luckily we are now part of the EU, no longer slaves of the churches.
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shay guevara
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First you are sanctimonious, praying for my soul. Then you cannot win the intellectual argument, so you resort to hellfire and damnation. I leave others to decide, I have a brick to hand and a camera shop to visit.
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Roger Krueger
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ChocolateMommy
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This is our deal also, works well.
The big dealer in Minnesota, National Camera told me of a old lady who came in with 20 plus bodies and lenses to sell because her husband had died. She had the list of all the equipement her husband had made listing what he paid for each item. Everything was Leica equipement, he had listed Leica bodies as $289.00, lenses at $199.00 ect. National Camera did not want to rip her off, but did not want to tell her that her husband had lied to her all those years. What to do, they told her that the equipement her husband had purchased had become collectible and was now worth much more than he paid for it.
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Of course.
My wife and I have our own money, separate checking accounts, pensions & ss from when we worked. We handle our expenses informally, but no secrets. On big discretionary items we always get the other's OK beforehand.
I have to admit that my camera stuff got the OK since I initially convinced her (and rightly so) that the family (grandkids, etc) photos would be better if I had a DSLR and some lenses!
Now, three years later, she sees how important this rejuvenated photography hobby has become to me and she is even more understanding.
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My wife and I have our own money, separate checking accounts, pensions & ss from when we worked. We handle our expenses informally, but no secrets. On big discretionary items we always get the other's OK beforehand.
I have to admit that my camera stuff got the OK since I initially convinced her (and rightly so) that the family (grandkids, etc) photos would be better if I had a DSLR and some lenses!
Now, three years later, she sees how important this rejuvenated photography hobby has become to me and she is even more understanding.
Don
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henryhscheng
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The boss of that camera store is really considerate!
I could not help but burst out laughing--that is what I have been doing--in the extremely rare cases in which my parents have somehow found my "new" camera purchases, I would lie that they only cost 1/4 of the price I have paid...
I told my pop that my Nikon 5400 was a loan from my company (I work in a film company and he thinks we also shoot photogrpahs from time to time) and when I switched to the 8400, it took him months to realise that the camera was a little different from the 5400...
I put my rifle in a case and put the case in plain sight under a 1/200 unstarted model ship and got away with it for 2 years--I told him nobody wanted the model ship because it would take up too much space...and lately when he found out about the rifle's case, I told him it was for a full size toy gun.
If my pop finds out about the D40, I will tell him that it is an "old style" camera that nobody wants anymore, ppl want the ultra slim cameras these days.
Non-photographers tend not to notice the difference between glasses too and they cannot tell the difference between a 18-55 and 18-70 and 18-135 and 18-200 VR! So you can just sell the 18-55 and put on a new 18-200 without anybody noticing it...of course you cannot mount a bazooka on your camera and tell your parents/wife/in-laws the lens only cost $100...
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UMAX AstraCam (Hate-Hate relationship), Nikon 21OO (Love-Hate), 54OO (Steep Learning Curve), 84OO (Not-so-Steep), Canon A51O (Full-Featured but Soft), Sony Ericsson P91Oi's (O.3MP, for Pete's sake! Hate-Hate), Panasonic FZ2OK (Very Sharp but Noisy), Fujifilm F7OO (Inconsistant WB), F2O (The Ultimate P&S), D4O (Love-Love).
I could not help but burst out laughing--that is what I have been doing--in the extremely rare cases in which my parents have somehow found my "new" camera purchases, I would lie that they only cost 1/4 of the price I have paid...
I told my pop that my Nikon 5400 was a loan from my company (I work in a film company and he thinks we also shoot photogrpahs from time to time) and when I switched to the 8400, it took him months to realise that the camera was a little different from the 5400...
I put my rifle in a case and put the case in plain sight under a 1/200 unstarted model ship and got away with it for 2 years--I told him nobody wanted the model ship because it would take up too much space...and lately when he found out about the rifle's case, I told him it was for a full size toy gun.
If my pop finds out about the D40, I will tell him that it is an "old style" camera that nobody wants anymore, ppl want the ultra slim cameras these days.
Non-photographers tend not to notice the difference between glasses too and they cannot tell the difference between a 18-55 and 18-70 and 18-135 and 18-200 VR! So you can just sell the 18-55 and put on a new 18-200 without anybody noticing it...of course you cannot mount a bazooka on your camera and tell your parents/wife/in-laws the lens only cost $100...
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UMAX AstraCam (Hate-Hate relationship), Nikon 21OO (Love-Hate), 54OO (Steep Learning Curve), 84OO (Not-so-Steep), Canon A51O (Full-Featured but Soft), Sony Ericsson P91Oi's (O.3MP, for Pete's sake! Hate-Hate), Panasonic FZ2OK (Very Sharp but Noisy), Fujifilm F7OO (Inconsistant WB), F2O (The Ultimate P&S), D4O (Love-Love).
... I usually take such a long time until I finally make up my mind to buy something, that by the time I do decide to purchase something I have told my GF a million times already about the price and how badly I want this particular lens ... thus no hiding here.
I usually don't tell my friends too openly though. Not that I would be actively hiding anything from them, but unless there is genuine interest in the subject and not just nosiness about the money I am willing to invest in my hobby, I am reluctant to give detaisl ... The question about the price for a new lens or accessory I usually counter with a casual reply ... (having to tighten the notch on the belt once again .... ;-)
I usually don't tell my friends too openly though. Not that I would be actively hiding anything from them, but unless there is genuine interest in the subject and not just nosiness about the money I am willing to invest in my hobby, I am reluctant to give detaisl ... The question about the price for a new lens or accessory I usually counter with a casual reply ... (having to tighten the notch on the belt once again .... ;-)
BIJ001
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I (that is, we ) do not own not much gear.
The video camera (also our first digital still picture taking device, even a megapixel one!) was purchased for Xmas 2002 on her insiting on it. Xmas 2001 was recorded with a loaned (VHS) camera, and she wanted us to have an own one, so I chose and bought a Pana DV one. We shot the family Xmas with this gear, and my mother passed away in the spring 2003. So we have the last recordings on her (including her voice) due to this camera and due to my wife's pushing me to buy one.
Later two P&S cameras were bought as a present to her with her needs in mind, the first had been talked about, the second not, however I use them more often than her, but sometimes she takes it to the museum (she is a museologist) in order to document objects.
From the time before the marriage (the relationshop altogether) I stil have my Nikon F-801 film camera (with its 35-70 mm kit lens) but it is practically out of use.
The video camera (also our first digital still picture taking device, even a megapixel one!) was purchased for Xmas 2002 on her insiting on it. Xmas 2001 was recorded with a loaned (VHS) camera, and she wanted us to have an own one, so I chose and bought a Pana DV one. We shot the family Xmas with this gear, and my mother passed away in the spring 2003. So we have the last recordings on her (including her voice) due to this camera and due to my wife's pushing me to buy one.
Later two P&S cameras were bought as a present to her with her needs in mind, the first had been talked about, the second not, however I use them more often than her, but sometimes she takes it to the museum (she is a museologist) in order to document objects.
From the time before the marriage (the relationshop altogether) I stil have my Nikon F-801 film camera (with its 35-70 mm kit lens) but it is practically out of use.
I and my SO have separate accounts and generally both of us are free to do whatever we want with our money, as long as it's not something completely nonsensical, but we've really never had any such situation so far. And as we have no kids or need for owning a car, we have relatively small everyday expenses and can spend a bit to our own hobbies and recreation every now and then without worrying.So you just added another lens to your collection or you just
bought a DSLR/P&S/etc. that you've been planning to get, by winning
a bid on ebay, or picking one up at the local store, etc. You come
home with your fairly expensive purchase, do you tell your parents
(if you're still in school) or your significant other (wife,
husband, fiance, etc)?
Do you show them your receipt? Or you just hide your gear when you
get home? Or say you bought it for a much lower price?
However, I've always mentioned my equipment purchases to her in advance in case she would have some reason to suggest postponing or not doing the purchase at all. So far, her comments have always been just friendly teasing about me wanting new toys without any grumbling overtones.
DavidMaven
Senior Member
Any purchases made using assets not specifically set aside for individual use that are not pro-actively revealed seem to be a prima facie breach of trust between significant others.
Is it any wonder that divorce rates are so high when people even think of not telling spouses about significant purchases?
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3rdEye
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.... buy her a Canon Speedlite 430ex for her rebel xt. And yes she did say the flash by model name. So even if I wanted to hide something I couldn't cause she'd notice it down the road.
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