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If you had a piggy bank holding $1600 mad money, would you...

Started Oct 3, 2016 | Polls thread
tlinn
tlinn Contributing Member • Posts: 595
Re: If you had a piggy bank holding $1600 mad money, would you...

As others have said, the answer depends on your situation. If you already have all the lenses you want then you can devote the funds to something else. I'd devote it to travel. Of course, traveling to another country on a photo trip with only one body is a risk but if buying the second body means you can't take the trip then I'd just take the trip. Ideally, you take the trip with two bodies (or, at least, two cameras).

One thing I would never do is buy a second body as an "investment" with no other purpose or plan for it. If the X-T3 looks like a dud when it is announced then THAT is the time to pick up a second X-T2. It will be cheap and the warranty will start from zero at that point.

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