£1500 to spend, decisions, decisions!!

Unlocker · 2008-02-08T02:36:04+0000

Well, it's 2 in the morning, I am getting drunk, celebrating turning $8 into $3000 on Full Tilt Poker! Seeing as though with my last poker wins I bought a K10D for the better half that I wanted to surprise her with for Xmas but couldn't afford, I'm now going to be greedy and spend this one on myself! The trouble is, what on? As you can tell from my sig, I currently have both DA*'s, a 50 1.4, and a K10D Grand Prix. The missus has my old K10D, and we will probably sell the kit lens and a Sigma 70-300mm on ebay, giving her the Pentax 18-250mm to replace them. (There was no beer in the fridge, so just finishing off the last of the box of white wine that I found in the fridge (3 full glasses!) and I've just spotted a bottle of vodka, so bear with me!) Obviously, I could now afford a K20D. With plans to possibly go into wedding photography next year, this has plenty of plus points, i.e. better low light shooting for churches etc., a lot quieter, and the killer app, image quality. (With money left over for another lens!) Or... Between us we have 2x K10D's with grips and extra batteries etc, a 16-50mm DA*, 50-135mm DA* and a decent Manfrotto tripod which I believe would probably be good enough to start shooting a wedding with. Therefore we would probably be better off buying 2 or 3 decent prime lenses and spending the rest of the year improving our techniques. Other considerations:- Would like a damn good photo printer. The Epson R1900 has a lot of appeal! We have (I believe!) plenty of computing power, (A G5 Imac and a P4 Alienware laptop), so would a decent investment in software be a good idea? (Is Photoshop Elements enough? ) I am getting drunk. Plan to be going to the Focus in Imaging show at the end of the month, so can quite easily wait to play with some toys. The Sigma 50-500mm appeals (but only IF they do it in HSM, they have announced that they are starting to support this on Pentax now!) Sigma and Tamron are both releasing (both in full frame I believe!) a 70-200mm 2.8 (which would make an effective 100 - 300mm 2.8 ) which I think would compliment my existing lenses. (PS Spellchecker thinks Tamron should be Tampon!) The wine has gone, the vodka has a big drink me sign above it! It will probably take 7-10 days before the money is in my account, and I would have sobered up by then! Taking all this into consideration, what would you be tempted to do? All advice greatly received of course! Regards Unlocker PS its 2.30am now, fag and vodka time!

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Hyram Hyram

2812 posts
19 years
Deepest Hampshire,
England

Posted 13/02/2008 - 08:34 Link

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.....................Especially if you keep drinking my wine!!....................

'his' and 'hers' wine

Who has the better wine : :

Hyram

Bodies: K20D (2), K10D, Super A, ME Super, Auto 110 SLR, X70, Optio P70
Pentax Glass: DA* 300, DA* 60-250, DA* 50-135, DA* 16-50, DA 70 Ltd, FA 31 Ltd, DA 35 Ltd, DA 18-55 (2), DA 12-24, DA 10-17, M 200, A 35-70, M 40, M 28, Converter-A 2X-S, 1.4X-S, AF 1.7, Pentax-110 50, Pentax-110 24
Other Glass: Sigma 105 macro, Sigma-A APO 75-300
Flash: Metz 58 AF-1 P, Pentax AF160FC ringflash, Pentax AF280T

Unlocker Unlocker

3062 posts
18 years
Aylesbury,
Bucks.

Posted 13/02/2008 - 12:55 Link

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Utopia Poppy wrote:
.....................Especially if you keep drinking my wine!!....................

'his' and 'hers' wine

Who has the better wine : :

Lol, think it best I don't go there!

The money is now in the bank, looks like I'm gonna need another win! 43rd place last night only got me enough to buy a generic battery, must try harder!

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