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dadikongbaduy
Posts: 16
Manila, Arkansas, US
for a photographer, which is need and which is want?
a state-of-the-art camera or expensive lighting equipment?
for me it's a good camera that i need. with a good camera your ability to produce a good picture is limited only by your creativeness and resourcefulness and you can do without expensive lighting equipment.
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Zachary Reed
Posts: 523
Denver, Colorado, US
they're all wants all we really need is a body with a lens and light. iworked with the same canon AE-1 for 7 years with no flash or anything. now i've stepped up to a canon eos 1v but thats was a pure want. i wont even beable to use half the custom functions. i guess it all also depends on what you're shooting for. for some a 16mpdslr is a need.
its all relative.
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Craig Thomson
Posts: 13462
Tacoma, Washington, US
dadikongbaduy wrote:
for a photographer, which is need and which is want?
a state-of-the-art camera or expensive lighting equipment?
for me it's a good camera that i need. with a good camera your ability to produce a good picture is limited only by your creativeness and resourcefulness and you can do without expensive lighting equipment. This could be like shooting your self in the foot but your taking really good aim.
I bought the low-end prosumer Canon 10D a year ago and the cheapest tungsten strobes used (30+ yr old Speedotron Brownline) and have been buying glass as I can afford it.
To answer your question, I donât have any needs. And my wants are few, if anything, I want a larger studio. I manage well with what I have and what I get to shoot.
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Brittiany
Posts: 118
Dearborn, Michigan, US
Would you want to shoot with me or NEED to shoot with me??? Sike... Just playing 
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KHatch
Posts: 255
Utica, New York, US
A WANT becomes a NEED the minute you can afford it. 
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Chris Oakley
Posts: 127
Cocoa, Florida, US
KHatch wrote:
A WANT becomes a NEED the minute you can afford it. that is so true.. LOL..
chris
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Hugh Jorgen
Posts: 2850
Ashland, Oregon, US
Both!!
I need Both!!
(:------
Hj
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Kevin Connery
Posts: 17824
El Segundo, California, US
dadikongbaduy wrote:
for a photographer, which is need and which is want?
a state-of-the-art camera or expensive lighting equipment? Neither?
If you're photographing sports, or need high frame rates, a 'state-of-the-art camera' may be needed for todays market. If you're working with models, you should be able to get acceptable results from an inexpensive P&S film camera--even a disposable one.
Good lighting equipment, on the other hand, is critical, but it doesn't have to be expensive. A $10 chunk of foam core and the thermonuclear light source 100 million miles away can do wonders, as can the wall of someone else's house with that same light source.
Need? Experience, practice, and knowledge.
Want? Pretty much everything else.
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Jay Kilgore
Posts: 798
Edina, Minnesota, US
Want = Canon 5d (after owning the 20d for two whole weeks and swearing before god and the wife that after getting the 20d, I won't need anything for a while)
Need = Hallie Berry
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PinayVampyre
Posts: 1243
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
KHatch wrote:
A WANT becomes a NEED the minute you can afford it. ***Hahahah so true...
Sorry I have no useful input in this thread =P
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IsatiableEyesPhoto
Posts: 87
Greenville, Alabama, US
mag-jr wrote:
(after owning the 20d for two whole weeks and swearing before god and the wife that after getting the 20d, I won't need anything for a while)
Hey man, that's my line. I just told my girlfriend the same thing about 4 months ago!
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Brian Diaz
Posts: 65617
Danbury, Connecticut, US
mag-jr wrote:
Want = Canon 5d (after owning the 20d for two whole weeks and swearing before god and the wife that after getting the 20d, I won't need anything for a while) I had only a slightly longer relationship with my ex- as I have with the 10D I bought in part to get over her. If that makes any sense.
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Jay Kilgore
Posts: 798
Edina, Minnesota, US
lol
My wife was standing over my shoulder reading this and said
"pathetic, all you guys are simply pathetic"
I'm using the angle that cause I shoot weddings, I need the 5d for noise control indoors blah blah blah.
I gave her my rebel, I gotta tell her I'll give her the 20d, then sell the rebel and get a powershot pro lol. 12mp that's affordable is pretty nice!
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Zion Imaging
Posts: 890
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, US
mag-jr wrote:
Want = Canon 5d (after owning the 20d for two whole weeks and swearing before god and the wife that after getting the 20d, I won't need anything for a while)
Need = Hallie Berry So what did the wife think of this one?
Your need that is...........
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not here anymore.
Posts: 1892
San Diego, California, US
i want a nikon d2x, all my lighting was a need, which is why i got it. a good photographer can take good pics with a shitty camera, but bad photographer will always be bad. lighting is also what makes a picture.
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Zion Imaging
Posts: 890
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, US
trying to get last post to show... lol
and it didn't .. off to another planet it seems..
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Jay Kilgore
Posts: 798
Edina, Minnesota, US
Zion Imaging wrote:
So what did the wife think of this one?
Your need that is...........
She called me a whore cause I was just trying to wheel and deal to get with her lol. She calls me a cheater cause I always say Eva Mendes is my girl.
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Columbus Photo
Posts: 2318
Columbus, Georgia, US
My problem is that I really don't need anything but I've got the bug to buy something. The only thing I've bought in a year or so is background paper. I keep thinking about the 20D and a few lighting accessories but.....
Paul
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Jefferson Dorsey
Posts: 648
Nashville, Tennessee, US
I NEED money to buy the stuff I WANT.
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John Paul
Posts: 937
Schenectady, New York, US
dadikongbaduy wrote:
for a photographer, which is need and which is want?
a state-of-the-art camera or expensive lighting equipment?
for me it's a good camera that i need. with a good camera your ability to produce a good picture is limited only by your creativeness and resourcefulness and you can do without expensive lighting equipment. LOL!! Lighting is the KEY to photography!!
Go blow your dough on a fancy camera.. your lighting won't improve, I guarantee you!
JP
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megafunk
Posts: 2594
Los Angeles, California, US
mag-jr wrote:
She called me a whore cause I was just trying to wheel and deal to get with her lol. She calls me a cheater cause I always say Eva Mendes is my girl. Berry AND Mendes! You can't save one of them for me? F**ing greedy.
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Jay Kilgore
Posts: 798
Edina, Minnesota, US
megafunk wrote:
Berry AND Mendes! You can't save one of them for me? F**ing greedy. Sorry dude, you can have Janet and Beyonce' I've dumped them both a few months ago
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Benjamen McGuire
Posts: 3991
Portland, Oregon, US
when i was 11 i built a camera out of an oatmeal container and some kind of photo paper i stole from the science room at my school. i took a picture of a girl from down the road posing in the sun. it didn't turn out so bad considering i had no clue what i was doing as far as developing. my point? i don't remeber......... oh yea, when you have a good eye and common sense you can work with ANYTHING.
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Gibson Photo Art
Posts: 7990
Phoenix, Arizona, US
Paul Ferrara wrote:
My problem is that I really don't need anything but I've got the bug to buy something. The only thing I've bought in a year or so is background paper. I keep thinking about the 20D and a few lighting accessories but.....
Paul Do IT! Do IT! Do IT!
I really like my 20D.
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megafunk
Posts: 2594
Los Angeles, California, US
mag-jr wrote:
Sorry dude, you can have Janet and Beyonce' I've dumped them both a few months ago Always getting big brothers holey handmedowns. GrrRrrr.
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Farenell Photography
Posts: 18832
Albany, New York, US
dadikongbaduy wrote:
for a photographer, which is need and which is want?
a state-of-the-art camera or expensive lighting equipment?
for me it's a good camera that i need. with a good camera your ability to produce a good picture is limited only by your creativeness and resourcefulness and you can do without expensive lighting equipment. Sunlight is about as expensive a lighting equipment that I get...or want to get for that matter. Besides climbing up on trees or rolling around in the grass is part of the fun of shooting outdoors.
Therefore the lighting equipment is a want & the camera is a need....although I'd much rather upgrade lenses than get a new camera body.
But if a person doesn't understand light or how it effects compositions then I'll have to agree w/ Visual Mindscapes that no amount of equipment can save them.
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