Originally posted by blackcloudbrew Dave, the idea of taking a poll of members of a user forum devoted to a single brand of camera on what they spend discretionary income on is a bold move! But you have to ask yourself, why would we be here on this forum if we didn't spend all of our discretionary income on photography? I would be shocked if this poll didn't come out strongly in favor of camera gear. I mean consider your questions. Other hobbies - leads to making spare money to spend on - camera gear. Entertainment - used to provide a backdrop to use...our camera gear or talk about how we use our camera gear. Travel - used to get to places to use our camera gear. So all but the Other Stuff are things related to camera gear! Any one who votes for other stuff is obviously being watched by their significant other who most likely does the bills and hasn't found the way to hide the discretionary income you spend on camera gear.
So...vote away.
Tim :-)
I thought about that Tim yes it could all relate to camera gear (I bought a new porsche so I could photograph it might be streching it ha ha) - but there are a lot of members here that use the tools they already have - me I am a self admitted gear whore and while settling down now as the honeymoon phase of my entry into the DSLR world has come to end.
I hope I am now trying to be a better photographer and not just buy better / more equipment
that phase is over to buy just because now I try and justify my purchases more on photographic needs as opposed to wants - albeit admittedly I lose this argument from time to time
And really I do it as a hobby so how can a truly have a 'need' ?
Personally what I spend on Camera gear on a yearly basis now (perhaps the first year it was right up there) is not all that much
Now one of the reasons I like the Travel so much is to take photographs of various places so one could argue that is feeding my photographic hobby , other than the recent Utah trip , photography has never been the main reason , but certainly a bonus side effect
I spend way more on Travel than camera gear - it's not even close now ....
This is where I am comming from - to see if the majority spend their money on gear all the time
Last edited by daacon; 10-06-2009 at 07:56 AM.