Nice pun 😂my girlfriend always tells me to focus more on birding
This is impressive. How would you compare your Z9 vs R3? I know those new VR TC lenses from Nikon are wonderful, and the Z9 is a very capable camera, but still you decided to keep both Canon and Nikon systems. I’m wondering why?Those 6 cameras laying on the ground will get you at least 30 or more pairs of "ALPHA" Bin's. So it is all relative and this type of things are quite affordable by most compared to Super Cars, Yachts, Airplanes etc,etc,etc.. All that counts is if it makes you happy and mine does...
It is therapy😆Therapy would be cheaper
Andy, I have a few hundred books as well but for some reason I don’t consider myself a book collector, maybe that doesn’t make sense. My reasoning is that the books accumulated over a period of time and whr do,we do with them after we read them? I can’t throw them away, many if not most of them are technical or instructional in nature, things like investing, commercial endeavors, cosmology, some medical and legal books, some sports , equipment books on guns, Knives, optics and so on and so on. My wife mostly goes more into the novels and a lot of emotional literature.Wow!
The one, criticism I would have, is that some of this stuff must lay around, unused for years and you can't even make it look nice in a display, just looks like a shop, stock room!
I've got well over a thousand books but at least they display well and I do, use, all of them regularly.
in case of my demise I have a list of most of all my toys and equipment that has any value over $200. I have them in categories listed in no particular order. I list the manufacturer, the model, the approximate year manufactured and what the current values are in retail and wholesale numbers. Although I have many receipts from the purchases, I do not list the amount I paid for each item, got for bid. If I did my wife would be doing something other than crying at my gravesite. On some of the items I will make a small notation, concerning the rarity and or collectibility of the item , as well as if the item has/had any sentimental value to me. Two of my children probably wouldn’t wanna sell anything just because they were mine, The other two would be rounding the equipment up the day after my burial to put on eBay. 😳🙄. Just kidding, I think.I thought about this with my books, however, they will need to know what is worth, what?
Hi my name is Paul , I’m an eyepiece junky. Guilty there Scott , Ive been in recovery for about ten years now. Although I own about 50-60 eyepieces now, I had over 200 at one point. I had multiple full sets of Zeiss Jena .96” oculars, Zeiss west Abbe orthos with the Barlow and wood display case as well as sets of Clave, Takahashi, Televue, Meade, Nikon and a few others I can’t remember.thank god I'm not into photography - I'm good with one low-quality point&shoot
Astronomy eyepieces though.....recovering addict here! I think I'm currently holding 25 of them, give or take, down from a lot more. They've been described as man-jewelry and they function as such. At least they're small and easy to buy & sell.
Really not compared Canon to Nikon as the Canon is all new to me where Nikon has been with me longer.. I am also really keen one day to buy me a Sony A1 and 600MM F/4 Gmaster..This is impressive. How would you compare your Z9 vs R3? I know those new VR TC lenses from Nikon are wonderful, and the Z9 is a very capable camera, but still you decided to keep both Canon and Nikon systems. I’m wondering why?
At one point of time I had the Sony A1 + 600 + 400 and the Canon R5 + rf600 + rf400. The Sony was clearly superior so I dumped the Canon’s long teles (kept the R5 since I still have other Canon glass). If I didn’t sell those two lenses - I wouldn’t use them anyway.
That 50 and 75 must be outstanding. The bokeh must be amazing.Leica Glass Ihave here has gone up about $USD 2500.00 each since I bought them however purchased only for the pure enjoyment of them and not investment..View attachment 1523419View attachment 1523420
I would think that that might even be more dangerous than burglarizing my house 😲. Between the dog, the booby traps, security cameras, and a fully armed occupancy , all with credible shooting skills would be very bad for one’s health. Not to mention neighbors in the event you visit when nobody is home. 😵💫.BulbMogul's house must be a house worth burgling 🙂
What's your address? 😅
Such a person is what's called a "binocular butterfly".I’m not talking about the people who buy something , use it a few months , buy something else and sell the former, that to if done consistently is more just trying out the flavor of the month.