Having determined that in about 6 months time I will be getting an amount of money as an inheretance and also having been asked by Lindsey to do her wedding photos for her in a couple of months time I’ve decided to release \u00a32000 of my current savings for the purchase of photographic equipment.<\/p>\n
In the past week I’ve placed a pre-order for a Nikon D200 camera body. That’s going to take just over half the allocated funds on its own, about \u00a31200. This leaves \u00a3800 for everything else I’ll need for this job.<\/p>\n
Today I splashed out on the best tripod\/head combination I could afford, i.e. a Manfrotto 055MF3 magnesium\/carbon fibre 3 section tripod and a 222 joystick ball head. Seeing as the only ones of these T4 cameras in Witney had were on display they gave me a nice \u00a320 discount on their retail price. Still, the combo still cost a hefty \u00a3250. So I now have left \u00a3550 for a big camera\/computer backpack (Crumpler Brian’s Hottub, probably about \u00a3120-130) and a good, fast lens for inside work, something about F2.8 should do (there’s a Sigma EX series lens which should suit at around \u00a3250 as I can’t afford the equivalent Nikon at ~\u00a31000).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Having determined that in about 6 months time I will be getting an amount of money as an inheretance and also having been asked by Lindsey to do her wedding photos for her in a couple of months time I’ve … Continue reading