You do have an excellent strategy.
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/13/2012 11:16 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
> The blog posting I was referring to was where his business manager
> alto-ego was chewing him out over camera purchases. My favorite line
> was about bricking an entire wall with camera bodies. I've heard that
> line from my wife...
>
> What Kirk was dancing around but never really coming to grips with is
> the fact that photographers--especially professional photographers
> need an "ownership strategy" that is not emotionally based, but
> centers on cost-containment and revenue-generation.
>
> Unfortunately, Kirk has some serious character deficiencies that are
> based on the fact that he loves cameras and is a professional
> photographer as an excuse to play with photographic toys. I don't
> expect his new thinking of austerity to last very long.
>
> We all don't read his blog for honest assessments. We read his blog
> because we get to live our photographic equipment acquisition lives
> vicariously through him.
> He's doing what Michael Richtmann did years ago before he started
> buying cameras that cost more than luxury cars. At some point, we tend
> to lose interest about things which have no semblence of reality to
> us. Kirk is using AFFORDABLE and pretty HUMBLE equipment. We can
> relate to that. Furthermore, the bulk of the work he does (which he
> writes about) is stuff that pretty much any photographer can relate
> to. In essence, Kirk is us.
>
> When it comes to digital cameras, I actually do have an ownership
> strategy. Fortunately, sticking with this strategy has saved me a lot
> of money. Unfortunately, sticking with this strategy really grinds my
> goat because I want to use the latest/greatest stuff. So, I read Kirk
> Tuck's blog so I can let him do the buying/selling/using for me.
>
> AG
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