iiiNelson
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Yeah but there's this thing called credit and business loans...LOL! If you're a free-lance photographer or a single-person shop making less than $50K per year from your business, the very notion of spending $14K for a couple of pieces of equipment is so absurd it isn't worth considering. MOST professional photographers in that situation buy the cheapest gear that will get the job done—and for most such jobs handled by $50K/annum photographers the nuanced excellence of a Leica lens compared to the already excellent rendering of a good CaNiFuPenSoOlyPan lens is completely irrelevant: The buyers don't see it.
This is what I mean by acting like a professional. A professional MUST have backup and MUST buy equipment in keeping with the profitability of their business because their viability as a business depends on it. If you're making <$50K per year, you spend as little as possible on your gear and as much as you can afford marketing your work. A part-time "pro" photographer that makes a little money now and then from their photography, and has a generous stable income doing something else, can afford to buy high end gear because the cost of the gear is hardly reckoned into the cost of doing business. (Note that the Olympus professional program requires that you make something like 80% or more of your total income from photography with Olympus gear, and requires documentation to prove that.)
LOL again! Do you not understand that I am retired now and this entire forum is nothing more than idle chit-chat to pass the time in a pleasant manner, conversing with other idle photography-interested people, when I'm not otherwise busy? It has zero weight to me.
If I were still a working pro, I wouldn't have the time to waste on this discussion at all.
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I had written a much longer and nuanced reply but I just deleted it. You're continuing to choose to not acknowledge other valid points of view. Frankly, it's a bit disrespectful, paternalistic, and is a privileged viewpoint not conducive to the discussion.