You hit the lottery,- what photo gear would buy?

<p>Daydream time. You just hit the lottery big. set for lige. What photo gear are you going to go out and get?</p>

<p>I would complete my Nikon system.<br>

D3 and a D3x akk the primes that I dont have, and a few of the Zooms.<br>

and a few sb800 strobes. And since I hit hit Big why not a F6</p>

<p>An M9 with lenses AND a Mamiya 7ii! DSLRs are so normal. I already have a D90, which I really think is my ideal DSLR anyway.</p>

<p>anything I want</p>

<p>I would hit the B & H store in NY and go crazy...</p>

<p>A ULF for sure. One larger than an 11 x 14.</p>

<p>why bother just enjoy myself and my family<br>

as my sister-in-law promised<br>

" pay for every house the family lives in"<br>

THEN buy a deccent but not otrageous<br>

camera for whenb I travel.u</p>

<p>Set for life? </p>

<p>(a) I'd invest it, and retire. </p>

<p>(b) I'd travel-- maybe take a week or ten days every couple of months to make negatives, go to galleries, go to a workshop or two.</p>

<p>I doubt if I would rush out and buy more hardware. I have most of the stuff I need to make the photographs I want. What I would really like to have is more time to make pictures. If you think about it, I bet most people feel the same way.</p>

<p>I'd buy a Leica M9 and a used Leica DMR, sell the rest of my gear.</p>

<p>I could use some film. </p>

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<p>Travel Tickets........Photographs <em><strong>will</strong> </em> follow.....</p>

<p>I dare not dream of it - the reality suddenly hits me so hard ;)</p>

<p>D3 og D3x with 14-24, 24-70 and 70-200, and lots of travels. And of course, a maid, and a gardener to take care of the house, and I almost forgot, a secretary to write refusals to all those who will beg for my money....</p>

<p>Oh yes, hire Joe McNally for a month or two to teach me how to take better pictures.</p>

<p>I would buy the one commodity I am currently short of. Time. I'd stop working, spend money on my house and use some of the time I've bought to use my existing photo gear more.</p>

<p>Regards</p>

<p>Alan</p>

<p>First, a house in the Laguedoc.<br>

Then perhaps a 1D3, a 400/2.8 and perhaps a 600/4</p>

<p>Because I'd be wealthy I wouldn't need to work, hence I wouldn't need to buy digital gear. I'd buy a bunch of Leica RF stuff and maybe some SLRs just for fun. I'd also buy a drum scanner. What the heck!</p>

<p>I suppose I'd buy an M9 just to test my lenses with. ;-) I mean I'd use it but you know, if you can afford the luxury of using film (miles and miles of it) and like it, why not? My head always says digital but my heart now says film again.</p>

<p>I'd probably travel around taking photos of whatever I please. I'd be in London for the Olympic Games for sure - to photograph the city and its people more than the event.</p>

<p>Jennifer....if i hit the lottery BIG TIME, I'd have B&H come to me with all the stuff and then choose. Heck with going there ;-)</p>

<p>That's easy. I'd head to Rochester,NY and purchase all of the Kodachrome manufacturing and processing machinery. Starting with 120 ,I'd run regular batches of 4x5 and 8x10 K25. Now that's a lottery dream!</p>

<p>Very little would be spent on gear. I might pick up a few specialized lenses (super-tele and the like) but not much else.<br>

I'm close enough to retirement to just pull the plug on my job and start traveling to places I could never afford to see otherwise.</p>

<p>Per-Christian - your missing the point - its not D3 <strong>or</strong> D3x, its D3 <strong>AND</strong> D3x :)</p>

I'd underwrite the production of an FF Digital Hexar. Doesn't seem much tougher than the 1-off 6x6 1700/4 from a year or two

ago.

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And maybe a Schneider 550/11, gotta have a good wide-angle :-) Even lottery money might be streched buying film for it

though.

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<p>Per-Christian - your missing the point - its not D3 <strong>or</strong> D3x, its D3 <strong>AND</strong> D3x :)</p>

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<p>Joseph, you're right. How foolish of me. Of course I need a D3x as a backup! ;)</p>

<p>Roger....I'll split that pursuit with ya on the digital FF Hexar.</p>

<p>Bodies: another D300, a D3 and a D3X<br>

Lenses: 600/4VR, 400/2.8VR, 300/2.8VR, 24-70, 17-55DX, TC17EII, TC20EII<br>

Flash: Sb900!<br>

Support: Er.... best gimal/tripod stuff.<br>

Misc: A driving licence :P<br>

M9 + a fast 40mm will be very very cool too :)</p>

<p>I would pretty much just want some more black and white film, paper and chem; maybe some trips. But, since it's the magic, imaginary lottery:</p>

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<li>I would like to set up a fat endowment; buy some equipment, get some professors paid, keep the supplies rolling in, and get a small business incubator financed. Complete with some computer gurus to get some web stores setup.</li>

<li>Phone call to Kodak about my Kodachrome order. </li>

<li>Phone call to Kodak about how that's not going to happen to Ektachrome.</li>

<li>Phone call to Pentax about where is my 645D? And how about a fresh K1000?</li>

<li>16mm movie transfers.</li>

<li>Gasoline. </li>

<li>Air fare, car rentals and hotel bills. Iceland, Canada, Alaska and Antarctica would all be on the list. About four extended stops in Africa; going to need a real hot female French translator for that one. India. Japan, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand. Visit every outlying island territory of the United States; Guam and Puerto Rico would be early-on stops. Chile and Peru. </li>

<li>Purchase a modest condo penthouse where I did this one photo shoot; humble digs for a multimillionaire; gut the place into a photo studio with a view; small one room apartment for myself to crash because I get into runs where it's all the time. Probably site of my new office. Make this thing a modern day Rembrandt House. </li>

<li>Homeless shelter for men. Expect my photography to be on exhibit in the lobby. </li>

<li>Bank accounts for the immediate family. Small allowance for close friends and people who have helped me out over the years. Probably jobs with my endowment for their kids or something, to help them get started in the world. </li>

<li>About 96 sets of body armor per year for journalists who would like to go abroad under the auspices of my new photo agency. Film stills and text only, because you're not going to do the job of a four man news crew by recording video and sound. </li>

<li>Library endowment for books in foreign languages. </li>

<li>Did we run out of money yet? Lookin' like MC Hammer's early years over here. I think I've got Billy Joel's old accountant.</li>

<li>Feel guilty. Start selling off some of these useless luxuries. Try to put somebody's kid through school. </li>

<li>Community college scholarships for ex-cons. Get them out of prison, and get them some updated life skills. </li>

<li>We've got a lot of people with disease and starvation; exactly how many billion is this lottery?</li>

<li>Generally, a steady supply of black and white film and chem and paper. I don't personally need anything anymore; bought some tools in my 20s, and have some camera gear. I'm done; I'm set. Maybe need replacement jeans and boot once a year; how about that bar tab? </li>

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<p>And, I'm gonna need a new skylight filter about once every two years, because I fumble and drop these cameras.</p>

<p>Zuiko 50/1.2, 40/2, 21/2, 24/2, 28/2, 35/2, 100/2, 135/2.8, 180/2, 250/2, 350/2.8, 35-80/2.8 then I'll sweet talk Zuiko in to going back in producing a limited run of the prototype 85/1.4, that or if they have a few sitting on a shelf acquire one. Oh, also a pair of OM-3.<br>

I guess for the heck of it I'd try my hand at 645 with a fairly complete Pentax 645 system.<br>

Lastly I might try my hand at this 'digital' thing with a 5Dmkii and a few lenses.</p>