If you hit the lottery?

[anthony_brookes5]

It's very tempting to think that a lottery win would enable you to take better pictures but of course it wouldn't. I'm now in my seventies and I can honestly say that my pictures are no better now using a Leica than they were with an Ikonta in the 1950s a Werra and a Contaflex in the 1960s and a Contarex in the 1970s. I have used only Leicas since the 1980s and those taken with my Leica III are some of my favourite pictures. I won a competition with a photo from the Ikonta and one from the Contarex and I have sold a few pictures. Money can't buy good pictures. It can widen your ability to take pictures but that is all.

[Matthew Currie]

<p>Well, it would be nice if we all won the lottery, then we'd all end up somewhere exotic and photogenic and we could swap lies.</p>

[john_narsuitus]

<p>I would buy some GoPro stock.</p>

[bob_gentile]

<p>A digital back for my 4x5? Nah! I'm happy with all the gear I have now.</p>

[andrew_brown7]

<p>Get a cheap assistant 3-7 days a week....carry my gear....(3 Nex 6's and a couple of extra lenses, if I won bigtime)...... load my Sd cards for me...carry the tripod... no complaining.... and hold the umbrella for me to photograph the Scottish mountains in the rain. She would also have a solar powered battery charger in her hat for when the sun shone.<br>

Yup, that'd about cover it</p>

[Philipp500]

<p>I'd go looking for a Tamron 58 /1,2; Komura 85/1,4 (or maybe the EF 85/1,2) or the topcor 13,5cm/2; plus a Zuiko 180/2 and then I'd surely think of other stuff too. No darkroom activities here. Oh yes, maybe a EF 50/1,0 for the fun... Let's dream!</p>

[robert_hill11]

<p>Pretty much like the other Photogs here...a film factory, and perhaps one of those developers/processors to develop color film....and a chemical factory to make the "juice" for the aforementioned machine.....</p>

<p>And a Canon F-1.....</p>

[Glenn McCreery]

<p>If I hit the lottery, in addition to my normal film and digital photography pursuits, I would take up astrophotography with all the latest equipment. But that would take tens of thousands of dollars to keep up with the Jone's, let alone the Hubble's.</p>

[chuck_foreman1]

Pleased to see so many of us have our hearts in the right place... darkroom, printing LF etc Me too!

[Rob_the_waste]

<p>Something decent in 8x10. Then I'd build a darkroom and learn how to use it as I'd have no use for going to work. Everything else I have. :-)</p>

[Troll]

<p>Maybe a Leica A or even a Lexus?</p>

[jimmy_buzaid]

<p>With millions to spend who knows, I'd definitely go for every auction on ebay that looked decent. Maybe a Nikon Df cause' that camera looks really fun to use. I'm more into cheaper Japanese camera's than fancy Leica, but will millions of dollars, I'd definitely buy one or two.</p>