How to get to full frame without breaking the bank

[BananaRepublic]

1 Save a dollar a day for 3000 days, allowing for inflation milk & cigarettes

2 Buy second hand.

 

[astroNikon]

You'll get more money selling your lenses by yourself than sending them in.
Look at places that sell used lenses, KEH, Adorama, etc
then, for a rule of thumb think half of online selling price (?) for your trade in value.

But I've never traded in a lens though so ask other people that have. In the past I've sold all my own lenses.

 

[Dave442]

I would look to have $2000 and sell what you have (hopefully that is worth $1000) for a used D600 and a used lens or two.

 

[Daniel The Cool]

Me personally from experience, I would keep using the Canon until you master it (Meaning get good results to the point you're ready to move up). FX there alot you need to learn with it (Hell I'm still learning with my Nikon D610) and the old saying It's Not The Camera, It's The Person Behind the camera. Well just a suggestion

 

[Peeb]

Me personally from experience, I would keep using the Canon until you master it (Meaning get good results to the point you're ready to move up). FX there alot you need to learn with it (Hell I'm still learning with my Nikon D610) and the old saying It's Not The Camera, It's The Person Behind the camera. Well just a suggestion

Thanks, Daniel. Done and done. That's why I'm wanting to move on.

I've been through:

Kodak Instamatics (approx. 1972- the adventure begins!)
Polaroid Land cameras
Canon Cannonet GIII
Yashika FR (my first SLR, circa 1978)
Nikon FG20 (1980s)
Canon EOS Rebel Film Camera (2000)
Nikon D40 (2001)
Canon T3i (2014)

I can't even recall the myriad of wide-angle, telephoto, zoom, specialty lenses I've been thru (some amazing- some awful).

I've had formal and informal training, and shot film and digital all across the US and Western Europe (even a short stint in your NYC!). Really wanted to like the T3i, but just can't quite love it.

This isn't a thread about a newbie who thinks a new toy will make him smarter or more artsy- I realize that it's first the artist, then the glass then the box (in that order in my opinion).

PS- at my age, 'waiting unitl I get better' is not a viable option- who knows if I'll even be able to still focus on the far horizon tomorrow- heck, I won't even buy green bananas! The time for results is now. I've got the means to do this and it's gonna happen one way or another. Thanks to all for your kind input on how you would proceed. I don't disagree with your sentiment, Daniel.

 

[tirediron]

Dude, this is photography. Break the bank now and get it over with. You know you're going to do it sooner or later anyway. No point in postponing the inevitable.

 

[Bryston3bsst]

Dude, this is photography. Break the bank now and get it over with. You know you're going to do it sooner or later anyway. No point in postponing the inevitable.

Yea......c'mon.......start buyin', start shootin'!

Let's see some pictures with the new camera!

 

[chuasam]

Curious - you keep switching between Canon and Nikon

 

[Derrel]

Curious - you keep switching between Canon and Nikon

Facile comment. Utterly so. Those are the two biggest-selling brands, and have been since, oh, 1974. How did you miss the Kodak,Polaroid, Yashica models? The guy is old enough to be your grandfather, and he happened to buy TOP-selling models each time he was in the market for a new camera, over an over FOUR-DECADE time span!

OMG--a horrible thought just hit me--he might also have alternated between Coke and Pepsi during that time frame as well!! He might have alternated between Charmin and Angel Soft toilet paper too! And, OMG--what if he also alternately bought BUTTER in the 1970s and then MARGARINE in the 1980's when everybody said butter was horrible for one's health--and then went back to butter in the 1990's, after margarine and partially hydrogenated oils were determined to be bad for one's health!

;-)

 

[astroNikon]

Curious - you keep switching between Canon and Nikon

Facile comment. Utterly so. Those are the two biggest-selling brands, and have been since, oh, 1974. How did you miss the Kodak,Polaroid, Yashica models? The guy is old enough to be your grandfather, and he happened to buy TOP-selling models each time he was in the market for a new camera, over an over FOUR-DECADE time span!

OMG--a horrible thought just hit me--he might also have alternated between Coke and Pepsi during that time frame as well!! He might have alternated between Charmin and Angel Soft toilet paper too! And, OMG--what if he also alternately bought BUTTER in the 1970s and then MARGARINE in the 1980's when everybody said butter was horrible for one's health--and then went back to butter in the 1990's, after margarine and partially hydrogenated oils were determined to be bad for one's health!

;-)

Just trying to see if there's a correlation here .. are you also stating that Canon is bad for one's health ??

 

[Bryston3bsst]

Just trying to see if there's a correlation here .. are you also stating that Canon is bad for one's health ??

Correlation between what?

 

[Derrel]

Just trying to see if there's a correlation here .. are you also stating that Canon is bad for one's health ??

Correlation between what?

Correlation between bad joke efforts and AstroNikon's post count? (I'm going with that...)

 

[Bryston3bsst]

Just trying to see if there's a correlation here .. are you also stating that Canon is bad for one's health ??

Correlation between what?

Correlation between bad joke efforts and AstroNikon's post count? (I'm going with that...)

Wooooo........you go girl!

 

[astroNikon]

Just trying to see if there's a correlation here .. are you also stating that Canon is bad for one's health ??

Correlation between what?

Correlation between bad joke efforts and AstroNikon's post count? (I'm going with that...)

Just trying to learn from the master and catch up with you Derrel ...

 

[waday]

Coke is better than Pepsi.

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