Suggestions? No lens, no money.

[Infidel]

It will autofocus on your optic nerve. It's that ****ing intense.

Do I need a special adapter or something?

No, it interfaces with your eye like some Avatar ****.

Thanks for your help. I see that this lens sells for a little over $2,000,000. I should have mentioned that I don't have $2,000,000, nor do I expect to have $2,000,000 in the near future. I suppose I could quit my current job and become a professional athlete, but I'm not very good at sports, so that's kind of a non-starter. You see, my situation is like this: I want this lens, but I can't afford it. What should I do?

 

[o hey tyler]

Do I need a special adapter or something?

No, it interfaces with your eye like some Avatar ****.

Thanks for your help. I see that this lens sells for a little over $2,000,000. I should have mentioned that I don't have $2,000,000, nor do I expect to have $2,000,000 in the near future. I suppose I could quit my current job and become a professional athlete, but I'm not very good at sports, so that's kind of a non-starter. You see, my situation is like this: I want this lens, but I can't afford it. What should I do?

I'd make a post about it on The Photo Forum and try to evoke pity for yourself from fellow board members. Seems to be the best course of action.

Good luck! :thumbup:

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Those photographers are friendly, I don't know what's wrong with this forum.

Someday, you will become wise to the ways of the world.

Ahh, sweet, sweet, naïveté.



I looked at your photostream. Would you like an honest opinion, a nice pat on the head, or encouraging words?

Two of the options would land me in the friendly photographer pile.

 

[Sachphotography]

Shop for lenses on the used market. NOT at the Big Five web sites, where the retail prices are as high as the market will bear, but in podunk shops all up and down the west coast. Two weeks ago, I saw a used Nikkor 200mm f/2 VR, asking price $3,500; that lens new is much,much more expensive. When something really,really "new and awesome" hits the market, many,many amateurs trade in their older lenses in order to raise cash for the next best hot new thing. When the Nikon D100 was the "hot new thing", I picked up eight or nine mint-condition Nikon lenses over about a 18 month period, at absolutely ridiculous, bargain-basement prices, bought on CONSIGNMENT sale from a walk-in shop. One key is consignment sales--the store makes money selling even below the seller's asking price, with ZERO cash outlay...

Do not try and buy from those big-name web sites...look for stores in Portland, Seattle, Kenmore, San Fran, Oakland, San Jose, and San Diego. As well as Craigslist, and your local advertiser-type newspapers like The Nickle Ads.

Great points. I buy and sell all the time. Best deal I did was finding a canon 50mm f/1.2 for $75. Sodl for 400 on ebay 3 days later. I actually just bought a 200mm f/2 and played with it for a little while and sold it. I got it for 2850 and sold it for 3800. IT was not bad but was def a larger investment but it came out good. Flee markets and garage sales are a good place to buy from as many people want to get rid of things. I ran into a guy selling his mother in laws stuff and got a free 85mm 1.8 afd/ slik tripod and a couple other things. He had a lot of about 2000+ worth of gear on craigslist for 450. I helped him get around 1500 minus the free items he gave me. The only downside is you have to have money to make money like that.... Start small though and you can grow it. Most of my gear is paid for with money earned like this.

 

[Chiuy]

OT - maybe you could squeeze an English class in between your Biomedical Engineering classes?

When I was in High School I was in all AP classes and taking part time classes at the local community college (for free). And I saved up $9500 for my car, and plenty of other goodies including my XTi. I never got a penny from my parents for wants, but they covered all of the needs as in food, school supplies, and clothes once a year.

I was in your situation and I had time to get a job over the weekend. I was paid minimum wage for 4 hours a day and paid for my car in full and everything else I bought. It will never happen in your mindset that "I need a lens, but have no money". You do not need a lens, or even a DSLR for that matter. You ended up saving $400 for your camera so do the same for the other things you want. Save up your pennies and sell the stuff you consider "crap" on a local forum.

I made my money by a 8 hours a week job, packing my own lunch and keeping my $2 a week lunch money (I was on the discounted program because of my parent's income), and buying car parts and selling them on different forums for close to double the money. Now that I am at UCF, I do the same thing without having a job now, and have a rising income while paying for my own apartment, school, food, and everything in-between.

Pretty much, take all of the suggestions given to you and apply them to your situation. Or don't ask for help at all.

Please do correct me on my English. I have to admit, my English is quite poor. Why? Cause I'm only allowed to talk in Chinese with my parents and English was not my first language. I also had crappy English teachers, all we ever did was just talk and talk. I took College Prep classes, meaning all the crappy students that don't care about learning are in those classes and the teacher spends more time yelling at them than the actual teaching. I'm about to restart my entire English learning skills and begin with the basic grammar, etc. But please, do correct me even though I probably made a lot of mistakes. I'm not offended.

You have to consider this too though, back in your time, depending how old you are, mister, that classes of today are much harder than the classes back then. Our history book even got an extra 200 pages cause of politics and the war in Iraq, etc. Our Biology, Chemistry, and Physics book also got a lot bigger cause of new discoveries. Even math changes from time to time. And it really just doesn't help when you have teachers teaching you something that they don't even know what they're doing. I might consider a part job when I'm in a university, since I should have more free time cause of my AP Credits. And once again, thank you to everyone that gave me suggestions, I appreciated it.

And yes, economics applies to this, it's similar to this: pick two out of the three: Get Good Grades, Sleep, or Friends

 

[Chiuy]

Those photographers are friendly, I don't know what's wrong with this forum.

Someday, you will become wise to the ways of the world.

Ahh, sweet, sweet, naïveté.



I looked at your photostream. Would you like an honest opinion, a nice pat on the head, or encouraging words?

Two of the options would land me in the friendly photographer pile.

Please do comment with your honest opinion. I don't normally use Flickr cause there are restrictions on how much I can upload.
And I'm not saying that every photo I took is perfect, I think it's far from perfect compared to a lot of people. And I make a lot of silly mistakes but I don't really care and still upload it.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

You have to consider this too though, back in your time, depending how old you are, mister, that classes of today are much harder than the classes back then.

Oh no you didn't!

 

[Chiuy]

Oops, I apologize, after reading his posts again and that he was recently in college. My bad.
So you should know that AP Classes are quite stressful when you have like 6 of them and that you have very limited amount of time of finishing your homework.

@Bitter, but you do have to admit though, classes of today are much harder than the classes of yesterday. More information to absorb, even the standards are much higher. Even all my teachers said that the classes of today are harder than what they have learned.

 

[Sachphotography]

Oops, I apologize, after reading his posts again and that he was recently in college. My bad.
So you should know that AP Classes are quite stressful when you have like 6 of them and that you have very limited amount of time of finishing your homework.

@Bitter, but you do have to admit though, classes of today are much harder than the classes of yesterday. More information to absorb, even the standards are much higher. Even all my teachers said that the classes of today are harder than what they have learned.

I would have to disagree with the fact that classes are harder today than in the past. I think classes today are very dumbed down. Look at the difference between literature book in the past vs today. It is like comparing The Bible to the Cat and The Hat. LOL

 

[Chiuy]

Oops, I apologize, after reading his posts again and that he was recently in college. My bad.
So you should know that AP Classes are quite stressful when you have like 6 of them and that you have very limited amount of time of finishing your homework.

@Bitter, but you do have to admit though, classes of today are much harder than the classes of yesterday. More information to absorb, even the standards are much higher. Even all my teachers said that the classes of today are harder than what they have learned.

I would have to disagree with the fact that classes are harder today than in the past. I think classes today are very dumbed down. Look at the difference between literature book in the past vs today. It is like comparing The Bible to the Cat and The Hat. LOL

It really depends what classes you are looking at.
If you're looking at a CP class, they have lazy students that don't do any of their work and barely reads through 3 books for the school year.
AP Class on the other hand, we read 3 books over the summer and at least 20+ books over the school year. I would like to see you try and take these courses right now before you make any comments about it.
I don't really know anything about the past, so I don't really know anything, but back then, people were still discovering facts and methods on science, so it could have been hard to learn those new stuff.

In our biology classes, we are learning stem cells. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell
I don't believe you have to study those type of things back then? Stem cell research still has a long way to go.

 

[usayit]

We used a potty chart and reward my son with stickers to put on it when he goes to the potty. We expect him to continue to achieve progress long after we stop with the stickers. Seems to me OP skipped this particular valuable lesson......

Seems to me there's a lot life has to teach beyond those AP classes.... I dont know why i follow this thread. Each post reminds me of how much we have failed the next generation



Anyone have a quarter, OP probably got an A on an exam.... oh wait. should be a dollar as times are far more challenging these days.

 

[Derrel]

Don't you have a long list of elderly relatives, some of whom are, almost certainly, preparing to die soon, and to leave you all the funds you will need to make it in your life?
I mean, wouldn't that be a great way to get a new lens? Maybe have your grandmother die, and leave you some money? Or maybe your father's brother will get hit by a bus, and will will you his cameras! I mean, I know it sounds awful and all, but hey.... a high school kid HAS to have hope, right?

 

[o hey tyler]

We used a potty chart and reward my son with stickers to put on it when he goes to the potty. We expect him to continue to achieve progress long after we stop with the stickers. Seems to me OP skipped this particular valuable lesson......

Seems to me there's a lot life has to teach beyond those AP classes.... I dont know why i follow this thread. Each post reminds me of how much we have failed the next generation



Anyone have a quarter, OP probably got an A on an exam.... oh wait. should be a dollar as times are far more challenging these days.

Geeze, acting like you're sooooooooooo smart... But then you forget to figure out inflation? What were you thinking.

Ugh, noobs. I tell ya.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Oops, I apologize, after reading his posts again and that he was recently in college. My bad.
So you should know that AP Classes are quite stressful when you have like 6 of them and that you have very limited amount of time of finishing your homework.

@Bitter, but you do have to admit though, classes of today are much harder than the classes of yesterday. More information to absorb, even the standards are much higher. Even all my teachers said that the classes of today are harder than what they have learned.

I would have to disagree with the fact that classes are harder today than in the past. I think classes today are very dumbed down. Look at the difference between literature book in the past vs today. It is like comparing The Bible to the Cat and The Hat. LOL

It really depends what classes you are looking at.
If you're looking at a CP class, they have lazy students that don't do any of their work and barely reads through 3 books for the school year.
AP Class on the other hand, we read 3 books over the summer and at least 20+ books over the school year. I would like to see you try and take these courses right now before you make any comments about it.
I don't really know anything about the past, so I don't really know anything, but back then, people were still discovering facts and methods on science, so it could have been hard to learn those new stuff.

In our biology classes, we are learning stem cells. Stem cell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I don't believe you have to study those type of things back then? Stem cell research still has a long way to go.

I know your type. You think you because you are in AP classes, you are so SMRT, and know it all. I find you like to make unfounded sweeping generalizations, are judgmental, have a long way to go with your photography regardless what your "pro" friends tell you, and have that sense of entitlement so common with the spoiled youth of today, and landed yourself on my ignore list.

Saying you have a long way to go with photography wasn't meant as an insult. It's just a fact. You are young, and you have a long way to go for everything. Get used to it.

Sorry.

 

[Chamelion 6]

You have to consider this too though, back in your time, depending how old you are, mister, that classes of today are much harder than the classes back then. Our history book even got an extra 200 pages cause of politics and the war in Iraq, etc. Our Biology, Chemistry, and Physics book also got a lot bigger cause of new discoveries. Even math changes from time to time. And it really just doesn't help when you have teachers teaching you something that they don't even know what they're doing. I might consider a part job when I'm in a university, since I should have more free time cause of my AP Credits. And once again, thank you to everyone that gave me suggestions, I appreciated it.

And yes, economics applies to this, it's similar to this: pick two out of the three: Get Good Grades, Sleep, or Friends

Wow... You are in for a massive shock when you get into college.

I was in school then, I'm in school now and my son is in high school so I have a pretty good idea what level they're at. Physics is physics, neither Newton nor Galileo have published much since you've hit school. Biology is much the same, (stem cell research goes back to the early 60's), and the human body is still pretty muc the same as it was 30, 40 years ago... and there was plenty of history to learn before you got into school, several thousand years of it. Entire civilizations rose and fell before either of us were ever thought of.

Books don't get bigger, they loose stuff when they add stuff. I promise you, you've not even begun to touch higher level physics or biology or history. You're gonna be drudgeing through all the same basic basics we all drudged through.

There is a common theme through this thread. That you have it rougher and harder than everyone else... You seem to see yourself in this deep dark hole while everyone else is carefree. You seem fairly bright, but very sheltered.

You're far better off than you imagine.