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What's an expensive purchase you've made recently and was it worth it? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Depends on what someone thinks of as expensive.

But I had been saving up for a new digital SLR.

I had bought an okay point and shoot years ago, and couldn't justify replacing it just because. Then the thing disappeared. Tore the house apart looking for it. Nada. Nobody has been in the house where it was stored at all, so my best guess is that I did something like loan it to someone while half asleep, or otherwise go brain dead and shove it somewhere weird.

Anyway, looked at my budget, guesstimated what I could afford, what I'd need to take the kind of pictures I wanted, and bloody well picked up a decent enough Canon. More camera than I need, but that also means I can use it until it falls apart and be plenty satisfied with anything I shoot. I mostly take pics of my chickens. But they're good pics.

Makes me wish I'd done it ages ago. Not that the pics the previous one took are bad, these are just better.