Is it a camera or a car? Those really expensive things

[Shadowman]

Hi,

O, I think that instead of psychiatry I'm going into surgery and send my curriculum to UK-Nationa Health System =D.
As for watches, hmm, I like them very much too, and if I had money, surely I'd buy expensive watches, even knowing that I don't need them and most of the price is only brand. By now the most fanciest I have is a Tissot

As for the cameras, I liked these comments about the images. I guess that for most of the laypeople in photography, me included, it's hard to notice the real difference between two cameras above a certain level of quality. And the other problem is when you buy something that you have no idea how that work. At this very moment, I barely know how to use my Canon Sx20 so, a higher level camera wouldn't make much difference for me. By the way, one of the reasons of my photography learning is this camera. I've bought it one week before travelling. When I came back I realised that the pictures were nice, but should be much better, than I concluded that I should learn "how to use this machine". But I'm not that bad, I read in a photo magazine that a photographer ran into it after buying a DSLR and considered that it was a shame to use such a camera in automatic mode .

Thank you all for the responses.

The Watch: It's just a timepiece so anything that lasts a few years will do. My sleeves are too long so no one would see it anyway so it wouldn't do well as a status symbol for me.

The Car: It's for transportation, you'd need at least two because who wants to put soggy groceries or children in a Ferrari. Where's the trunk space or back seat when you need one?

The Camera: Quality of image, again not really a status item, we spend most of our time trying to be inconspicuous with it anyway. As far as costs go, I'd be more inclined to spend it on lenses, especially if it meant keeping more distance between me and the hungry lions I might be photographing.

[rob marshall]

The Watch: It's just a timepiece so anything that lasts a few years will do. My sleeves are too long so no one would see it anyway so it wouldn't do well as a status symbol for me.

I normally try not to use the term.... but LOL!

PS: Is that why Rolex wearers also wear short-sleeved shirts?

[Colin Southern]

PS: Is that why Rolex wearers also wear short-sleeved shirts?

No; a fake -- ahem, sorry, -- "replica" Rolex would be fine for that (at 1/10th the cost). I wear mine for my pleasure,