I wishI were this guy's daughter...

The gears were bought with good intentions and $1,500 is not a whole lot of money when tuition for a single class is close to or far exceeds that in some schools. When it comes to education, I think this kind of money is easily justified.
 
Wow. That's a really nice selection. I once went to a used car dealer and saw this Nissan with like 17 miles on it. I asked the dealer about it and the story was that the original owner bought the car for his daughter then he found out she was using marijuana and so he sold the car.
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
I think the problem was this guy bought this stuff for a kid who had no interest previously in photography and was going to take her very first class. The guys on RFF giving expensive cameras to their kids are giving the gear to kids who have demonstrated a love for photography already. Also, the RFF members already own the gear they give the kids, didn't rush out and spend a fortune on a bunch of lenses all at once to get the kid started.

I saw this a lot in Santa Fe when I lived there. I worked at a camera store there for a while when I first moved there. Had a man come in one day, said he wanted to buy his teenage son a camera to use for a high school photography class. The very first photo class the kid was ever going to take, and the man admitted the kid had never done any photography before.

Lots of parents buy their kids a camera to take photography in high school. Most buy a used 35mm SLR, or if the class requires digital, one of the cheaper D-SLRs like one of the Canon Rebel models. Most of these parents needed help picking out a camera because they didn't know anything about cameras, which was fine, I could help with that.

This guy who came in didn't need my advice, though. He did his research online. Googled something like "What's the BEST digital camera made?". His research led him to the Nikon D2x, which was Nikons top of the line at the time. It cost $5500! Just for the body! For a kid who had never done anything with photography before! I told the guy that MY dad didn't love me that much, and that even as a professional photographer I did not have a D2x, and I asked him to adopt me :p
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Thanks Chris, I laughed out loud when I read that!:D
Regards,
Brett
 
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