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Not really. He had a very successful ecommerce business[0], so he had some money to spend on his new hobby, which is a non trivial point I suppose, but as far a
by CPLX 9y ago
Not really. He had a very successful ecommerce business[0], so he had some money to spend on his new hobby, which is a non trivial point I suppose, but as far as I can tell he picked up photography for the first time in his 40's.
[0] https://www.balkowitsch.com https://www.balkowitsch.com
- foobarian 9y agoSounds like he followed Phil Greenspun's instructions [1]! "The Easy Way Step 1: Read Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing Step 2: With your new $250/hour skills, build a database-backed Web service for a Fortune 500 company. Step 3: Take the money collected in Step 2 and purchase a couple of Canon or Nikon bodies and every lens in the respective manufacturer's product line. The only problem with this approach is that, once you've got a cabinet filled with lenses, you still have to figure out which to take out for a particular project and how to use it effectively. If you're rich, read "get" in the following headlines to mean "take out of cabinet". If you're not rich, read "get" to mean "buy from one of the photo.net recommended retailers"." [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20030401081311/http://www.photo.net:80/equipment/35mm/building-an-slr-system https://web.archive.org/web/20030401081311/http://www.photo....
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