Hi all,
I'd love your input here on a dilemma I'm facing at the moment.
I have put aside $3000 to purchase the 100-400mm Z lens when Nikon decides to launch it... maybe this year, maybe next year... who knows
. Anyway...
The problem is that I am more and more interested in printing my images because I'm starting to get tired of only being able to see them on a screen. On some screens the images look to dark, others to bright, others colors seems to be off... in some ways it's a bit disappointing when you spend hours/days sitting on an image, looking at it in Lightroom/Photoshop till you finally feel conformable with the editing and then, depending the screen you use to look at that photo, you wonder if that is indeed the best color, the best brightness, contrast you could have.
Been looking at the Canon Pro 1000 printer, which as far as I could read, is considered the best printer out there for the hobbyist and even professional photographer.
The "printing" investment that I would need to do would be a little higher than $2000 because I would not only need to buy the printer but also a new monitor since the ones I currently have none is 100% RGB.
So my question to you all is, what would you do? I know this is a personal choice, but from different point of views, we can better make a decision.
a) You grab the $3k you have put aside for the Z lens and invest in the printer because that lens can be months away to be released and in the mean time you can learn the art of printing, learn the art of editing for print?
b) You wait for the lens, keep photographing with the lens you have, keep learn the art of photography, keep getting out of the house, so when you get the 100-400, your photography knowledge will be higher, your images will be better, and more worthwhile to be printed?
Have you ever had some money set aside for something and all of the sudden you have an itch that will only stop when you spend that money?
Thanks