in forums and stuff writing down problems then you really know what you're buying speaking of forums whether it's a car or a camera i will go to the owner's forums the enthusiast forums yeah and look at what people are saying you're always going to have people complaining about problems but look at the severity of those problems if they're mine if they're minor things like how do i make this work yeah that's okay go ahead and get that piece of equipment if they're huge complaints like this piece of equipment stopped working completely how do i fix it or there's oil on the sensor remember that nikon dNUMBER_TOKEN yeah there was like a recall so maybe stay away just a good way to assess a particular model see i think forums can be really biased because we bought a car and there were a lot of fanboys in the forums and there were real problems happening and they people would ignore them because they spent so much money on the car yeah but that's tesla fanboys they're a special breed but i do but my bigger point is that take information from multiple places like forums have value um like reviews have value but none of that exists for new brand new gear because people haven't they don't have it yet yeah um and like in the same vein as that argument once things have been out there for a while then you'll really understand the camera so you'll have all the troubleshooting the hacks the information on the forums it's the devil you know right yeah yeah okay so we've been making an argument for buying use thank you for helping me i guess i'll help you make your argument being too balanced about it um one thing i know we're definitely not going to argue about is the fact that you need your own squarespace website because if you were trying to book gigs or if you're even trying to just show off your work to your friends you want them to see it in a clean area where they're seeing your best photos first and not just in chronological order like on social media right and not only that this is the perfect time of year to sell your prints and make a little extra money and you can do that on squarespace i started doing that and it's so much fun to show people what a gallery version of your photo would look like so go to URL_TOKEN chelsea and you can get a NUMBER_TOKEN for day free trial no credit card needed you don't have to remember to cancel and when you decide to buy it which i know you will you can get NUMBER_TOKEN off with the coupon code chelsea that's SHORT_HYPHENATED_TOKEN and i'm pretty happy with mine but so we're talking about whether you should buy used gear and how to do it yeah and i want to make an argument for new gear and that is it has a new gear warranty oh how many times have you used that oh sorry i'm supposed to be helping you i actually don't think i've ever used a warranty on a piece of new equipment because while i've broken gear that kind of stuff isn't covered under warranty anyway you're still paying for the repair but it is nice to have that extra assurance now a lot of used places like proper stores will offer their own warranty and that's very valuable but you have to send the gear back to them and if you're like us where you're a
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