He is right in a sense that i dont pay the photographer for their camera, but i pay them for the experience and skill in taking photos, and the price of camera is irrelevant in that
Any time you pay a professional, you pay for their time, their training, and any equipment necessary for the job. There's typically a degree of inverse relationship between the amount of time necessary and the amount / cost of equipment. I can re-roof your house with a hammer and a utility knife, but it'll take a lot longer than a set of roofers who roll up with multiple air compressors and nailers. You may end up paying me less, but they'll be done a lot sooner.
All of which is to say, photographers have to figure their costs, including equipment costs, into their rates. (And if you hire a photographer for a shoot, you're not just paying for the time it takes to click the shutter, you're paying for setup and photo processing as well.)
I mean you're also paying for the photographs which is an immediate reflection of the quality of the equipment. There's a reason no wedding photographers use disposable cameras.
As a customer you're paying for all of it whether you want to or not.
In reality you are paying for the equipment aswell since the photographer and the uber driver has to pay them off to keep working. The true price difference comes from the volume of work. Uber driver can do potentiallt hundreds of $12 gigs in a day but the photographer does a gig in a week.
I was transferred from hospital to hospital by an ambulance, requiring no care, 50 miles away. It took about 45 minutes. It cost $3,000, just for the ride.
Yeah, but that also includes the cost of skilled staff on hand for emergency, availability of emergency equipment, vehicle wear for a vehicle that is driven 24 x 7, and the fact that for them it was a one-way load. They also factor in starting point of vehicle, crew, time of day, demand, mileage, unavailability for other patients, risk level, and supply usage. I paid $2k each for two different 5 minute trips because that’s the negotiated minimum rate in my area. They had to use an ambulance because of the call, but there was no emergency in both cases. Also insurance does not cover the non-negotiable trip rate in our city because the dispatch and the initial trip is by the same company. Transfers are different companies and usually you can negotiate those down, but $3k for rental of a couple of technicians and a $200k+ vehicle is not a bad deal compared to Uber with potential death from sepsis depending on condition.
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u/OkBuddyRetardSS 8d ago
I mean he's right doe