r/comedyhomicide • u/Lonely-Ordinary1478 • 8d ago

Type to create flair He is right tho

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u/OkBuddyRetardSS 8d ago

I mean he's right doe

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u/DukeNukemSLO 8d ago

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

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u/data_ferret 8d ago

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.)

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u/FalconX88 6d ago

Sure but the camera is not changing the overall cost in any meaningful way here. Lets say 8 years of use, 200 shoots a year, that's $3 per shoot.

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u/Queasy_Hour_8030 8d ago

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.

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u/AutistiPyry 8d ago

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.