The down side to waiting

So I received my new credit card in the mail yesterday, but am still waiting for that check to come in. Not sure if I mentioned in a previous blog, that one of the advantages to the Rebel T2i was that it was about $400- $500 cheaper then the Panasonic. I had really looked forward to saving the cash, but as my over ambitious mind would have it, in my waiting period, I managed to find ways of spending that money.

Again, knowledge is both a gift and a curse. I did a lot of reading on lenses, and various accessories one might add to their camera setup, and found that, I too needed these accessories. I'll be honest, I probably don't need EVERYTHING I've got in my online shopping cart, but I think it's still a pretty conservative bundle of goodies.

I don't have the list in front of me, but let's see if I can recall off the top of my head. There is of course the camera, which comes with a 18- 55mm 4.5-5.6 lens as well as a canon ef 75-200mm lens. There is the shoulder mount rig, including accessory frame, and follow focus.
through this great website Adorama.com I would like to order a canon ef 50mm f1.8 AF lens (nice fast lens for cheap), and canon 85mm f3.5 i think, two 16gb SDHC cards, a card reader, a camera back pack, a lens cleaning kit, and Azden WLX wireless mic system, a hoodman loupe (for view finding on the camera's LCD) and I think that's it.
All told, it will probably end up costing about $2100 or there abouts. I will still need a tripod, but not right away so that will wait. When I planned the GH1 purchase, I figured it costing around $1700, but that was really just the camera, shoulder mount, a soft case, and an 8gb memory card.
For $400 more I will have a pretty tricked out camera set up, which will suit my immediate purposes, and hopefully be impressive enough to land me some paid work.