Another point that's come to mind is that you are going to have 7 people all paying the same money, and therefore all thinking they have equal rights on when they can use the facilities. There will be peaks and troughs. Large numbers of people will want to use the place at the same time. Who negotiates who gets priority? 7 simultaneous bookings for a mid-morning on a Saturday is going to take a bit of diplomacy to sort out.
Also, the users are going to spend even more time editing and post-processing than they are taking photographs. Who decides who is going to use the computer/printing facilities? The guy using the studio shooting tethered? The guy who's client is screaming for his prints? Before I bought a 2nd PC it was bad enough with my wife and I battling over who got to use the computer. With 7 people all paying good money for the facilities, it's going to be a nightmare.
7 people all using the same studio? That means on average they'll only have use of it one day a week. That's not enough to earn a living, even if there were no clashes in who gets to use it.
Why buy a P65? The kind of people who will be using the studio will have their own cameras. Can you imagine the argument that would happen if 'tog 1 finishes his session and 'tog 2 comes along and finds all the camera settings have to be redone from scratch because of the way the other guy left it? Or even worse, didn't realise there was some subtle setting that was left untouched, meaning the results were near useless?
This whole scheme is a recipe for disaster. Forget it.
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