NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/rec/photo/19973

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From: [e-mail] (Anthony Tse)
Subject: Re: Camera Feature Wars - Photo Getting Like Video
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:29:27 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]= [e-mail] (Dyer Lytle  CCS) writes:
=In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
=>The other beneficiary, beyond the fast snapper (and I mean no slam) and the
=>battery-maker and the neophyte, is the camera vendor.
=
=Indeed, but the experienced camera user can also benefit from the introduction
=of new models since the older models, once superceeded by the new models,
=often find their way to the used market and can be picked up for quite a bit
=less than their new price.  Because of this, one can probably pick up a
=Nikon N8008, (by all accounts a fine, modern, AF camera), for quite a bit less
=than the new price 2 or 3 years ago.  Just don't buy the newest model, always
=wait a couple of models, you probably won't lose much in the process but
=you will save quite a bit of money.

    I wish this is true for outdated MF camera.  The price for a F1
has gone way out the roof.  I got mine for $600 a few years back new,
now an used one cost about the same.  And Canon don't even make FD
lens anymore.

-Anthony