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- From: yen@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Tony Yen)
- Subject: Re: Canon MF Cameras, was Camera Feature Wars
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.201721.5934@spdc.ti.com>
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- References: <13850@texsun.Central.Sun.COM> <1992Nov17.181239.22048@noao.edu> <BxvKt4.Av9@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:17:21 GMT
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- In article <BxvKt4.Av9@ra.nrl.navy.mil> tse@ra.nrl.navy.mil (Anthony Tse) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.181239.22048@noao.edu= lytle@noao.edu (Dyer Lytle CCS) writes:
- >=In article <13850@texsun.Central.Sun.COM> dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM 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 I wish this is true for outdated MF camera.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
-
- Alas. However, Canon still makes the F1 and will support it till the year
- 2000. This is official. It is true that the selection of FD lenses is getting
- poorer. Personally I would love to see Canon come out with F2 = F1 + TTL
- flash metering and mirror lock-up.
-
- Tony Yen
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