Nikon D1, 1999 model, currently on Ebay with 4 bids so far, http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2953497846&category=43456 started at $800 USD, currently up to $935 USD. LOL Dan C. At 08:33 AM 30-09-03 -0400, Emily L. Ferguson wrote: >The problem with your request as I see it, Andy, is that all the >digis I see at the low price end are push-here-dummy cameras. This >is simply a result of the direction that camera marketing has taken >in the last 10 years. In film cameras the disposable now completely >dominates the market. In the digi market the point-and-shoot >dominates. The consumer snapshooter wants to get some pictures, not >fuss with changing lenses and selecting exposure times and apertures. >And this person is willing to expend more than a couple hundred bucks >only for some hyped feature like more megapixels, when most of them >can't even figure out how to get pictures printed from their cameras. >Many of them can't even figure out how to plug in their connector >cords and open the picture program so they can download their >pictures into their computers. Most of them don't even realize that >they can download and erase their storage cards and reuse them. They >keep buying more cards, instead. > >So finding an off-the-shelf digi in that price range that gives one >any control at all except to zoom seems extremely unlikely to me. > >Worse than that, if you do find one, it won't be on the shelf for >long. Within six months it will have been displaced by the next >model with more megapixels. > >So I'd suggest that you recommend looking on eBay for a small >collection of D1s (Nikon) and whatever the original Canon digital >semi-pro or pro model was two years ago, and gather them together for >your teacher's project. Not only will these used first generation >pro and semi-pro digis be better built and last longer, but they may >also be reparable a couple of years from now. And maintenance can be >done on them as well. > >All those cheap digis are disposable in both the sense that you can >pitch them when they don't work anymore (because they're so cheap) >and also in the sense that they're going to be superceeded by some >bigger megapixel version in a few months. >-- >Emily L. Ferguson >mailto:elf@cape.com >508-563-6822 >New England landscapes, wooden boats and races, press photography >http://www.vsu.cape.com/~elf > >
