Well Bob I agree with you to a point, but its not always photographers that get caught up in that. Art directors and buyers of photography are just as likely to get caught up in the same rat race.
I never had the desire for a 20D. My 10D was close enough that I never considered the upgrade. The 6 vs 8 wasn't enough of a gain to even consider for me at the time and put what money I had elsewhere where it could do more good. The 30d wasn't really considered seriously.
I wanted the 5D, but a couple of extra thousand bucks just wasn't laying around. The 40D is a very significant increase and the 50 is over double the resolution. That starts to make sense for an upgrade, if the price is right.
Yet the more you spend the longer you can get buy with it. Spend the $8000 for a body and you likely will get a longer useful life out of the body. Checking out KEH, you don't see that many of the older bodies show up used very quickly after a new body comes out. Yet even at that level, yesterdays 15 mp $8000 body is todays 20+mp $8000 body with $1600 bodies now at the level of the old $8000 variety. It never ends.
A few years ago an EOS 1V was $1600 or so used, and now I see them available at the cost of a new digital rebel or less. Hmmm Guess its just part of an unavoidable condition. That's getting old. At the wife's office I am referred to as the same age as dirt, and they aren't far off. lol
--- On Tue, 12/9/08, Bob <w8imo@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Bob <w8imo@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Something I wonder if anyone else is considering
> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 12:58 PM
> Photographers, like many others, are caught up in the
> NNBNDNHI loop.
>
> *_N_*ot _*N*_eeded _*B*_ut _*N*_ext _*D*_oor _*N*_eighbor
> _*H*_as _*I*_t
>
> It started with, maybe, personal computers and moved on to
> HD TV, cell phones, PDAs, everything with electronics in it.
> I have a P3-6ooEB processor but the guy next door has a
> P3-4 800 , he has a cell phone that takes pictures so I
> need one too, and on and on.
>
> I have a 20D that I got quite a while ago and now I
> "need" a 40D or 50D because they're there! I
> haven't reached the point where the 20D doesn't do
> it for me any more, BUT the 40D and 50D are out there and
> the "guy next door has one"...... 8^)
>
> Bob
>
> mlent@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >
> > You know, I have to wonder about something, Mark...
> Maybe you're the guy who can answer this for me. I
> wonder why it is that photographers CAN'T use a digital
> camera for longer than a year or two? Why is it that we feel
> we have to have mind-crushing amounts of maga-pixels when a
> 6mp camera will produce excellent results for most print
> work? Why is it that we have to have THE latest gear?
> I'm not fussing at you, just kind of wondering out loud
> here. I have a D100 and a few D200's and I am perfectly
> content to use them and WILL use them for several more
> years. My clients are happy with the images they receive and
> quite honestly, I just don't see a need to upgrade to a
> D3x when what I have does the job and does it very, very
> well.
> >
> >
> > Just remember too that if you DO go back to film that
> the "digital" image you get from your scanner and
> the digital image generated within a camera are two very
> different beasts. Good luck with this and let us know what
> you've decided.
> >
>
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