At 12:13 PM 4/12/2007, John Francis wrote: >On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 08:27:59PM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: > > Cotty wrote: > > >The median is about 3 years - I somehow thought this might be shorter. > > > > Oddly enough, despite DSLR's reputation for having a very short > > lifespan, I find I'm updating my main camera no more often with digital > > than I did with film (about 3 years) and that the amount I spend seems > > to hover around $1000.00. > > > > I went from PZ-1p to MZ-S to ist-D to K10D > > (OK, the Pz-1p was around $600.00, but after *that* the triannual > > expenditure leveled off ;-) > >Me too. In fact the PZ-1p purchase was pretty expensive, because >that was also when I first picked up some AF lenses (including the >28-105 zoom that's still doing sterling service). And the *ist D >was even worse - $1695 for the body, and $200 or so for the grip.
Not me. My first Pentax SLR was the Z/PZ-20 that I got in the early - mid 90's. It served me well until I upgraded to the *istD in 2004. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
