Ah, excuse me, I thought we were talking about "value" not "market value."
You're lucky with your cameras then. The last three years of my "pro" career I went through five different camera bodies (two of them "professional" model cameras). On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godd...@mac.com> wrote: > > On Mar 20, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Nick Wright wrote: > >> How can the life-expectancy of a piece of equipment be "irrelevant" to >> its value? >> >> I believe that a piece of equipment which will last 30 years is of >> immensely superior value to something that will need to be replaced >> every two or three years. > > Please, let's not be ridiculous. I like old equipment too, but having an MX > just cleaned ... not needing any parts or repairs, just cleaned and adjusted > to work as new ... costs more than triple what the damn thing is worth on > the marketplace. Unless the camera has tremendous sentimental value to you, > and you plan to keep on using it for a very long time because you love using > it, it is not worth the money to repair one. If you must have one and yours > is broken, buy another one: it's more cost effective. > > Never mind the fundamental truth of photography today: film is dead. > Spending money to repair film cameras ... well, it just doesn't make sense > unless there's something particularly special about a particular camera that > you need or want for your photography. > > BTW, all of my cameras aside from the G1 are now over three years old. Two > of them were made in 2003-2004 (I bought them used a year ago), three in > 2006 (two bought new-old-stock in 2007). They're all working very nicely and > don't need to be replaced, nor does it look like they will need to be > anytime in the foreseeable future. > > Nor do they need repair. When they do, I'll do whatever is cost effective > between repair and replacement, and considering whether I prefer to keep > working with them or want to move on to newer equipment too. > > Godfrey > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- ~Nick David Wright http://www.nickdavidwright.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
