I've been fascinated by the replies. I appreciate the question has been asked before, but it's good to see where people are in March 2015.
One of the subjects that came up here time and again, and caused me considerable concern in the months before the *ist D was launched, was how technology was going to render new DSLRs obsolete within months of them coming out, they would lose all their value and/or they would break down or be unreliable and expensive to repair. Yet I look through your replies and see that whilst technology has indeed moved on at a considerable pace, the older DSLRs are still useful and regularly used cameras. My oldest DSLR is my K7, yet it doesn't feel outdated in any way. Values of older DSLRs have dropped, but they haven't become the worthless pieces of scrap I feared they may have been only a few years after they were new on the shelf. Also interesting to note is how many folk still have a Pentax somewhere in the line up (if not the only camera), and how other formats and camera designs are popular - and what excellent results they produce. And of course...film is still not dead! Malcolm -- 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.
