Damn, how did lose become loose??? I'd swear that Thunderbird's spell
checker has it in for me.
On 3/22/2015 10:15 AM, P.J. Alling wrote:
As long as a DSLR still functions it won't loose all "value", but it
may become impossible to monetize that value. It's interesting in a
way that a thing can be technically obsolete without being
functionally obsolete.
Because I own one, I've done a little research into the Kodak
medalist, and it's successor the Chevron, the Medalist was technically
obsolete when the Chevron it's nominal replacement was introduced.
The Medalist was still just as capable of taking excellent photographs
as before, and in many ways was a superior piece of equipment,
Cheverons have not aged well, especially since the sported an advanced
leaf shutter boasting a maximum, and at the time unheard of, shutter
speed of 1/800. Unfortunately those shutters were prone to
catastrophic failure if a second set of shutter blades that made that
astonishing shutter speed possible were not absolutely free of
contamination.
As an aside Kodak tended to reuse names, Medalist was used on three
entirely different format still film Cameras, a line of B&W photo
paper, and a line of slide projectors. Chevron on at least one film
camera, an 8mm movie camera and a line of slide projectors. It makes
web searches for information interesting.
On 3/22/2015 6:04 AM, Malcolm Smith wrote:
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outdated in any way.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
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