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JVthePT wrote:
I'm currently selling my 70d and my 6d in order to fund either a 7dII, 1dIV or 5dIII. While scouring through the classifieds here and POTN, I noticed a lot more 5dIII's than I usually see for sale and many at the lowest prices I've seen.
What's driving this? The new 7dII? People jumping ship to Nikon or Sony?
Oh, and if anyone has suggestions for one of the 3 cameras Im interested in, feel free to offer it, I'll take all the input I can get.
I think that the explanation for the eventual "Why are these so many X's for sale?" posts is simple, for the most part.
1. When a camera is first introduced there are almost none for sale on the used market for obvious reasons. As time goes on, there are simply more copies of the camera out there and the used market continues to grow as long as the camera remains in production.
2. At the point that a replacement model (or extremely compelling alternative) is likely to be introduced, and especially when it actually is introduced, the number of people upgrading increases the number of units for sale on the used market.
In addition, it is a natural feature of markets that as the average age of the units increases, as more of them are available, and as the price of new units decreases (as it has most certainly done with the 5D3) the used prices will continue to decline. That is true of computers, cars, cameras, you name it.
At this point, I think that the major explanation for whatever number of 5D3 you see on the market is the first one listed above.
Dan
Edited on Dec 13, 2014 at 07:36 PM · View previous versions
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