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jim allison wrote:
Hi Lance,
I'm so old my first camera was a Daguerotype Are you arguing that not having the cost of film and processing cancels out the depreciation of used digital equipment? That is certainly true to some extent, but what I'm having difficulty understanding is why Apple can make high tech products that hold their value and camera makers and Nikon in particular can't.
I think that Apple understands and expects people to hold on to their equipment, whereas Nikon doesn't want people to hold on to their cameras and takes shortcuts with quality control and churns out new cameras models much too rapidly. They appear to me to be a very poorly managed organization that is trading on a once great, but now tarnished reputation. That's not to say that they don't make some great stuff. In my opinion they never should have gotten into the consumer slr and point and shoot businesses and should have concentrated on higher end quality stuff. They never were a mass market company. ...Show more →
What drives second hand prices is what people are prepared to pay for them and what new products are released and how much of a leap in technology they have achieved. That's just basic supply and demand and technology advancement. Nikon can't sit on it's hands whilst there is new technology for the ready or they'll be left behind. You can't expect Nikon to not introduce a D800 or a D810 just so that second hand camera prices are kept high, they will lose market share to Canon and also Sony who is moving quite quickly into the market specifically targetting those Nikon users. The D800 was the one thing that put Nikon back on the map, just like the D700 did. Also, you can't use Apple as an example as - sorry for this - you are not comparing apples to apples. If you want to use examples, why not look at TV prices, buy a 55" TV last year and it's almost worthless this year simply because of technology upgrades. I'm sorry, but you can't blame Nikon for the second hand camera prices, that is just a fact of technology getting better by the second, we demand better cameras and Nikon delivers. There are threads everywhere where people are wondering where the D900 is with the 54Mp sensor! So, who's driving the push for better cameras? Nikon? The Users?, The competition? I think all three and it's not necessarily a bad thing, that's just progress. As I keep saying, I don't see how people can think that a camera is an investment, it's almost a disposable commodity with the way technology is advancing, and like I said, it is way cheaper than film.
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