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ckcarr wrote:
Since I keep spreadsheets on all kinds of stuff I have one here that may or may not be of interest.
It's only reasonably accurate when comparing current used prices versus MSRP. The annual drops in value are smoothed by time, where obviously camera bodies take a far greater "depreciation" hit in the first year or two. In the accounting world we would call that accelerated depreciation, like Double declining balance (among others). But I don't have annual information, only then and now. I just checked current used selling prices off the FM buy & sell, and just made a rough grab of asking prices. Of course the range can be wide, dependent on condition and mileage.
It's just something to look at.
Kind of brought on by the Nikon Df value thread.
Actually, most doesn't matter to me since I usually buy new... And pass the savings on later...
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Definitely of interest, to me. Thank you so much for posting this information. I've almost always bought used, with the exception being my very first DSLR (Olympus E500) I bought when I started out to learn 9 years ago.
I own two D700 cameras and love them, but I'm also looking to get a D800e now too. I want the higher resolution camera so that I get more allowance for cropping in certain situations and also to make very large prints for future unit stills work.
I was getting frustrated trying to keep track of asking prices (US and CAD, as I'm in Canada), along with the actual currency exchange rates bobbing around. The ones I'd seen here in Canada, I felt were overpriced -- almost close to an D810 price. The US deals I saw (which would have *still* been great even with crazy exchange rate) were for US buyers only.
Thanks again, for this. I can use it as a rough guideline.
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