Re: OT: Real world example of DSLR depreciation

[Cameron Hood]

    I got to try the D10 at Kerrisdale Cameras in Vancouver today. Nice 
machine; great build quality, excellent control layout, intuitive, good 
screen, magnesium body, pop-up flash with lots of clearance for big 
lenses, and better image quality than we will get with the *ist D. We 
put a picture into the computer and blew it up, and I could not find a 
bad pixel anywhere. The picture that I took was sharp as a tack, 
inspite of it being indoors, handheld, at IS 100. The lens was a 20-40 
Tamron, with no IS. Nice and quiet, fast, USB 2, excellent menus. They 
are $2400.00 Cdn, $1,000.00 less than the D100 was a month ago.

The *ist D better be less expensive, because I don't think it measures 
up in specs.

Cameron

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Cotty escribi�:
A well-known Canon dealer in the UK is advertising the D10 on 
pre-order
at 1499 GBP (with a 512MB CF card) - or 'your D60 and 500 GBP'. So if 
I
want to trade in my mint in box D60 and hand over 500 notes (the best
part of 800 USD) then I can have a brand new camera. Perhaps if I 
sold it
on the used market I might be looking at 1200 to 1400 quid.

This on a camera that cost 1899 GBP last September, although I was 
able
to claim back the tax, effectively making it about 1600 GBP. Still, 
you
can see the money literally leaking out of it!

As a sidenote, it seems that EOS D60's can still be bought new, at 
least
in my town. Today I saw a new one, at a discount price of 1460 euros.
They say they have reduced the price because they are expecting the new
10D to arrive in a few days' time.