On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Rob Brigham wrote: > What we are suggesting is that you have 4 choices: > > Keep with the MZ-50 untilyou give up waiting for a similarly cheap > digital SLR and give a camera manufacturer a lot of your money.. > > Give a lot of money to a camera manufacturer for a DSLR before then. > > Be forced to accept what a 'non-slr' digi will do. > > Buy second hand DSLR (the only cheap way to own one) and help fund > someone else giving yet more money to a camera manufacturer for the > latest product.
I like Option 1 (if it lasts, say, 10 years, with film and processing costs at reasonable levels *by today's standards*). I like having Option 1 available (with the -5n obviously, and I hope to pick up a cheap Z1-p or MZ-S in the near future, just so as to handle these beasts for a couple of years), despite what most people (esp. those who still worry that they took the plunge too early) think about the disappearance of film. I presume/hope we are better shielded in the UK than folks in the US and Japan when it comes to film obsolescence. Consumerism is big here too, but not at the levels across the pond, I am lead to believe. I will just keep subsidising my friendly SME lab across the country as much as I can. Kostas
