On 11 Feb 2006 at 15:04, Bob W wrote: > I don't like new, pristine camera equipment. I can only feel comfortable > with it when it's been through the wars a bit. When I got all my Contax gear > new I felt very intimidated by it until it had been scuffed around on > railway floors, dropped from apple trees, scraped in the bilges of fishing > boats, and generally lived a bit.
The point in a products lifetime where it acquires its first dings/scratches etc always makes me feels annoyed with myself that I let it happen (however inevitable) but at the same time is fairly liberating. That point is also the threshold where one more ding won't really make too much of a difference. This is why I really don't mind buying used because someone else has had to deal with break-in traumas and I effectively get a discount for their guilt :-) Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
