On 22/5/07, Digital Image Studio, discombobulated, unleashed: >I agree to an extent though I suspect our DSLR bodies are a lot more >fragile and will be significantly less long lived than their film >brethren due to mechanical/electronic failure more than sheer >obsolescence. I really don't expect my lenses or any one else's to >become obsolescent over night, some I've had for over 20 years and I'd >hope that they'll be useful for at least that again. State of the art >bodies to mount them on would help though.
That's an interesting thought. I just checked through a mountain of receipts to find when I bought my Canon 1DmarkII. September 2004. Nearly three years. Still feels like new. No significant knocks or scrapes to report. Never dropped, but not treated gingerly either. In three more years I would expect to still be using it daily. I don't know about in 6 more years - probably but wouldn't like to say. The Canon lenses will still be working in 3 years - dunno about 6. Electronic AF and AE (and IS inside one lens) mean that there's a lot to go wrong. I suspect the electronics will die before anything else. The two Pentax lenses I have (both manual focus metal dinosaurs, K15 3.5 and A*85 1.4) will undoubtedly outlast the lot. I would fully expect them both to be working for another 20 years at least, and with decent servicing, another 20 past that. So I might retire them when I'm 87. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
