P. J. Alling wrote: >On 1/11/2010 9:18 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> Adam Maas wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:29 PM, P. J. Alling >> >>>> Funny but I would consider a camera with a street value of about four times >>>> what I paid for my K20d to be a high end body, which describes the 5DmII. >>>> >>> The 5D costs half of what Canon's high-end bodies do, and that matters >>> to Canon which does considers them amateur bodies >>> >> Under $2500 is not a high-end body in 2010. >> What would a Spotmatic sell for now, if corrected for inflation? How >> about an LX? >> >The economics have changed. The LX and the Spotmatic were designed to >last 20 to 30 years. Digital bodies are designed to last 20 to thirty >months before they're technically obsolete. The mechanical cameras were >more or less hand crafted. Digital cameras are assembled by robots and >the parts are almost grown. Costs and pricing are very different and so >are expectations.
That's all true. But a High-end camera is $3000 and up these days and that's a fact. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
