On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Not even that low, they really start around $4500 (D3 or a 1D) and head up from there. The A900, D700 and 5DmII are the top-end of the amateur line. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
