On Jan 11, 2010, at 10:48 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > 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. > ^%
That's splitting hairs. Premium commercial photographers and top-drawer sports shooters for pubs like SI may rely on $5000 cameras, but many pro shooters work with less. I worked Detroit's North American International Auto Show today for the NY Times (as a writer, not a photographer, although they did use a couple of my shots that I grabbed with my P&S Panasonic.:-.) In any case, the majority of shooters who were on hand for the major dailies and car mags (hundreds in all) were shooting Canon 5D. The guy who was shooting for the Times had two Canon bodies but wasn't sure what they were. Seriously. He's a worker, not a camera buff. I looked at his gear. One body was a Canon 5D, the other appeared to be an early Canon 1D. It's the huge dollar commercial shooters and the wealthy wannabes who go for the top end stuff. Paul > -- > 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. -- 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.
