Rob, Right on! The depreciation has nothing to do with mass production. It has to do with the fact that 10 years old PC is nothing but a pile of junk in a beige case.
Christ, one can pick up DEC stations for less then $100, even though they have never been *mass* produced and were state of the art and cost tens or hundreds kilobucks 10-20 years ago. Compare to ME-S, which had been mass produced, has almost zero collecor's value, and if you can find one MIB, that would cost you basically as much as at the time it was introduced. The same goes with Rolleicords or any other cheap, rugged and reliable. My point: any revolutionary technology (er... I really mean "computer" technology) becomes junk pretty fast, no matter how cool and expensive it is. Mature technology keeps its (boring) value forever (well, maybe not, but it fares much better anyway) Mishka > You seem to miss the fact that DSLR technology is advancing in leaps > and bounds. While prices may not decrease significantly, quality of > newer models will certainly increase. This means that resale value > of old DSLRs will rapidly drop when a new model is released. This is > why they are like computers - it does not necessarily have anything > to do with volume sales. HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
