At 12:32 PM -0500 1/23/02, William Clark wrote:
You are right, he would be merrily using it. The problem is suppose
it had the same problem 2 years from now and no parts were available
(remember N*ikon told him it was hard to find them now) He, and
rightly so, would be furious. I think that is the point. Hopefully
people would not have such an experience. What would you do if you
spent $2000-$3000 on a camera and 4 years later found out that know
parts were available for a problem? I certainly would not be happy
spending that amount of money without some type of support. This is
kinda like buying an American car ;> (bg).
Or a PC. Try buying RAM for a four-year-old computer. If you can
_find_ it, it's expensive. I had a two-year-old PC once for which it
was difficult to buy a better video card (not that the one it came
with was good at all); the standard (VLB) was dead in the marketplace
. New Windows versions routinely obsolete not-so-old computers which
don't have the necessary hardware "oomph" or some other obscure BIOS
connection to the software.
Most people extend the "it's newer and it's much better" thinking
about computers to other electronic devices, so it doesn't bother
them so much to replace a US$600 digital camera. And at least it's
not a US$2,000 PC. Whoever posted about the proliferation of 35MM and
MF cameras was right on, though -- it's a mature technology. Why
should the improvements be only in marketing?
Steve
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