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Maybe not the latest thing, but does anyone know if the Canon 1v is still being made?
Some people change their photographic equipment more often than they change their underwear.
Maybe not the latest thing, but does anyone know if the Canon 1v is still being made?
Currently I shoot Nikons. Do any of you get tierd of all the new product annoucements like lenses and flashes? To me it is like becoming like the smartphone industry but not 1 yearly. ...
Well Steve you never know when you will get run overSome people change their photographic equipment more often than they change their underwear.
Back in the days of film a photo store would earn a large part of its sales from film, paper, chemistry and development. The customer would buy a camera and come back on a regular basis to buy more film etc. With digital the customer is gone if he cannot be persuaded to buy new cameras or accessories on a regular basis. You have to persuade the customer that the reason that his pictures are not what he expected is that he needs the latest version of camera and not that obsolete crap he bought some months ago, hence the need for more ads.
With film the customers need to come back to the store but with digital you have to create the need.
Back in the days of film a photo store would earn a large part of its sales from film, paper, chemistry and development. The customer would buy a camera and come back on a regular basis to buy more film etc. With digital the customer is gone if he cannot be persuaded to buy new cameras or accessories on a regular basis. You have to persuade the customer that the reason that his pictures are not what he expected is that he needs the latest version of camera and not that obsolete crap he bought some months ago, hence the need for more ads.
With film the customers need to come back to the store but with digital you have to create the need.
Well Steve you never know when you will get run over
Currently I shoot Nikons. Do any of you get tierd of all the new product annoucements like lenses and flashes? To me it is like becoming like the smartphone industry but not 1 yearly.
Maybe part of that is I prefer to shoot a manual Nikon and I like to move to medium format. At the end of the day, it does give people more choice, might cost more money, people may have even more lenses to cater to each different shooting environment / job. For myself that is for non-income enjoyment it's spending thousands of dollars to make a couple of prints. I rather go overseas and use my current equipment.
Boy, you Nikon shooters are lucky. I haven't seen any new product announcements from Zeiss Ikon for my Contax II in a quite a while now
Tired, you say?
Yes, the digi industry is pathetic to me. The users also are clueless victims thinking they're experts.
You should read their "recomendations" to new users (while they're new to the game theselves), it's scary stuff!
And the nomenclature!! Xt1, tx1, tx-1, t-x1, 1xt,1-xt,1x-t, then add a 2 in there.
And the lenses!
Look at this: nikon 200mm AF-S VR-2 G N D APO FX
Total bull.
In his shortsYou will still find skid marks
It's good thing these sorts of things never happened in the analog days! In the old days, everyone who talked like an expert really was one. And Nikon's lenses carried designations like the "35mm Happy Face Maker!" so that you knew exactly what it was for. And there was only one version that never ever changed! And why should it? They only had one model of camera that it worked with.
In his shorts
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