New products - getting sick of them?

[alanrockwood]

Maybe not the latest thing, but does anyone know if the Canon 1v is still being made?

 

[Sirius Glass]

Some people change their photographic equipment more often than they change their underwear.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

Some people change their photographic equipment more often than they change their underwear.

Priorities.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

Maybe not the latest thing, but does anyone know if the Canon 1v is still being made?

According to Wikipedia, it was being made as of early 2012 but is no longer listed by Canon among the new products. However, Canon's website shows they still support it. Also, it can still be bought new even if it's no longer in production.

 

[chip j]

Being physically THERE, like traveling, is the essence of photography.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Currently with RF, get sick of SLRs (new product). Once in a while I get sick with RF and then my cure from this new product is Toronto made Kodak Brownie. I forgot, is it 1918 or older...

 

[IloveTLRs]

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. ...

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

 

[Jesper]

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.

 

[benjiboy]

Some people change their photographic equipment more often than they change their underwear.

Well Steve you never know when you will get run over

 

[railwayman3]

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.

I'm sure that you have the exact answer there, and that it applies to a lot of other consumer products. I can (just) remember when cars went back to the dealer for regular servicing every six months, together with frequent mechanical repairs and bodywork repairs after a couple of years (when the doors and wings rusted through). Now cars last seven or eight years, or more, with services every 24 months, so manufacturers have to try to persuade us that we're yesterday's men if we're not driving this year's latest over-equipped "life experience enhancing" model of car........

 

[Sirius Glass]

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.

Now if someone can save a dollar or euro by driving across town or going on the internet the photo store will lose the customer.

 

[Mainecoonmaniac]

Even if you don't get run over but don't change your underwear (Pants)

Well Steve you never know when you will get run over

You will still find skid marks

 

[E. von Hoegh]

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.

As do I. What are these "new product announcements" you speak of? As far as I'm concerned, Nikon ceased making cameras in 1980, when they discontinued the F2.
I don't have a smartphone, and I'm not a consumer. Maybe that's it...

 

[E. von Hoegh]

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

We must not be on the proper mailing lists, I'm not getting any announcements from Kiev Arsenal for my K4s either.

 

[Moopheus]

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.

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.

 

[benjiboy]

You will still find skid marks

In his shorts

 

[removed account4]

don,tknow,it goes into spam

+1

 

[NB23]

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.

You know what? I forgot "IF" and "ED"

 

[Sirius Glass]

In his shorts

There are good reasons for Depends.