On the other hand the Hasselblad brings you more enjoyment than 1953 baseball cards.
About thirty years ago I ran across the set of 1953 baseball cards and some other memorabilia that I collected as a kid. They had not cost me anything because I would return soda bottles for neighbors who didn’t want to bother. The local market would exchange packs of bubble gum with the cards for the deposit money. I sold them and bought a Hasselblad with the 80mm, 150mm and 45degree prism. Out of curiosity I checked the value of the cards that are now worth over $27,000.
I have added another body and several lenses and other accessories to the kit since and enjoy using the equipment
Whatever the value of my equipment is it hasn’t appreciated as much as the cards. Check your attic you never know what might be in it.
On the other hand the Hasselblad brings you more enjoyment than 1953 baseball cards.
Give a Hasselblad to a baseball card collector and it will just sit in a remote corner collecting dust.
Just like it does for a Hasselblad collector --- but it collects less dust for a user.
It's actually hard to "use" baseball cards....
The, what about the shutter?
Already established quite a way back.
I get the feeling that, here, where I was talking about, the older cars are more or less kept at home in the driveway. Or they only go short distances. You just don't see them on the highways (the real highways, the ones with 4-6 lanes on either side). You used to, though - probably when it was more reasonable for lower-income people to actually be able to drive to work (hardly reasonable now, since it costs about $300 a week for gas).
Already established quite a way back.
I get the feeling that, here, where I was talking about, the older cars are more or less kept at home in the driveway. Or they only go short distances. You just don't see them on the highways (the real highways, the ones with 4-6 lanes on either side). You used to, though - probably when it was more reasonable for lower-income people to actually be able to drive to work (hardly reasonable now, since it costs about $300 a week for gas).
My 2004 TDI with 235k, would like to tell you otherwise. Completed a 3k mile road trip last year, still driven daily.
About thirty years ago I ran across the set of 1953 baseball cards and some other memorabilia that I collected as a kid. They had not cost me anything because I would return soda bottles for neighbors who didn’t want to bother. The local market would exchange packs of bubble gum with the cards for the deposit money. I sold them and bought a Hasselblad with the 80mm, 150mm and 45degree prism. Out of curiosity I checked the value of the cards that are now worth over $27,000.
I have added another body and several lenses and other accessories to the kit since and enjoy using the equipment
Whatever the value of my equipment is it hasn’t appreciated as much as the cards. Check your attic you never know what might be in it.
After discussing this with top Hasselblad repair people, I've ben told this is not at all true.
We heard it over and over again:'keep your mechanical cameras; at least they can be still repaired if something goes wrong. My experience, including a recent Nikon FM failure, is quite different:It is actually very hard to find a repair service for old mechanical cameras. And if you should be lucky enough to find one, hope not to need spare parts, because there are none. Furthermore, The whole deal will cost you more than a new camera!
Already established quite a way back.
I get the feeling that, here, where I was talking about, the older cars are more or less kept at home in the driveway. Or they only go short distances. You just don't see them on the highways (the real highways, the ones with 4-6 lanes on either side). You used to, though - probably when it was more reasonable for lower-income people to actually be able to drive to work (hardly reasonable now, since it costs about $300 a week for gas).
That may be what you're seeing on the roads, driven by the Ontario commuters spending hours to and from their jobs in Toronto, but i'd bet it's not representative across Canada.....
No, it's not representative across Canada....
But 26 million vehicles are registered across Canada, and, according to Statistics Canada, 18.5 million vehicles were sold in the past ten years, with over a third of those being sold in Ontario. Also, the average age has been bumped up not by reliability, but by the fact that over 2020, 2021, and 2022, new vehicle sales fell annually by as much as 500000 units compared to the highest immediate previous year (2017 - with over 2 million new vehicles sold). So, if not for the Covid anomaly - which, incidentally, drove the price of used cars through the roof (if you could find a used car to buy, that is) -, you could've expected 20 million of the 26 million vehicles in Canada to be ten years old or less.
Average age doesn't matter much, when you consider the 7.5 million vehicles older than 10 years includes cars that have been made since 1900.
The majority of cars in Canada -- 71% of them -- are ten years old or younger.
all of which has what relationship to mechanical cameras, if you don't mind my asking?
all of which has what relationship to mechanical cameras, if you don't mind my asking?
About as much as your comment (the one I was responding to) did.
My initial response was to something said by Koraks and was anecdotal - not meant to spur links to the average age of cars or how everyone has 50000000 miles on their 1974 Dodge Dart.
You should go into politics....
I've got a 50,000-mile warranty on my camera.
fact is that aging oils and grease thicken with age and eventually stop mechanical parts from moving; the sure death of shelve queens;
This is why I keep a never used NOS Hasselblad on my shelf.
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