Like almost all bubbles, at some point they burst.
I just checked Ebay prices for Pentax IQ zooms, prices range from $12.00 to around $50.00 with a few in the $100 to $200 range, those listed as "tested" range from $24 to $50 or so. A Pentax Z 30 with lens from $25 to $65 or so highest I saw was $79.00 Minolta 300 or 3xi from $10 to $50, one listed for $50 came with 3 lens, batteries and filters, and case.
I hankered for a Konica Hextar then the Hextar M, never had the money, now 20 years later, I might have invested a lot of for a paper weight. For under $100, Pentax Z30, 50mm pancake lens.
I have an IQ Zoom and have made money with it (magazine illustration). Very reliable, good optics, waterproof... much better than Minolta (which died for good reason). I don't use it now due to batteries. Have printed 11x14s from it...advantage over phone.
Spot on!! Ditto my two Nikon F65s. I have 28mm 2.8 D lenses on each one and an ancient but rock-sharp 28-80 zoom in my backpack. I take them trekking or on local and regional rambles with me, and shoot 'saleables' (mostly old architecture) all the time. I still sell a fair few film images to book publishers, taken with this pair. Some overseas publishing houses still in fact prefer film images to digital. I've never asked them why as I tend to live by the principle of if it ain't broken, don't try to fix it...
My other P&Ss are Contax G1s. I bought two of these new in the '90s when I was a practising architect and had the credit (never much money) and the tax breaks, and two more for pocket money when everybody was throwing them out, like babies and bath water, in the late '00s. These are somewhat fiddlier to work with but they go on working and working, bless them. Beautiful lenses, super sharp, but when I look at the end results I really can't tell which films were taken with Nikons and which with Contaxes. Horses for courses, those P&Ss...
Pardon the paraphrase:The bubble will end when younger folks understand that most P.S were consumer grade cameras, not all that well made, no parts or even service techs to fix one if you had a second body. The high end cameras are now over 30 years, very expensive and even with high build standards and lens, when I.Cs will fail and they have an expensive object de art.
Never understood why people by point and shoots. Apart from a few models they are all optically inferior to most of not all non point and shoot cameras. Especially when you can replace lenses with better once. And if size is an issue there are a some alternatives.
Never understood why people by point and shoots. Apart from a few models they are all optically inferior to most of not all non point and shoot cameras. Especially when you can replace lenses with better once. And if size is an issue there are a some alternatives.
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As someone with a lifetime in 135 SLRs, medium format SLRs and large format, I have a Canon point & shoot (Olympus point and shoot during heyday of film) because I do not always wish to be lugging a bag full of stuff around, which is not only a burden to carry but also an extra burden when you go on amusement rides or boat trips. A P&S with full manual capability, along with aperture/shutter priority automation, that fits easily into pants pocket or jacket pocket provides full capability of an SLR (maybe not the FL range of interchangeable lens) to capture most shots that one would be able to take with SLR, with little of the inconvenience. I much rather not walk all day around Paris lugging an SLR kit digging into the shoulder and getting in the way in crowded spaces, or run greater risk of theft by advertising 'not from here'. The point is 'get the shot' and not necessarily do it with the absolute best optics.Never understood why people by point and shoots. Apart from a few models they are all optically inferior to most of not all non point and shoot cameras. Especially when you can replace lenses with better once. And if size is an issue there are a some alternatives.
Never understood why people by point and shoots. Apart from a few models they are all optically inferior to most of not all non point and shoot cameras. Especially when you can replace lenses with better once. And if size is an issue there are a some alternatives.
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