[alt-photo] Re: new digital sensor

[Diana Bloomfield]

Yes, Loris; that was my point.  My Canon 5D works perfectly well for  
me, but they keep coming out with something newer and better, with  
more pixels and more bells and whistles-- and so-- we're either  
convinced we have to buy it (whatever it is), through clever  
marketing, or we really do have to move on, because it will be made  
difficult for us to continue with what works perfectly well for us,  
that we may already own.  Same with film cameras-- I have some very  
nice ones that I still love using.  If I can keep getting film, I can  
keep using them.  If I can't, then these perfectly acceptable and  
beautifully-working cameras will have to be shelved to gather dust,  
until someone can come up with something (very expensive, I'm sure)  
for conversion.

Diana

On Mar 23, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Loris Medici wrote:

>  (I imagine Judy yelling "planned obsolescence!" right now -
> hehehehe...) I still have a Zorki 4K with nice Jupiter 8, 9, 12 lenses
> and a turret finder, all older than I am, all in good shape, which I
> know that they will serve me well in case I decide to use them. (As
> they did back when I was actually using them.) Unfortunately you don't
> have that with electronic gear - that's my real problem with digital
> cameras... (Maybe that was exactly what you were referring to.)
>
> Regards,
> Loris.
>
>
> 2010/3/23 Diana Bloomfield <dhbloomfield at bellsouth.net>:
>> ...
>> I do hate that digital cameras seem to be like cars-- as soon as  
>> you remove
>> them from the store (or drive them off the lot),  already they're
>> out-of-date and beginning their rapid depreciation, it seems.
>> ...
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