Re: The Nikon D3 makes everyone's life better, even mine!!!

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 Matt Clara <mattclara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mar 7, 1:07 am, rfisc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Ray Fischer) wrote:
> > Rita Berkowitz <ritaberk2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > A midlife crisis camera, in other words.  Instead of an overpriced
> > s****ts car you have an overpriced camera.
> >
> 
> They're all overpriced these days.  Time was (7 years ago or less)
> $1700 would have bought you arguably the best 35mm camera in the
> world, and those of us here were paying $500 or less for most of
> ours.  Now the top camera costs $8000+
> 
> Hey, you think the cost of gas has gone up???  This **** is unreal.

And best of all, Nikon has introduced planned obsolescence into its 
line. We used to be able to use manual focus lenses on all cameras but 
now you need an $1800 camera or better (D300) since Nikon has removed 
metering and aperture coupling ability from lower end bodies. Which 
means that now the customers are more likely to buy new lenses. With the 
D40/D40x/D60, half of the autofocus lenses won't AF on the bodies, so it 
further limits the available used lenses, makes many AF lenses obsolete, 
and leads customers towards new lenses.