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

"Paul Furman" <paul-@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> TH O wrote:
>> In article 
>> <bfd6ea1e-09b7-493d-8b05-dab630487434@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>  Matt Clara <mattclara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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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.
>
> Aperture coupling isn't removed but I agree this is lame.
>
>> 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,


I guess they have done their homework and know that many buyers of the
lower 
end cameras will only ever buy a couple of lenses but they do appreciate
the 
better quality results and the far better handling of even a low end D-SLR

over any P&S. These lower end cameras are just fat P&S's after all.

> Well there are good reasons for this: lowered cost & smaller size but
yeah 
> I'm sure part of the motivation was to encourage new lens purchases.
OTOH 
> most entry level buyers aren't interested in more than a couple lenses.
>
>> so it further limits the available used lenses, makes many AF lenses 
>> obsolete, and leads customers towards new lenses.