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Re: Where can I find results of long term tests on digital cameras?

by "Jeroen Wenting" <jwenting at hornet dot demon dot nl> Oct 14, 2007 at 09:40 AM

nowhere. Manufacturers aren't interested in longterm performance but rapid 
obsolescence.
Cameras and their release cycles are designed around the cameras being 
replaced every other year (roughly) as soon as a new model hits the
market.
The marketing campaigns are created to impress on potential customers the 
fact that any model older than the current production model is utterly 
useless and cannot produce a halfway decent image under any conditions.

As a result a large pro****tion of the customerbase indeed replaces their 
cameras every few years (people are gullible herd animals, most of them)
and 
often don't bother to try to sell the old equipment because the resale
value 
is minimal.
Instead they keep it around for a while as a backup (just in case) and
then 
dump it in the trash, even though it's still in perfect working order and 
capable of producing results of the same quality as what they did when
brand 
new 2 years earlier (and likely not visibly worse than their new
equipment).

In such an environment it's not in the interest of camera manufacturers to

encourage such endurance tests as you are looking for.
And as all or most publications depend heavily on advertising revenue 
provided by those manufacturers it's not in their interest to publish such

tests either.
 




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Re: Where can I find results of long term tests on digital camer
"Jeroen Wenting"  2007-10-14 09:40:27 

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