Quote Originally Posted by tirediron View Post
Ehhh... all of this is taking us farther and farther from where we need to go. Call me an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, or even late for dinner, but I think we need to leave the development of gimmicks alone, and concentrate on building better quality cameras. Take the D3 for instance; a $5000.00+ camera body that has a shutter which is only rated for 300,000 cycles?? That's ludicrous. I'd like to see the return of bodies built to the standard of the M6, or the old Mirandas. heck, even the Pentax Spotmatic bodies I still have at home (somewhere) are built solid enough to use as weapons...

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Okay... I'm better now.
Well, because of the fast changing technology, cameras have become consummable. The thinking of the manufacturers is that the camera will be obsolete before 300,000 cycles and for pros, it is just a business expense anyway.

Tegan