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New old camera dilemna

Started Nov 11, 2018 | Discussions thread
MOD Tom Caldwell Forum Pro • Posts: 46,360
The “bigger fool” theory
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I have lots of old cameras.  Too many old cameras - I once had and liked the Canon Pro90 IS - in fact it was much better than the 4mp sensor cameras that were replacing it. So we do get camera bodies that are so ahead of their time that they can be used for years and still be competitive.

I think I did well with the Pro90 and my Canon 5D which I used for 10 years for serious work.

My Ricoh GRD (original) has a nice wear patina on its grip and still gets used from time to time - I regard it as a classic - but I doubt anyone elses does.  Your new camera purchase, pristine as it might be, was only cheap because it was sold as being “past it’s use by date”.

To ourselves we have gear that we become fond of by our “good gear” is someone elses “junk” and we cannot assign our personal respect for this “good gear” to someone else from the very fact that something becomes “worth something” only if it is worth something more to someone else.

It is part of the “bigger fool” theory - I will pay a silly price for something as there is always a “bigger fool” who will pay me even more for it  .... and so on ad infinitum until the “biggest fool” buys it ... but most are not so easily fooled.  But if that something can earn you money, you can eat it, sleep in it, drive about in it, or even simply just enjoy using it ... that is quite another story.

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