darylmesa
Leading Member
Just read a few gripes from Nikon and Canon users about slow release dates on new cameras. I maybe the only one who thinks this isn't an entirely bad thing.
1: For starters it gives people time to explore their dslr and find and bend it's limits and basically use it to it's capacity.
2: It doesn't make perfectly fine cameras obsolete after 1 or 2 years.
3: On an egotistical basis, it doesn't make everyone feel, they have "last years model" and then just switch for the sake of an mp and different rubber on the grip.
4: The most important I think is that it gives the manufacturers time to "get it right" the first time and actually show some real improvement on their upgrades. Not just make an update because it's "time" for the update and release a model fiddled with problems leading to either a recall, a remake of the model or an immediate firmware update.
Yet there are exceptions: Canon 50D - Canon 7D (originally thought as an update, but with such improvements had to made into a category of it's own - especially to battle D300/D300s...so Canon had no choice but to "downsize" to the 60D)
There's also the same for Nikon D90 -D7000 (originally meant for D90 replacement, but like the 7D, too much to stay in the same category...Nikon must now replace the D90 for real...not to mention D300s)
Don't forget the legendary Canon 5D - 5D mkII...
On the other side, is the Canon xxxD series that different from one year to year? Aside from a MP here or there and a screen that is manageable.
And is the D300 and D300s that different from each other? Extra focus points, etc...
On the plus side of fast updates is the used camera market. People can find many hardly if at all used perfectly functional cameras for a fraction of the price once its replacement arrives...
...so on that note, I can't wait for the D700 replacement so I can try to get my hands on the D700 at a fraction of the price
...until till then, i guess I 'll just have "deal" with my D7000
1: For starters it gives people time to explore their dslr and find and bend it's limits and basically use it to it's capacity.
2: It doesn't make perfectly fine cameras obsolete after 1 or 2 years.
3: On an egotistical basis, it doesn't make everyone feel, they have "last years model" and then just switch for the sake of an mp and different rubber on the grip.
4: The most important I think is that it gives the manufacturers time to "get it right" the first time and actually show some real improvement on their upgrades. Not just make an update because it's "time" for the update and release a model fiddled with problems leading to either a recall, a remake of the model or an immediate firmware update.
Yet there are exceptions: Canon 50D - Canon 7D (originally thought as an update, but with such improvements had to made into a category of it's own - especially to battle D300/D300s...so Canon had no choice but to "downsize" to the 60D)
There's also the same for Nikon D90 -D7000 (originally meant for D90 replacement, but like the 7D, too much to stay in the same category...Nikon must now replace the D90 for real...not to mention D300s)
Don't forget the legendary Canon 5D - 5D mkII...
On the other side, is the Canon xxxD series that different from one year to year? Aside from a MP here or there and a screen that is manageable.
And is the D300 and D300s that different from each other? Extra focus points, etc...
On the plus side of fast updates is the used camera market. People can find many hardly if at all used perfectly functional cameras for a fraction of the price once its replacement arrives...
...so on that note, I can't wait for the D700 replacement so I can try to get my hands on the D700 at a fraction of the price
...until till then, i guess I 'll just have "deal" with my D7000