On 21/05/07, Bob Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rob, > I worked for a former UNIVAC computer salesman. > He always insisted on pointing out that the computers > the company used for daily order processing were not obsolete, > they were just superceded...the market had something newer/better. > That's how I feel about my Pentax gear. > You can supercede it, but making it obsolete will take time and effort. > And given the legacy glass out there, bodies will be made to fill the needs. > (Remember, the electronics guys don't make any money on the glass. > They want to sell more electronics, not glass.)
I agree to an extent though I suspect our DSLR bodies are a lot more fragile and will be significantly less long lived than their film brethren due to mechanical/electronic failure more than sheer obsolescence. I really don't expect my lenses or any one else's to become obsolescent over night, some I've had for over 20 years and I'd hope that they'll be useful for at least that again. State of the art bodies to mount them on would help though. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
