pns better than A100

[unimatrix]

sadly the 2nd hand market is an obedient slave of the law of supply and demand..

supply keeps increasing with newer and better camera models..
customer demands newer camera with more mega pixels, more features, better of this and better of that.. lowering demands for older models.
moreover, it's a very very elastic demand curve, it's so easy to sway someone to go for the newer models.. why take A100 when you have A200/A300/A350 on the 2nd hand market too?

supply increases, demand decreases..
price goes down..

electronics stuffs are generally that way.
my desktop cost me an arm and a leg 4 years ago, and now.. took me a month to sell it for a meagre $200.. with monitor somemore!! :dunno:

lenses are slightly different, for example, the beercan, it's a 20 year old lens, and prety much constant supply. Those who are looking for that piece of glass probably noes what he wants and expects from that particular glass .. pretty inelastic demand. hence price does not drop so much.

anyway, don't worry too much into it..
just go and enjoy your shoots.

 

[Anson]

lenses are slightly different, for example, the beercan, it's a 20 year old lens, and prety much constant supply. Those who are looking for that piece of glass probably noes what he wants and expects from that particular glass .. pretty inelastic demand. hence price does not drop so much.

I think as good lens can be used by newer camera too, the price drop for these items are more stable..

 

[jasbay]

I suppose ur 4 years old desktop can efficiently surf net, read emails, do microsoft office task. It is still a performing machine yet worth little. :cry:

 

[TME]

I suppose ur 4 years old desktop can efficiently surf net, read emails, do microsoft office task. It is still a performing machine yet worth little. :cry:

Well my 4.5 year old PC can do a little more than that... including heavy photo-editing, some video-editing, play some games, watch some movies... pretty much do what a new PC can do but at a lower level... but it's worthless now...

 

[Anson]

Well my 4.5 year old PC can do a little more than that... including heavy photo-editing, some video-editing, play some games, watch some movies... pretty much do what a new PC can do but at a lower level... but it's worthless now...

Abit OT here.... but if you don't "upgrade" your software, your PC would work just fine...

 

[TME]

Abit OT here.... but if you don't "upgrade" your software, your PC would work just fine...

In a sense, yes... that is true... but human beings always itchy for the next new thing right?

 

[Anson]

In a sense, yes... that is true... but human beings always itchy for the next new thing right?

You are right... human are like this... :bsmilie:

Just how many people upgrade to Vista and regret not sticking to XP instead.... :think:

 

[TME]

You are right... human are like this... :bsmilie:

Just how many people upgrade to Vista and regret not sticking to XP instead.... :think:

Oh, I might just jump to Vista 64bit just to utilise more RAM... Photoshop is very RAM hungry... so is watching videos...

 

[Anson]

Oh, I might just jump to Vista 64bit just to utilise more RAM... Photoshop is very RAM hungry... so is watching videos...

But software support for 64bit is still not comprehensive, unless you want to delicate a PC for video & photo editing... I don't think it is worth it now... :think:

 

[TME]

But software support for 64bit is still not comprehensive, unless you want to delicate a PC for video & photo editing... I don't think it is worth it now... :think:

That's my worry... Anyway Photoshop CS4 is optimised for multi-core processors and for 64bit I think... but not sure about the rest of the software I use... I'll try a copy version first just to find out if it's worth the trouble... otherwise I will just stick to 32bit WinXP or Vista... the Windows 7 beta sounds very stable... might stick to XP until the OS is launched next year...

 

[Anson]

That's my worry... Anyway Photoshop CS4 is optimised for multi-core processors and for 64bit I think... but not sure about the rest of the software I use... I'll try a copy version first just to find out if it's worth the trouble... otherwise I will just stick to 32bit WinXP or Vista... the Windows 7 beta sounds very stable... might stick to XP until the OS is launched next year...

Photoshop CS4 may be optimised for 64bit, but not all third-parties software can work with 64bit OS... I think there is a evaluation that you can try it first...

For Windows 7, like all new OS there is a period of end-user testing before it is really stable for corporate usage. I think would at least wait for SP1 or 2 to be deployed before upgrade... :think:

 

[TME]

Photoshop CS4 may be optimised for 64bit, but not all third-parties software can work with 64bit OS... I think there is a evaluation that you can try it first...

For Windows 7, like all new OS there is a period of end-user testing before it is really stable for corporate usage. I think would at least wait for SP1 or 2 to be deployed before upgrade... :think:

I guess so... not too sure... anyway the engine would not change... just some security updates and stability patches for the SP1... XP had 3 SP... Vista only has one so far... so perhaps Windows 7 would be relatively stable from launch... at least the news on the web is that Windows 7 beta is the most stable OS so far...