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A Little Sad In A Way.
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That progress especially technology leaves piles of unwanted redundant equipment that's in perfect working order.
It came to mind while having a mooch around a charity shop yesterday. Not really up on cameras, but cane across what I believe was a very up market camera in its day, a Pentax mz60. It was a bundle of, the camera, 2 x zoom lenses, a pack of what I think to be filters, new batteries, and instruction booklet, a few unknown to me bits and dabs, all in its own original bag, very clean and cared for.
They obviously thought they could get £70, but crossed off, now £25. Still no buyers it seems.
Just had a look on ebay could only really find one,@ just over £100, but think they may be living in hope because on the whole your looking at £30 to £50 for very much like the same.
Zoom lenses selling at £10/ £15. The problem being is they are not digital, and not rechargeable batteries. Any thoughts, or anything you have that's really redundant?
It came to mind while having a mooch around a charity shop yesterday. Not really up on cameras, but cane across what I believe was a very up market camera in its day, a Pentax mz60. It was a bundle of, the camera, 2 x zoom lenses, a pack of what I think to be filters, new batteries, and instruction booklet, a few unknown to me bits and dabs, all in its own original bag, very clean and cared for.
They obviously thought they could get £70, but crossed off, now £25. Still no buyers it seems.
Just had a look on ebay could only really find one,@ just over £100, but think they may be living in hope because on the whole your looking at £30 to £50 for very much like the same.
Zoom lenses selling at £10/ £15. The problem being is they are not digital, and not rechargeable batteries. Any thoughts, or anything you have that's really redundant?
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It wasn't very up-market, even in its day.
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It appears from the above review that it was technologically out of date when launched.
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It appears from the above review that it was technologically out of date when launched.
I think, with photographic equipment in particular, that performance has has improved so much in the past couple of decades that old cameras are no longer up to scratch. Image stabilisation and the ability to check photos as they are taken together with the image manipulation on computers and the easy distribution of pictures to friends has made the old film cameras redundant as well as expensive to use. Modern zoom lenses are smaller, lighter and of better quality than the old ones.
In the old days I used to take about 20 films on holiday; the film wasn't cheap and neither was the processing and my albums take up a lot of space in the house. Now I take 2 memory cards (one as a spare) and take stills and video with the same camera.
In the old days I used to take about 20 films on holiday; the film wasn't cheap and neither was the processing and my albums take up a lot of space in the house. Now I take 2 memory cards (one as a spare) and take stills and video with the same camera.
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