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What Nikon has done with the D3200
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RichA wrote: They eliminated the "caste system" that has existed in digital since the dawn of the DSLR. Before digital, film was film. The lowliest P&S could use the best film, for a modest investment. A $125 Pentax K1000 could use the same film and get similar results to a $1000 Nikon F3. Are you sure that the Nikon F3 cost EIGHT TIMES the price of a K1000? The differential seems far too large to me. Yeah. I'm sure it didn't, in fact. However, the body became more important as auto-focus and auto-exposure became key features. My N90 (first my first auto-focus) cost about twice what any previous body had ever cost me. -- David Dyer-Bennet, ; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info |
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What Nikon has done with the D3200
David Dyer-Bennet wrote in news:ylfkobqntp3x.fsf@dd-
b.net: Bruce writes: RichA wrote: They eliminated the "caste system" that has existed in digital since the dawn of the DSLR. Before digital, film was film. The lowliest P&S could use the best film, for a modest investment. A $125 Pentax K1000 could use the same film and get similar results to a $1000 Nikon F3. Are you sure that the Nikon F3 cost EIGHT TIMES the price of a K1000? The differential seems far too large to me. Yeah. I'm sure it didn't, in fact. However, the body became more important as auto-focus and auto-exposure became key features. My N90 (first my first auto-focus) cost about twice what any previous body had ever cost me. The F3 was about $1000, and the cheapened version of the K1000 (plastic top instead of metal, possibly made somewhere other than Japan) was at one point in 1979 about $125 from New York dealers. Like Canon's cruddy original Rebel series. |
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