One upmanship and Canon's claim

On Jul 5, 10:27 pm, Robert Coe wrote:
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:11:03 -0700, RichA wrote:

: On Jul 5, 9:20 pm, "Roger N. Clark (change username to rnclark)": wrote:

: Rita Ä Berkowitz wrote:
: Bill Funk wrote:
:
: Maintenance costs alone will destroy any aspirations of keeping a
: dSLR for more than 18-months.
:
: I don't understand this at all; experience says otherwise.
: Could you expand on this?
:
: After 18-months of being used properly you generally have maintenance
: issues to contend with. It is worse if you wear out a shutter assembly
: prematurely. I know Canon had a streak of bad shutters that were taking a
: dump just after 15k actuations. It all eats into your useable lifecycle.
:
: Here is my maintenance costs on my DSLRs:
:
: D60 from 2002 to 2007: $0.00
: 10D from 2003 to 2007: $0.00
: 1DII from 2004 to 2007: $0.00
: 30D 2007: $0.00
:
: You mean repair bills?
: Any canned air or wipes for dust removal used?

Are you proposing to capitalize the cost of canned air and dust wipes? You're
not a professional accountant, I hope.

Bob

Why not? Consumables used for business, just like printer inks, blank
DVDs, etc.