What is the product life of a D-SLR?

I am intrigued with the D200 which will be released for sale shortly.
How long a run will Nikon have with this camera based on past models?

Ron
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Ron writes ...

I am intrigued with the D200 which will be released for sale shortly.
How long a run will Nikon have with this camera based on past
models?

Canon dSLR's seem to be replaced with a newer/better model every 18
months or so. Not sure about Nikon, maybe a bit longer. It pays to
buy early in the product cycle.

Bill

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I am intrigued with the D200 which will be released for sale shortly. How
long a run will Nikon have with this camera based on past models?

Ron
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Probably about as long as the D100.
Jim

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Freedom55 "joinertake this wrote:

I am intrigued with the D200 which will be released for sale shortly.
How long a run will Nikon have with this camera based on past models?

For the professional, the Nikon will last 2 or 3 years and then be
junked after it's millionth picture.

For the amateur, maybe 2 years until the next piece of jewelry comes
out.

"Freedom55" "joinertake this wrote in message
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I am intrigued with the D200 which will be released for sale shortly.
How long a run will Nikon have with this camera based on past models?

Ron
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Hi there.

I am not too sure that Bill's sugestion to buy early in the life cycle of
any product is the wisest one.

There may be faults, which will be fixed in later production runs.
The initial price will be high, until all the "Must Have the Latest" get
theirs. There is also very likely to be a considerable price reduction, as
soon as Canon bring out their competing model, or reduce the price of their
existing models.

Roy G

"Freedom55" "joinertake this wrote in message
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I am intrigued with the D200 which will be released for sale shortly. How
long a run will Nikon have with this camera based on past models?

About two years. Product life is based more on psychology than
engineering/reliability in the fast-moving (toy) arenas. I would like to
buy a dishwasher that lasts 15 - 20 years but know that a digital camera
could last that long but cannot see myself using it for such an extended
period. The dishwasher is an appliance, but the camera is a toy.
Automobiles are kind of in-between. TVs became mundane (like dishwashers)
and now HDTV is being foisted upon us to move them away from the dishwashers
and more toward the toy category. Don't you know that they are messing with
our minds and our wallets and that we love it?

Stewy writes:

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Freedom55 "joinertake this wrote:

I am intrigued with the D200 which will be released for sale shortly.
How long a run will Nikon have with this camera based on past models?

For the professional, the Nikon will last 2 or 3 years and then be
junked after it's millionth picture.

For the amateur, maybe 2 years until the next piece of jewelry comes
out.

This can't be right; I've never run a Nikon up to a million pictures,
and all of the ones I have are over 2 years old. Most I've had more
than 10 years, actually.

(Amateur, though I do small bits of semi-pro work now and then.)

Still interested in the d200, though :-)
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David Dyer-Bennet writes:
For the amateur, maybe 2 years until the next piece of jewelry comes
out.

This can't be right; I've never run a Nikon up to a million pictures,
and all of the ones I have are over 2 years old. Most I've had more
than 10 years, actually.

The question was about DSLR's. Nikon 35mm SLR product life seems to
be about 8-10 years: Nikon F, 1959; F2, 1968; F3, 1979(?), F4, F5, F6
on about the same schedule. For DSLR's, the cycle is much shorter.
And any Nikon you've had for 10 years is almost certainly not a DSLR
(I'm not sure exactly when the E1 came out).

DLSR's and P&S's are just like PC's were in the 1990's. Every 18-24
months you had to upgrade because of software or new features.

Nikon introduced the D70 in 12/2003.

In early 2005, they upgraded it to the D70S and put a new entry point
with the D50.

Now in 12/2005, they intro the D200.

Do I need to update my 2 D70s's? They only have 10,000 and 4,000 shots
on them. Nikon says that the D70 is good for 50,000 shots.

Nope. Don't need to.

But that D200 sure looks nice.

See?

writes:
Do I need to update my 2 D70s's? They only have 10,000 and 4,000 shots
on them. Nikon says that the D70 is good for 50,000 shots.

I hope shutter replacement isn't too expensive a repair on the D70S,
if you've put on 10K shots in the few months that the D70S has been
available.

But that D200 sure looks nice.

Yeah, the D200 does have a few technical features that weren't
feasible a couple years ago, but in many regards it's what the D100
should have been.