Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/25

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Subject: [Leica] Lifespan of digital cameras
From: pmcc_2000 at yahoo.com (pmcc)
Date: Tue Sep 25 22:32:49 2007

The latest digicams now have a little light that comes
on to tell you when the camera is obsolete.

Peter.
SF, CA

--- Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com> wrote:

> One of the issues with digital cameras, and why they
> often might seem 
> to have a short lifespan is that
> 
> a) They are expensive to fix,
> b) Parts are not readily at hand and cannot be
> installed by just any 
> good camera technician,
> c) After a couple of years fixing a camera that cost
> $750 new doesn't 
> make a lot of sense if a new, better feature camera
> of a similar type 
> costs the same as the repair. That's not really the
> fault of the 
> camera, but purely a function of the fact that
> digital cameras are 
> mostly computers, and Moore's Law comes into the
> equation.
> 
> -- 
>     *            Henning J. Wulff
>    /|\      Wulff Photography & Design
>   /###\   mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com
>   |[ ]|     http://www.archiphoto.com
> 
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