By Chris Campbell
With so many opportunities for the everyday consumer to utilize online auction sites like eBay, why would anyone resort to buying brand new digital cameras at full prices? Or, any product for that matter. Well, many reasons actually. They generally have to do with trust, warranties, and appreciation for the shinier things in life. While those may be some perfectly good reasons, does that mean the people who do buy used digital cameras know something the rest of us don't?
Probably not, maybe they just look at things a little differently. Camera manufacturers are releasing new camera models at an unprecedented rate. Before the advent of digital cameras, it was harder for Canon, Sony, Kodak, Nikon or Kodak to come up enough new features to convince customers they should upgrade their cameras. So they didn't.
Today however, things have definitely changed. Digital cameras mean more megapixels, image stabilization, face recognition, software menus, LCD screens, memory cards and firmware upgrades. These are all features driven by or completely impossible without CPU's and software. Meaning, that cameras are not just cameras anymore, they're actually little miniature computers that just happen to take pictures. We all know how often computers become obsolete and upgraded. That lesson certainly hasn't been lost on the brain trust that run companies like Canon, Sony, Nikon and Kodak. OK, maybe a little lost with Kodak, but I digress.
The point I'm trying to make here, is that with the rapid fire release of new digital cameras, there is a plethora of good used digital cameras available at great prices. I have a couple old digital cameras (like my Canon PowerShot s40) sitting at home that I paid top dollar for a few years ago. Today they still work brilliantly, and can be had on eBay for a disturbingly low fraction of what I paid for mine.
With so many opportunities for the everyday consumer to utilize online auction sites like eBay, why would anyone resort to buying brand new digital cameras at full prices? Or, any product for that matter. Well, many reasons actually. They generally have to do with trust, warranties, and appreciation for the shinier things in life. While those may be some perfectly good reasons, does that mean the people who do buy used digital cameras know something the rest of us don't?
Probably not, maybe they just look at things a little differently. Camera manufacturers are releasing new camera models at an unprecedented rate. Before the advent of digital cameras, it was harder for Canon, Sony, Kodak, Nikon or Kodak to come up enough new features to convince customers they should upgrade their cameras. So they didn't.
Today however, things have definitely changed. Digital cameras mean more megapixels, image stabilization, face recognition, software menus, LCD screens, memory cards and firmware upgrades. These are all features driven by or completely impossible without CPU's and software. Meaning, that cameras are not just cameras anymore, they're actually little miniature computers that just happen to take pictures. We all know how often computers become obsolete and upgraded. That lesson certainly hasn't been lost on the brain trust that run companies like Canon, Sony, Nikon and Kodak. OK, maybe a little lost with Kodak, but I digress.
The point I'm trying to make here, is that with the rapid fire release of new digital cameras, there is a plethora of good used digital cameras available at great prices. I have a couple old digital cameras (like my Canon PowerShot s40) sitting at home that I paid top dollar for a few years ago. Today they still work brilliantly, and can be had on eBay for a disturbingly low fraction of what I paid for mine.
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