Personally, I am occasionally taking full advantage of bargain top-notch kit on the second-hand market, as older gear and stuff that doesn’t fit people gets sold off.
Personally, I am occasionally taking full advantage of bargain top-notch kit on the second-hand market, as older gear and stuff that doesn’t fit people gets sold off.
I've been picking up lenses on the cheap too. I can't justify buying them new when the depreciation curve so favors the second-hand buyer.
I have a wonderful collection of old CAMERA Magazin issues, and plenty of old brochures and pro magazines from the 1990s, and technical image quality has not advanced as far as people think it has, even if pixel peeping suggests otherwise. That alone helps me calm the GAS down when flipping though the PetaStoppers of the web today.
A mate has been desperate for a Hassy for, I swear, a decade, and has finally bought his dream 907 or something, and the only pics I saw from him so far were shot through a plane window. If it makes you happy, I guess. On the MF itch, I found a cheap-as-dirt 645Z and as you suggest, the images and colour depth are a marvel.
So much for not lugging heavy cameras around.