General digital rules:
- price will halve or capabilities will double if you wait 12 months
- any purchase will be capable but obsolete in 12 months. Or less.
Tom
On Tuesday, September 04, 2001 at 14:03, DAVDOU9211@xxxxxxx
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote on "Re: [OM] Re: Digital Musings," saying..
> In a message dated 9/4/01 10:40:16 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>
> Course I'll always keep my original OM-1.
>
> I would keep some OM stuff. To narrow the discussion and somewhat change
> it's focus, I am considering the Canon EOS D30. Some pretty big names in
> professional photography have gone to it. Does it have the system depth and
> diversity that the OM line does? No. But it does produce some pretty
> spectacular results. Understand, I am well aware that it costs a bunch. I
> would have to sell off a large quantity of my OM system to be able to afford
> it. Can I justify it financially? No. But this avocation is about results,
> for me. I have enough OM equipment that a sell-off would allow me the funds
> for the D30 and still leave me with a 4t and two or three lenses.
>
> Hey, guys, this isn't any easy thing to decide on. The whole thing has come
> about because of the hassles with getting the end result after I use the OMs.
> Perhaps Tom S is correct. Perhaps I should focus more on scanning to the
> computer and wait for the digital quality to improve. Finally, digital will
> inevitably take over the photography world. It is a matter of when, not if.
>
> Dave Dougherty
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