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i just had my 610 serviced and they replaced one or 2 parts so they do have stuff or can get it .

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

The D610 was discontinued in Dec 2019, so it hasn't yet been 2 full calendar years, for whatever that observation is worth.

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

I had to send my D850 to Melville for warranty repair somewhere around January of 2019. (I had bought it in August of 2018, the <non fatal> problem developed in September or October but I waited to send it in until after Thanksgiving and Christmas.) That was after the first selling frenzy, but Nikon was still selling every camera they could produce. Repair required a little over three weeks. The reason was that because of demand, parts were being directed to the assembly line and not being made available to the repair centers to keep ready on the shelf. They had to be ordered from Japan when needed for a specific repair. So I got my diagnosis almost immediately, but my repair was not completed until three weeks later. It is likely that at the end of production, parts will again be directed to the assembly line instead of the repair centers.

An additional complication is that in the final years of Authorized Repair Centers, those centers were blessed to repair cameras on a model by model basis after completing training and committing to buy and maintain a specific level of parts inventory. My repair shop, now permanently closed, was never authorize to repair the D810, D500, D850, and a number of other high-end models. Some were not offered to them, others required an initial expenditure for parts that they could not afford. This is the same shop that told me they were planning to surrender their service agreement with Sony because they were forced to buy entire subassemblies instead of replaceable modules, forcing repair costs of those cameras to be unnecessarily high ($700 for a rear display screen instead of $300 for the repair).

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Although I’m not wealthy I’m happily not stre$$ed. I can afford any camera below the ~$6k flagship type. But when I shell out for a camera I never ask myself how much I will use it. I only ask myself what it costs to throw it away when it breaks. That alone is keeping a lid on it.

Paul Diamond Loc: Atlanta, GA, USA

From your words, it looks like buying a Canon could make you a big loser!?! - They change models/technology and you might not get the kind of service you used to expect from your (Canon) manufacturer of choice!

Technology advances we all seem to want means that prior generations of equipment (cars/trucks/computers/cell phones/cameras) will be less likely to be repairable in what used to be the future of 5-10 years, let alone longer times. Cameras using mechanical components could typically be repaired or fitted with replacement parts for 10-20 or more years after manufacture. No more, even for your dishwasher, your refrigerator, HVAC, Canon camera, etc.