Bugfan wrote:
In the seventies when I had about a dozen lenses Canon obsoleted them all overnight by introducing a new mount and no adaptor. Their attitude, when I complained was to simply tell me to buy them again. I did, I bought them again only this time they were Nikons.
Now more years later I wrote Nikon complaining about the bizarre lens hood on the new 70-200 to which they simply replied that I should learn to live with it rather than providing me a solution to my issue. I also complained about the location and operation of the meter selector on the D3 and got a similar reply. It seems they've now learned from Canon.
Yes brand loyalty seems to be a dinosaur that has outlived it's time.
As to the constantly changing camera models, I agree. The issue is no longer to bring us innovative truly amazing products, instead it's only to try to tease us in order to sell us a new model. The D4 for instance, it's marginally faster than my D3 and it lights up its buttons in the dark. Well yippee doo. For that I should spend over six thousand dollars to replace what I have? I think not.
But alas, they do it because there are many who do get sucked in. So this way they sell a lot more cameras. Add to that, they already know what features are going into the next models to entice us again. But perish the thought that they will give them to us now, it's better to use only a few each model year to keep us buying.
It's an unfortunate sign of the times. Perhaps it's good that my parents are no longer alive. They both taught me to buy things only once. Buy quality and research it well and you never have to buy it again is what they used to teach me. Well, that seems to no longer apply these days. They also said something about being rewarded for loyalty to a product, that too has no value any more either.
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Thanks for the very interesting letter. It's a shame that when I save up for the 'better' higher quality product, it lasts just long enough for the manufacture to quit making parts. It's just not the same as when our parents were growing up.