VidThreeNorth
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About what a "camera on the shelf" is worth:Was thinking about the the Z8 as its only $1500 odd more over the Z7ii, but id spit chips if i bought that and a few months later they bought out the upgraded model at what ever they'll call it.
But i haven't compared the 8 to the 7ii, specs yet. I've kind of glanced at the 8 and its supposed to be better for wildlife stuff with the eye focus and i think the other thing is the pre-release thing.
Don't know if these are just gimmicks though, im not very knowledgeable about such things???
If Jeremy Clarkson was a photographer, he'd still want more speed & more power. Yeah?
Sadly, in most places, the camera companies dictate the camera prices to the stores and the stores obey. There are not many places where this is not true. But what is relevant is that they do tend to drop prices before announcing a new product. So if you check a handful of stores you deal with a given camera will be, overall, "worth its price". For instance, you are looking at an a6700? The predecessor would have been the a6600. The stores probably put them on sale, maybe two, three months before the a6700 came out. Say the original price of the a6600 was $2000 (no, it probably wasn't, I'm just making up the numbers) about a year before. If there was stock in the distribution warehouse, they might have dropped to price to $1700. Say you bought at that price, and the next day the new body came out. Within a few weeks you could probably returned it, though you might have had a 5 percent restock fee. And maybe the newer body came out at $2200. Would the price jump from $1700 to $2200 be worth it? That's the type of choice really. It is unlikely that they older body was being sold without a "clearance sale" (whether they called it that or not) close to its "replacement" being introduced. It is unlikely that they would not have reduced the price of the older model if a "replacement" was that close to the new release, and if you felt that a price for an older product was "too high", you should still have a reasonable return policy.
I deal with reputable stores and do current research before I buy. The kind of regret you are asking about is not something I've ever felt.
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