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02/24/2004 08:51:52 AM · #1 |
I now have enough cash to purchase the Rebel. However, in light of some rumours over the past few weeks and the recent end of the PMA show, would you run out and buy or wait and see if a price drop happens over the next little while?
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02/24/2004 08:54:19 AM · #2 |
I'm pretty much in the same boat. It's killing me to wait, but if the price drops after I get a new camera... my wife will drop ME! :)
So I'm waiting... |
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02/24/2004 08:54:23 AM · #3 |
| If you're asking what *I* would do, unless I foresaw a fairly immediate drop, I'd buy it. The fact is, prices will always go down, technologies will always get better. I find there's more satisfaction in having something sooner rather than endlessly waiting for the new best thing.. But that's just me. :-) |
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02/24/2004 08:55:44 AM · #4 |
| my advice is buy what you want. if you like a cam so much you want it go out and buy it at that price. technology is changing constantly and in my opinion id buy it whenn i could not waiting to see if $20 - 30 came off |
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02/24/2004 08:57:28 AM · #5 |
I don't have time to find the thread now, but the rumor I heard posted here was a 2 to 3 HUNDRED dollar drop. That's a second lens... If I was expecting a 20-30 dollar drop it wouldn't be an issue...
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02/24/2004 09:19:35 AM · #6 |
| In my opinion, you never win the waiting game. If you wait for the price to drop, then there'll be a new came with a few extra bells and whistles for the same price you were willing to pay in the first place, then you'll spend a few weeks doing research on the new camera, then the whole process will repeat itself .... you'll become a camera feature expert, but you won't own a camera :) |
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02/24/2004 09:39:31 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by hopper:
In my opinion, you never win the waiting game. If you wait for the price to drop, then there'll be a new came with a few extra bells and whistles for the same price you were willing to pay in the first place, then you'll spend a few weeks doing research on the new camera, then the whole process will repeat itself .... you'll become a camera feature expert, but you won't own a camera :) |
Ditto. If you want a camera, go get one. Yes, there will be somethign better tomorrow. But there will also be somethign better the next day also.
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02/24/2004 09:45:38 AM · #8 |
How much are the pictures you aren't going to take with it while you wait worth to you ?
If that's less than the price difference, then wait. But when two days after you buy a 300D the 400D comes out, I'd not worry about it...
(this coming from someone who bought a D60 and the 10D was announced 2 weeks later. - ended up I had the D60 in my hands 4 months before a 10D actually appeared in the wild - didn't stop huge screeds being posted in the dpreview.com forums by other people who felt that Canon had cheated them somehow. That 4 month period equated to about 5,000 pictures that I wouldn't have taken, including a trip to Australia and several weddings) |
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02/24/2004 10:52:28 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by TooCool:
I now have enough cash to purchase the Rebel. However, in light of some rumours over the past few weeks and the recent end of the PMA show, would you run out and buy or wait and see if a price drop happens over the next little while? |
or you could be like me and not wait for anything, including having money..and just buy it anyway. |
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04/01/2004 11:25:08 AM · #10 |
| Unless you had strong reason to believe an update was coming soon I'd go ahead and buy. I got my D60 not long before the 10D (which was cheaper and better) came out, and i was a little sad that I didn't have the 10D, but I am still completely satisfied with my D60 |
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