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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 223468" data-attributes="member: 16749">If you had bought an original Nikon D1 back in 1999, how content would you be with it today, only able to shoot 2.7-megapixel images when even the crappiest of modern point&shoot cameras and even cellphone cameras have better resolution than that, with 16- or 24 megapixels being about par for most modern DSLRs?  I was just thinking about this, a few days ago.   If I was still shooting film, I'd be totally happy to keep using my F2 until either it dies, or I do.  It's more than forty years old, but the most modern counterpart to it, the F6, can't take any better pictures than my F2 can take.  With digital cameras, the key technology is the sensor and the electronics to support it.  This technology has been advancing rapidly, and can be expected to continue doing so.  Any DSLR made today will take significantly better pictures than any DSLR made just a few years ago; and a few years from now, any DSLR being made then will take significantly better pictures than any DSLR being made today.  Can you imagine what the digital cameras of forty years from now will be like?  I certainly cannot.  If they are still making film then, and cameras that use it, then whatever they are making then will still use the same film and the same optics that my F2 uses, and won't take any better pictures than my F2.  But surely, digital cameras then will be way ahead of anything we have now, or can imagine now.  I doubt if it will ever make sense to think of owning a fine digital camera in such a long-term view as one would think of owning a fine film-based camera—at least not until you get into the tens-of-thousands-of-dollars-range for something like a Hasselblad with an interchangeable back, that will allow you to upgrade the sensor and electronics as technology improves them.[ATTACH]60485[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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