16K...lot of money for an old camera. Suppose any of the DSLR's will go for that much 50-60 years from now?
That is an easy answer, and the answer is no. You can love the guy or hate the guy but Ken Rockwell said in one of his ramblings that people used to buy cameras as an investments. You bought an F2 knowing you were buying it for the rest of your life. You buy a D300 knowing you are replacing it in a few years with a D600 or whatever cause technology is disposable.
I am a bottom feeder when it comes to camera gear, I cant afford the latest and greatest so I have to use the low end or what the pros no longer use. So you will see me with 3 to 6 year old gear or if it is new then it will be the low end of things. Just economics , as much as I like photography there are too many other things that demand my finances for me to be able to afford a $1500 new camera let alone a $8000 camera. Right now I am entered in a contest where the prize is a new 5d MKIII Canon. I seriously doubt I will win because there is a lot of very good work being submitted but what harm is there in trying?
Someone ask me what I will do with it if I do win, I told them I will trade it for the Nikon I want. That would go a little ways to putting me into a Nikon D3 I am thinking. Or at the very minimum I could always sell it and then Buy a D2x and some lenses even though I would rather have a full frame camera.