I Thought, yes, I do think, and here it
what I thought, I thought that instead of harassing, haranguing and
haunting you before Christmas, when prices are high and everyone is
out shopping like mad, waving money in both hands and fighting to get
the very latest bargain, I would wait until after the holiday to
make with my annual whine about going out and getting yourself a
descent camera, when you are still flush with all of the money you
got from your friends and family who were too lazy and thoughtless to
go and get you an actual, thoughtful, personalized and desired
present and instead slipped a few bucks in a cheap card and said,
“I'm done, yeah!”
I mean let's face it. The kids split as
soon and they food was taken away from the table and the thing on the
couch won't move until after the last game is played on New Year's
Day and you've already cleared away the wreckage from the present
glut and the tree doesn't have to go up for another week and unless
you got a new, nifty neat and cool super wide-screen. LCD,
internet-ready television you have no chance of getting the remote
out of enemy hands and into someone's who doesn't think Tampa Bay vs
Chicago with three wins between them is something which should claim
three hours of your precious time and of that only ninety minutes
will be actual game and the rest will be old Christmas commercials
and you won't see anything new until they bring out the Stupid Bowl
ads sometime in late January, so why not count up all that cash and
go see what you can get for it if you are willing to spend a little
time on the computer?
Okay, so I know that your heart is in
the right place and you want to do the right thing and that means
shopping local and Fred Meyer and Wally World will have some fair
prices on camera equipment either this week or the next and you
really do want to support your friends and neighbors but you won't
get the best bang for your buck if you do and you do have to watch
closely and make sure that that camera advertised at $399.99 is the
newest model and not the model they just took out of production and
you could get the same thing at Amazon for a hundred dollars less and
besides you don't want to blow all of your mad money on one thing so
let's have a think about this and see.
You could look at Craig's List and
please don't cause you will lose your mind and all of your cash and
not get much in return and when something goes wrong and it breaks
you won't be able to get a dime out of it and the seller will just
laugh and change their email address. And besides people think when
they sell their old stuff it is made out of gold and they price it
that way and why should you pay four hundred dollars for a camera
which was taken out of production so long ago that your kid didn't
even know how to program their Ipad and you know how long ago that
was so...
Let's take a look at what you should
do.
KEH is the best site for used
photographic equipment and will have a larger selection and better
rices than just about anybody. They do repair work and on the off
chance that you buy something from them which breaks and isn't
covered by their warranty they can fix it for you.
B & H is number two but they have
some pretty neat things
Including Gift Cards so you can hide
your cash in one of them and the kid won't sneak it out of your purse
when you aren't looking and take it down to the local beer store and
get high and wreck the car with the mayor's daughter, who is only
fifteen in the backseat with just her smile and some texture
pantyhose and the policewoman thinks every teenager is a walking
hormone and should be neutered and charges the kid with felony
assault and asks the D.A. if the Death Penalty applies.
Exceptionally wide selection and they
carry lower-end items which you might want to extend your shopping
pleasure and they have gift cards which you should refer back to the
last paragraph to see why that might be a good idea.
And just because they are our neighbors
to the north doesn't mean that they don't offer exceptional quality
and value for your buck, so don't be a snob and take a look and see
if they have what you are looking for.
You want to buy new and you think that
any camera which isn't in the original packaging is just some other
guys garbage and you know it will take your money from your pocket
straight to Goodwill.
There is nothing at all wrong with new.
It just costs an arm and a leg. The new Canons have a fifty megapixel
sensor and take sharper images than a medium format film camera of
just a few years ago. That is sharp and you can brag about it to your
neighbors, but is it what you need?
I got all I need in my phone.
There is no getting around that camera
in your phone, it is handy and in the right hands it can take
fantastic pictures. But it is just a camera in a phone and no matter
how many megapixels it has they are tiny and not all megapixels are
the same. Sure when you go to the Stupid Bowl and see Katy Perry fall
out of her top and Katy Perry does have something to fall out with
which is not at all true of Taylor Swift and if she fell out there
would be nothing but gasps and clucking and you wouldn't even have to
cover the children's eyes and the thing on the couch might not even
stop snoring, so even if you have a phone camera what would you get
taking a picture that nobody would want to buy and even the most
desperate hacker wouldn't hack your phone to get so it is just not
worth the effort.
No, you need a quality camera and it
doesn't have to be new.
ELECTRONICS WORK OR THEY DON'T
That is a fact and no matter how old
they are if they are working they will probably keep tight on working
and that is a very good thing for you cause it means all those guys
who got the new cameras for Christmas will have nothing to do with
their old cameras and they won't be able to get the prices you see on
Craig's List so they will either have to store them in the closet or
sell them to their uncles or give them to Goodwill and that's where
you come in.
You can buy one a coupla generation old
and save a wad of money and have a camera which will last until your
kids are bitching about all of the stuff they have to get rid of now
that the old folks have gone to the big art show and why didn't they
just get rid of all of it or take out a lot of insurance and open a
gas jet?
I don't know what to get.
Have you looked? Okay, so you didn't.
There's a fix for that.
This site will help you compare the
cameras you look at and then you can see a numerical deferential
which tells you which one Snapsort thinks is better and you can see
if you agree.
And before I go here are a few to start
looking at.
Nikon D90
Canon XSI, T1i, T2i. T3
Pentax Kx, Kr, K30, K50
Sony a33, a55
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