Photography marks let us down. They do it legally and correctly, but after all, they do. In today’s article I’ll explain how you can avoid falling into the trap when buying an SLR camera, and even how to take advantage of it. It’s an extremely simple method with which you can get very good SLR cameras, with amazing features but with a much more affordable price, sometimes up to half.
When I talk to them about strategy, you’ll see that it has overwhelming logic.
- Brands are smart.
- They make you believe that if you don’t buy their latest model you will be left behind.
- Obsolete.
- Obsolete.
- With lower performance than the cameras of the rest of the mortals.
- When it is only false beliefs or superstitions that believe us.
And we sting. We’re all falling. Soon, the brand launches a new model, renewed, with more megapixels, with more performance and performance, and almost double the price. You look silly.
I’m not saying that’s not true. If I understand it, the photography houses live in it, the more people buy cameras, the better, and if they’re expensive, it’s even better. And if they get those same people to give up that camera for a year or two and spend money later on a newer model, I won’t tell you anymore.
As simple as that. The trick is simply to look for the penultimate pattern. The model that precedes the last, from my point of view, is the most attractive and the best value for money.
The way it works is for the brand to launch a model, put a price on it, and put it up for sale. Some time later (sometimes only a few months) relaunches a new model, which is basically the same as the previous one, with more or less improvements, and applies the high price of the previous model.
What about the previous model? Well, here’s the trick: the previous model stays for sale, for a long time, but at an incredibly low price, there’s the problem, how does a camera that costs 750 euros on the day of its launch end up costing 350 euros?Amazing?
Even if you told me well, this camera is from 10 years ago, the poor one is already obsolete, okay, I accept it, but a camera that, just 1 or 2 years ago, presented itself to the consumer as the latest innovation in photography, how can its price go down so much?And what’s more intriguing. If selling it for 350 euros keeps making money, how many did they make before selling it twice as much?
As if all this wasn’t enough, I have another reason why you shouldn’t rush to buy the latest model right away: many times, the first copies of any camera model contain a small defect, a software flaw, small things that are missing polished and that the brand completes the fit in the following batches of this model. Not that it is a problem, because in the worst case, you take the camera to the manufacturer, if you have any major factory defects, and I’m sure replace it with a new one, but it’s always best not to rush to buy the latest model, it’s best to wait a while, give it time, let other consumers buy it, try it, discover everything. these small mistakes that the camera may have, that the brand corrects them and then you buy it more serenity.
It is for the same reason that the photographer’s Blog will never be the first blog to cover or present a newly released camera to the market. I like to let a little time pass, until the camera output stabilizes a little, before putting my hand on it and testing it.
Remember: if you are going to buy the latest camera model, think that in one or two years this same camera will cost you much less, in the meantime you have at your fingertips EXCELLENT models that, at the moment, are much cheaper than what its first owners came to pay.
Can you have the Nikon D3400 with lens included for around 400 euros while the Nikon D3500 costs 482. 92?
The Sony A6000 costs (price not available at the moment) while the Sony A6500 is (downgraded) by 1,551. 10?To think about it, don’t you think?
Another example, and with that we’re done, we have the Nikon D7000 series, while the D7100 is available for (price not available at the moment), the D7500 is at 1251. 13 euros.
Yourself.
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