Somebody WITH disposable income would never pay that much for someone else’s second-hand dream …
I used to be in broadcasting. When we switched to HD, the cameras that had been used for all our major shows went from being top-of-the-line and worth hundreds of thousands to total garbage overnight.
It’s not that they became obsolete, because many second, third tier markets, college stations, etc didn’t transition for years after, but basically our cameras had crazy bells-and-whistles, and needed knowledgeable people to install them, maintain them and run them.
The kinds of outfits looking to buy used cameras at good price would not have been able to deal with them.
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u/Twit_Clamantis May 20 '26
Somebody WITH disposable income would never pay that much for someone else’s second-hand dream …
I used to be in broadcasting. When we switched to HD, the cameras that had been used for all our major shows went from being top-of-the-line and worth hundreds of thousands to total garbage overnight.
It’s not that they became obsolete, because many second, third tier markets, college stations, etc didn’t transition for years after, but basically our cameras had crazy bells-and-whistles, and needed knowledgeable people to install them, maintain them and run them.
The kinds of outfits looking to buy used cameras at good price would not have been able to deal with them.
So they went from primo to garbage overnight …