Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message
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D.Duck wrote:

With Digital cameras your image sensor can burn out or get enough bad
pixels that you will want to replace them, but I have never heard
anyone who replaced a camera due to this problem.

No, but it may account for why a digital camera becomes "obsolete"
faster.
The CCD or CMOS sensors are under constant improvement, and not just
in terms of the number of pixels or resolution. Efficiency of
converting light to electrical energy, power drain, sensitivity, etc.

Sorta analogous to new or improved film types developed for older,
film based cameras.

Eisboch


You are absolutely correct, but if you are happy with the quality of
your old camera, when a new improved camera comes out, it does not mean
you have to upgrade. You will continue to get the same quality you have
come to love and enjoy.

We buy a new camera when we loose the old one.

Computers are always upgrading their CPU's, video cards etc. It seems
that the state of the art computer is replaced with a new state of the
art computer every 30 days, but I only replace my computer when it will
no longer do what I want. I probably get a new computer every 5 yrs or so.

I have owned 4 personal computers in the last 20 years. I do not buy a
new one until the old one dies. I did replace a motherboard, CPU and
video card to enable a game I had purchased to work acceptably.

At work it is a new one every three years. Ass soon as it is depreciated
the old one is off to asset recovery and the new one takes its place.
The need for this is due to crappy programming by MS and those who write
programs for MS and the need for increased amounts of memory to run
these sloppy programs.