| Actually, there's a very similar observation in The DAM Book (Peter Krogh) - kind of the Bible of digital image organization. He's talking about disk drives, and suggesting not to buy anything too big, as within a year or two, prices will have dropped considerably. "Buy the drive you need right now, not the drive you will need in 18 months", or something to that effect. And he says he first heard that 20 years ago. Sounds about right.
Now, tripods aren't disk drives; they aren't subject to the same price trends. But I thought it an interesting parallel, snce I just read that passage from Krogh again yesterday (in the new second edition). |