Originally posted by totsmuyco I agree. Everybody seem to be upgrading their system. Here in the Philippines, the D7200 is sold at a much cheaper price than the the K-3II. Maybe the price drop is due to the coming of the D500 and probably more.
There are a lot of 'maybes' in this thread.
The situation is likely a culmination of a lot of these factors (currency valuation, customer system upgrades, new products, manufacturers attempting to increase/create growth/profit/appease the shareholders, etc). These days, buying cameras and lenses seems to be more like commodity trading where you must guesstimate the right time to buy (at the lowest price) based on the health of the market, cost of freight/shipping, financial rates.. etc haha.
OT: Sometimes I think about it and find it odd the resources (time and money) invested in photography on a non-commercial level that some of us take (myself especially).
But then I think of the alternative and it would likely be one of pointless gaming, movie watching, or mindless tv viewing. At least we have something we can point to and show for our time+money spent. Movies, tv shows, and most gaming I'd say is based on observing someone elses ideas and thoughts. But we create new ones... and memories that we can much more easily share with others. So.. we have that.