Originally posted by reeftool .....
With an ILC system, you are buying lenses and flashes, etc with at least some idea that you can add lenses down the road and get years of use out of them. If they drop the line, you not only can't replace the camera if it breaks but you have a collection of now worthless lenses that you paid good money for.
My used-like-new {shutter count around 30} Q7+02+06 via Amazon plus my 01 from a Japanese merchant cost a total of perhaps $400. Oh, and I spent another $25 or so on a Q-to-K adapter. This was two years ago. Six months after I bought that combination, my Canon Rebel died unexpectedly, and the Q7 served as my primary camera {including when our younger daughter received her Master's degree - undoubtedly the last degree to be received by our family}, so I didn't have to "panic" and buy a replacement quickly {which was the case when my previous Rebel died}. Yesterday I took pictures at a drainage pond from a non-trivial distance {backyard tests demonstrated conclusively that the Q7 works better than cropping K30 images}
I already have my money's worth from this purchase, and I expect to continue using it.
BTW - I do have a collection of worthless-to-me lenses, old EF-S lenses which cost me more than I spent on the Q7. Yeah, I could probably sell them, but the markdown on lenses like that make me doubt it would be worth my bother.