Are digital cameras effectively disposables?
You need to read Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. The question you’re asking has some deep sociopolitical roots that can be dug up. The influential, exploited the greed of the ordinary man to feed his own greed. By giving them access to what were perceived as “luxuries” for example a car, or a fridge. To do this, products took advantage of the mass manufacturing left over from the second world war, and because you made it cheap you could build in obsolescence and people will want to upgrade at the end of a product’s life, and essentially with that you can keep the cash cycling in. So it’s not just digital cameras, I’d be inclined to say it’s every consumer product made after the second world war. When we talk about consumer products it’s the TVs, computers, compact digital cameras, entry level SLRs, iPods, phones, even furniture and kitchen fittings. Just look at the Nikon Professional line, from the Nikon F, all the way to the D3S, quality has always been paramount, the profession
