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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Adey Baker" data-source="post: 1334638" data-attributes="member: 1805">Of course, we did upgrade regularly in the 'good old days' - every time a new 'improved' film came along! By the 1990s SLR design had reached a stage where they would do pretty much everything that was asked of them; Canon, for instance, made the EOS3 for quite a few years without ever needing to upgrade it at all - but it was a long way ahead of earlier SLRs that were slow, noisy, non-motor-driven, with dim viewfinders that 'blacked out' with tele lenses. The very early ones had non-return mirrors, no exposure meters, slow-fitting screw-thread lens mounts, etc., etc., etc.The big difference now is the speed of new models coming onto the market and I'm not sure that strong competition is all that healthy for us, the consumers, if they keep trying to leap-frog over one another with the latest multi-megapixel model, rather than developing genuine improvements -personally, I'd say that if you have a good model, don't even look too hard at another until you're 2 or 3 models further down the line!</blockquote>