The aged DSLR users

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Interesting to see this statistic.

From dpreview.com

Digital SLR sales soar
Sales of digital SLRs continue to rise and nearly doubled in the
period 2003-2004, according to industry analyst NPD Techworld. PMA
Sales of DSLRs rose from 277,796 in 2003 to 578,000 in 2004 and are on
track to break records this year as 200,000 units had already been
sold by April 2005. The 2005 PMA US Consumer Photo Buying report also
reveals that 60% of DSLR owners are male, who are slightly older than
compact digital camera users at around 48 years old, but younger than
35mm SLR users at 52

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DonB wrote:
> A couple of years ago, all the posts were about Canon G5's and the
> like. Now the point and shoots seem to have dropped off the face of
> the earth in these groups,
> Don

In this group, discussion of point-and-shoot is off-topic, as the group is
about SLR-systems.

Try:
rec.photo.digital.zlr - higher end SLR-like point and shoots
rec.photo.digital.point+shoot - compact format point and shoots
rec.photo.digital - general

David

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Scott W wrote:

> RichA wrote:
>
>>Interesting to see this statistic.
>>
>>From dpreview.com
>>
>>Digital SLR sales soar
>>Sales of digital SLRs continue to rise and nearly doubled in the
>>period 2003-2004, according to industry analyst NPD Techworld. PMA
>>Sales of DSLRs rose from 277,796 in 2003 to 578,000 in 2004 and are on
>>track to break records this year as 200,000 units had already been
>>sold by April 2005. The 2005 PMA US Consumer Photo Buying report also
>>reveals that 60% of DSLR owners are male, who are slightly older than
>>compact digital camera users at around 48 years old, but younger than
>>35mm SLR users at 52
>
>
> Shoot, I am too old to be using a DSLR, I should be using a film SLR at
> my age
>
> Scott
>

Well, lets see, I'm 44 and I just bought an Olympus E-300 in April.
However, I also just bought a Minolta SRT-201 for US$50 on eBay.

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"Scott W" <biphoto@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1121362130.659477.89050@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> RichA wrote:
>> Interesting to see this statistic.
>>
>> From dpreview.com
>>
>> Digital SLR sales soar
>> Sales of digital SLRs continue to rise and nearly doubled in the
>> period 2003-2004, according to industry analyst NPD Techworld. PMA
>> Sales of DSLRs rose from 277,796 in 2003 to 578,000 in 2004 and are on
>> track to break records this year as 200,000 units had already been
>> sold by April 2005. The 2005 PMA US Consumer Photo Buying report also
>> reveals that 60% of DSLR owners are male, who are slightly older than
>> compact digital camera users at around 48 years old, but younger than
>> 35mm SLR users at 52
>
> Shoot, I am too old to be using a DSLR, I should be using a film SLR at
> my age
>
> Scott
>

If you're really lucky, you fall into the Hasselblad demographics group <g>.