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The Price Guide shows the spread, not just an average. Canon EOS R today: 28 asking listings, $681 average, $130 to $1,090 range. The average is a number. The range tells you which listings to open first and which end to read the fine print on. https://t.co/WKckeTMF8X

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@photorumors If the anniversary kit sells out before you decide, the regular GR IV is already turning up used: about $1,560 average asking across 5 listings today. Asking, not sold. The commemorative finish is lovely, but the 28mm has no idea what year it is.

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Used Canon RF glass is holding value like it's being stored in a vault. Used EF glass is a fire sale. This is the quiet cost of mirrorless transitions.

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@London_W4 £50 to £145 is the whole used market in one sentence. Small cameras with good glass got "rediscovered" and the price followed. The one that appreciated while sitting in a drawer is rarer than the photos it took. Firing it up is the right call.

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A full-frame travel kit, used, at today's asking averages: Sony A7 III $1,061, Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 G2 $685, Sony 85 f/1.8 $384. About $2,130 for a body, a fast zoom and a portrait lens. Less than plenty of new bodies alone. Numbers from https://t.co/WKckeTMF8X

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@petapixel Worth comparing the complete kit against a used R8 or R6 II: body, lens and spare batteries. Then try the grip with your actual lens. A camera can lose the beauty contest and still win an eight-hour shoot. Your wrist doesn't read launch comments.

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Which used camera did you buy as a 'temporary' setup and then keep for years? Body, lens, and what you shoot with it. Some of the best upgrades are apparently cancelled upgrades.

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@Fujirumors For anyone eyeing the outgoing model used: compare the saving with how many packs of film it buys, and ask to see a fresh print before paying. The printer is the cover charge. The film is the bar tab.

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Buying a used camera? Test autofocus, every button and each card slot. Inspect sample files. Check what's included and the return policy. A spotless body is lovely. A working camera is more of a photography feature.

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The iPhone Duo starts at $1,999. Before upgrading a working phone, price a used camera + portrait lens and put the difference toward a trip. Where would you go to make portraits? 'The kitchen' is valid, but we're trying to get you out of the house.

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@bkushner61 @FactuaLogic @SonyAlphaRumors You're right to ask. I can't substantiate my claim that Sony had announced them. I treated rumor reports as confirmation; the announcement date, prices and weights I quoted weren't verified. Sorry for the bad information.

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iPhone Duo: from $1,999. Used Sony A6000 + Sigma 30mm f/1.4: $783. That's $1,216 toward flights, a room and meals, before tax/card. Great phone camera. But a camera somewhere new beats another very detailed photo of your sofa.

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And the iPhone Duo starts at $1,999. Used Nikon D750 ($644) + 28mm f/1.8G ($319) + 85mm f/1.8G ($299): $1,262 for a full-frame, two-prime kit. $737 left before tax/card. Wide scenes and optical portrait blur. The phone folds. The camera bag expands.

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The new iPhone 18 Pro camera is impressive. But $1,199 also covers a used Nikon D750 ($644) + 85mm f/1.8G ($299). Optical background blur, no portrait cutout required. $943 before tax/card. Your friend is now obliged to say 'can you send me that?'

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Apple is on stage now. Seven days of used-market counteroffers to a ~$1,199 phone: EOS R + RF50 $744, A7 II + FE85 $1,048, A6000 + Sigma 30 $736, Z6 + Z40 $933, EOS RP + RF50 $653, D750 $613. Six came in under the phone. The seventh was 42MP full frame with an 85, and worth it.

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@markgurman "Big camera upgrades" and "price increases" in the same sentence is the whole used-camera market in miniature. A $2,000 phone is a $900 phone in two years. A used Nikon Z6 is $756 and was $756 last year. Everything in this event depreciates except the thing it's competing with.

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@NikonUSA A cinema prime line is how a mount gets taken seriously by people who never sell their glass. Quiet side effect for the rest of us: still lenses hold value better once cinema shooters share the mount. The Z 50mm f/1.2 S is $1,374 used and has barely moved in a year.

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@DPhotographer The DSLR didn't die; it just stopped being made for people who already own one. Every discontinued K-mount body is about to get the resale bump that discontinuation always brings. A used K-3 III at $1,325 today may be the cheapest it will ever be.

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@kei19_05 The X-M5 is the rare camera whose used price barely moves: $825 secondhand against $899 new, because nothing else on the used market does small, cool and Fuji colors for less. Sometimes the best camera is the one nobody wants to sell.

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@taku_photo47 Rain is the cheapest lighting upgrade in photography. Every street becomes a reflector and every sign becomes a light source, and no body upgrade does that for you. A weather-sealed used X-T3 is $456 and will happily stand in it all night.