Wouldn’t You Just Know It!

Having worked with computers, I’ve got resigned to the fact that the moment you decide to invest in a computer, the manufacturer seems to bring out a new version that is twice the speed at half the price.

Yesterday, Thursday, I discovered that the same effect works for other consumer goods.

On Wednesday, I had finally taken the plunge to invest in a digital SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera. I’d got my shortlist down to two: either a Canon 300D or a 20D. In the end I went for the cheaper 300D, reckoning that I could not justify to myself the additional cost of the 20D, despite its higher specification – for example, 8 Megapixels versus the 6.3 Megapixels of the 300D. 

And of course, yesterday, Canon announce the introduction of the 350D – a camera that incorporates most of the 20D’s features into the 300D line at a cost between the two. Bah, humbug!