When do you think is the time to 'upgrade'?

When Scarlet ships...


Seriously, how can anyone answer this? I'd say upgrade when your current one (whatever that is) no longer meets your needs.
 
You answered it exactly right -- upgrade when your current product no longer meets your needs. Don't spend a dime you don't have to. If what you've got is doing the job you need done, why even think about upgrading?
 
The key thing with DSLRs being that they've never fully met a lot of our needs so we've had to do work arounds and stuff so when a new one comes out that's slightly better an upgrade is tempting. For example I am upgrading to GH2 from GH1 for some of the new features...the GH1 "met" my needs before but this thing will make things easier, and will meet them better...if that makes sense. Just because my GH1 "meets" my needs doesn't mean I don't need to upgrade.
 
Well, the GH1 didn't meet my needs, so I'm upgrading to a GH2. The GH1 with the hack came closer, but the added unreliability meant I actually used it less. So I had a camera that I couldn't do what I wanted with, and therefore it went for sale and the GH2 arrives today (hopefully).

So I understand upgrading, but -- again, only when what you've got doesn't meet your needs. Otherwise, heck, it's your money, upgrade whenever you want, but I guess I'm saying -- if you can do what you need to with what you've got now, why spend extra dough?
 
Barry_Green said:
So I understand upgrading, but -- again, only when what you've got doesn't meet your needs. Otherwise, heck, it's your money, upgrade whenever you want, but I guess I'm saying -- if you can do what you need to with what you've got now, why spend extra dough?
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I think there are definitely 2 schools of thought to this. You can look at it from the standpoint of "I don't have the need for it, so why buy it", but if you do have extra funds available and it's not going to pose a financial hardship and you plan to do larger things in the NEAR future where you believe you can recover your investment, then maybe it is worth it. Some people have the skills to sell people something they don't have, but many creative types are not great sales people. Depending what type of work you do and where you want to go is going to determine what gear you have, what gear you rent, what gear you should get. If you're doing smaller gigs, personal, indie, small corporate stuff, most schools etc, which is probably what he's doing, you have the luxury of picking and choosing what gear you use because your client most likely has no clue what the differences in gear are and what their capailities are. If you're doing or planning to do larger stuff, typically your client is going to have a bit more knowledge of what they want and are going to seek out a compnay that can meet their needs. I would say stepping up from a T2i to a 5DII is a good business investment if you're doing a lot of work and are on your way up in the video world and people are requesting capabilities you cannot achieve with your current setup. It allows you to do some things that the T2i can't. Maybe RED is the way to go for you. Maybe GH! to GH2. It all depends what your needs are and what your future needs are.

If this is a business, hopefully you have a solid business plan put together. Look at where you are, where you're going and decide if it's the right move for you because you "need" it and have outgrown your current stuff. Everybody "wants" stuff, but simply buying everything on wnat can get to be a very expensive hobby. Trust me, I have bought lots of stuff that I wanted at the time and shouldn't have.
 
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