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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Gavin Stoker

I’m breaking the "gear junkie" habitand avoiding buying a new camera like the plague

2K7P6P0 Beautiful shop interior BH Photo Video c view of the shelves with photo and video cameras. USA, New York.

The key to any successful business is to get you spending – and, once hooked, to keep you spending. It’s far easier to keep an existing customer than win new ones.

Camera companies have had it easy in this respect. Once we’ve bought into their system, compatibility issues largely restrict us to their own manufactured lenses and accessories to go with it.

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