Quote Originally Posted by ny biker View Post
The Nikon camera is fantastic.
Reminded me of this:

https://youtu.be/pLsDxvAErTU?t=56s

I may have missed it somewhere, which Nikon do you have? I have a 5-year old Nikon DSLR (D5000) which I've loved. Since taking a landscape photography workshop this spring, I've toyed with the idea of upgrading the body to a D7200. But the D5000 is still working well, and I'm not out there using it enough to really justify the upgrade.

For the times when I want more than my smartphone but not lug around the Nikon, I recently bought the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX100 (really, how do they come up with these unwieldy model names/numbers?). Fabulous little camera! Not quite the zoom range I would have preferred, but that was a more than acceptable trade-off to get the fantastic photo quality and the other features I wanted.

As far as computers go, my DH complains that his PCs seem to have such a short life span. Of course he rarely turns the thing off, that must impact the durability too, doesn't it? He seems to get about 3-5 years out of them when they crash. And repairing seems to cost almost as much as replacement these days.