Thanks Marc it was working before LA fine but maybe in transit it got messed up. I will order a new one I guess although I really want to get away from DVD's all together. i will just give the client a 16gb thumb drive Monday. T
Sorry I went OT
Keeping it OT : -) ... yeah Guy, I've also been giving Wedding clients Thumb Drives as a promo item, along with the DVDs which are those Gold Archival type. Most of my commercial ad agency clients now have their own FTP sites or the art director brings a HD which are cheap as dirt these days.
On-T:
If the OP has the money then it's his decision to move up. However, the advice to stick with what he has is not all bad since there will be so many unknowns as he starts his photo career. Quite frankly, not a lot of assignments require more than a P30. Yet, without specifics as to the OPs photographic intent and actual applications, we can all speculate until the cows come home.
I agree that the Hassey upgrade paths are odd and sometimes confusing ...like the similar trade differences between getting a H4D/50 and H4D/60 mentioned. Just as odd is that a H3D and H3D-II trade value is the same. I have a very low count H3D-II/39 which yields the same trade value as an older H3D/39 with 100,000 shots on it :wtf:
Side note: anyone with a H3D-II/50 can have the body upgraded to a H4D in Denmark for $1,500. If they offered that on my 39 I might have given it serious consideration.
In the end, the only other competition (other than the H4D/60) for my upgrade path from my H3D-II/39 ... is to a H4D/50 Multi-Shot. Not much difference in trade price. The Multi-Shot 50 would be quite a studio camera, and can still be used as a single shot.
Have to go ... my GSA (Gear Sluts Anonymous) supporting sponsor is calling with a threat of enacting a full blown intervention :ROTFL:
-Marc