Any older digital cameras out there still going strong? Are you resisting the marketing hype to get that new, state of the art camera?
Since I bought a used 2005 Canon 5D "classic" recently I thought it may be of interest to report back. I was looking forward, to a 6D Mk2 or a 5D Mk4, when I started hearing that the amazing pro cameras of the past, like the original 5D, didn't suddenly become bad cameras. So I grabbed one, for <10% of the price of the latest 5D.
The 5D is a 13Mp full frame but my "modern" 20Mp 6D is no spring-chicken any more (launched 2012). My S120 12Mp compact is from 2013 so I have a camera bag full of fairly old, in Digital Camera terms, technology.
I have to say that, when used correctly* at 100-400 ISO, the old 5D is perfectly good enough for my use (portraits, street & landscape).
*By correctly I mean you need to get your exposure spot on, it clearly doesn't support "pushing" an underexposed image very well, it gets noisy very quickly.
I'll throw some test shots up when I get time but it's clear that the 6D handles poor exposures a lot better, I'd estimate 2-3 stops better.
I certainly never worry about missing an exposure by 2 stops with the 6D.
I think I'd be happy to use the 5D to its 1600 max ISO in good lighting, for a portrait (You can expand it to 3200 but it's a bit grim) The noise looks like the grain I used to get when pushing FP4 to 1600 ISO (ASA) and I don't mind grain in a portrait.
I think I may default to shooting 3 bracketed images on the 5D, to make sure I nail the exposure.
Mainly though, it's a superb camera, built like a bloody tank and as close to an old 35mm film SLR as you can get (no video, no live-view, just a camera with a relatively limited ISO range). It makes you concentrate on taking a photos and getting it right.
Certainly it makes for a more than adequate backup to my 6D.
£260 for the body off of of Ebay. A Classic in the making.
My S120 on the other hand gets used less and less, as my Samsung Galaxy S7 is mostly good enough for the type of images I was taking with it*.
I won't sell it though, it's something of a classic (the Canon S series are built superbly well) itself.
*Like the photo of the cameras above.