Quote Originally Posted by DavidEccleston
Neuro, A fullframe DSLR may cost less than some students spend on near useless textbooks over their 3-4 year degrees. Also several hundred dollars a year from my tuition went towards supporting the school's sports teams. At least they're getting something useful that they plan to use for years to come. I bet the resale value is better on the camera than used text books too.

Too true...but the outlay for the FF dSLR is up front and all at once, not amortized over several years. I can absolutely confirm that I get more use from my 5DII than from the thousands of dollars worth of textbooks sitting in my office and on a bookshelf in the basement at home. At least I didn't pay for all of them - between my time spent teaching and my wife being a professor, we get a lot of instructor copies for free (but even then, the digital files that come with the books are often more useful than the printed volumes).