Here is someone who did:
http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2006/04/trading_in.html
Mike.
AG Schnozz wrote:
>>This blog was interesting. Evidently a lot of photographers
>>have decided that 12MP is enough and are dumping their boat
>>anchor IDsMkII for 5Ds. Bargain alert because it is common
>>enough to cause the price of a used 16MP to really drop, if
>>you don't mind the size.
>>
>
>This one doesn't pass the smell test. Sorry. If there are
>people trading them in, it's because the 1DSxxx was already "too
>much camera" for them. These are typically "Holy Grail" people
>and are all infatuated with the clean ISO 3200 performance or
>some stupid thing like that. They had no useful purpose for an
>industrial-strength camera in the first place.
>
>If this is true that people are dropping them in droves, then
>screw the 1DS thoughts, I'll score a 1DSMII for about the same
>price. There are probably a couple thousand idiots out there
>that are trying to duplicate Michael Reichmann's MF rig right
>now and suddenly realizing that 16MP is junk.
>
>More power to them. If Olympus isn't going to give me an E-3 (or
>whatever), then I'll just have to pretend that the 1DSMII is it.
> I'm saving my pennies, folks. I refuse to get a "me too"
>20D/30D/5D POS.
>
>Unlike them, I CAN live with 16MP for a while.
>
>AG
>
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