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Old September 13th 18, 10:07 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
Savageduck[_3_]
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Default Why are FF MILCs so Expensive !

On Sep 13, 2018, David Taylor wrote
(in article ):

On 13/09/2018 18:41, wrote:
Anyone ?


The manufacturers wish to make a profit, as do their shareholders, and
the distribution and retail chain. Newcomers such as Nikon and Canon
will want to recover their development costs, and like to price the
items as "premium" products (and, of course, the great majority of users
don't need FF, so sales are likely to be relatively small, especially if
new lenses are required.

I think there's at least an element of truth in the above
tongue-in-cheek remarks!


....and there are a whole mob of non-pro individuals who are insanely brand
faithful, think they have the very best, and have been conditioned to believe
that FF is the only way, because that is what Canon & Nikon have told them.
Also FF sensors are more costly than M45, & APS-C sensors, just as MF sensors
are more costly than FF sensors. Just wait until folks hear what the new 100MB
MF sensor cameras are going to cost.

Remember, all the leading MILCs from Olympus, Panasonic, Sony, Fujifilm, and
even Leica have been going after the same pie eroding the sale of the Canon &
Nikon APS-C & FF DSLRs, and with Nikon 85% of their DSLR business is not with
FF, but APS-C. However, there has been massive loss of FF share to Sony, and
they are not going to take that sitting down.

Personally, I have no need for FF in a DSLR, or MILC, never have, and that is
one of the things which steered me away from Nikon 3 years ago.

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Regards,
Savageduck