Medium format back prices ludicrous

"Rich" wrote in message
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peter wrote in news:4d40bc83$0$5627
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On 1/25/2011 12:37 AM, RichA wrote:
The price of an entry-level car? 4000lbs of steel, plastic, aluminum,
electronics, base metals, rubber, etc., the same as a 1.5lb piece of
electronics?. Pure insanity. Those things aren't radiation-hardened
and going into space, so is it solely the R&D and the sensor being
paid for here? It certainly isn't the $10-$20 worth of electronics or
the LCD screen...

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Pricing, Availability and Other News

Phase 80MP back.
The IQ180 back will start to ship in late April, 2011. The IQ160 and
IQ140 will become available over the following couple of months.

The IQ180 will be priced at US $43,990.

So if you see a price vacuum, fill it. That's the capitalist system. To
constantly carp how some mysterious corporation is overcharging, is
pure
communist propaganda.



Honestly? I think cameras like it and a lot of other things today ARE
communist, because they want to force people into the renter's market and
not the owner's market. Look at Microsoft trying to force everyone to
cloud computing, no more ownership of software. Look at movies, moving
away from owned copies like DVD and Blu-Ray to streamed movies from
services. All control in the hands of others. It is ALL a form of
communism.

There is no owning of software. You purchase a license to use it, you never
own it.