Is it me or it's getting completely stupid? How can Fuji charge $1700
for a camera which will be 100% obsolete in a couple of years?
It's all electronics, getting improved every month. One year is like a century.
What are they thinking? Seriously. I don't mind paying for a lens I know
is gonna last and be as good as today. But cameras are pretty much disposable.
I think $600 for NEX-5N is a fair price. $1200 is too much for NEX-7,
remember, it's gonna be half of that in 6 months! Look at the m43 cameras,
those prices go down so quickly, no doubt as they release a new one every 4 months...
It's ridiculous, it supposed to be getting cheaper, not more expensive.
Just wait six months, then enjoy the cheap cameras
Early adopters always pay a steep price, which is great for the rest of us who can wait until photographic gear trickles down into more affordable ranges.
snowboarder wrote:
Is it me or it's getting completely stupid? How can Fuji charge $1700
for a camera which will be 100% obsolete in a couple of years?
It's all electronics, getting improved every month. One year is like a century.
What are they thinking? Seriously. I don't mind paying for a lens I know
is gonna last and be as good as today. But cameras are pretty much disposable.
I think $600 for NEX-5N is a fair price. $1200 is too much for NEX-7,
remember, it's gonna be half of that in 6 months! Look at the m43 cameras,
those prices go down so quickly, no doubt as they release a new one every 4 months...
It's ridiculous, it supposed to be getting cheaper, not more expensive.
But do these cameras somehow explode after 1 year or do they deteriorate somehow? If not, then they must take the same quality images a year later as they did when you took them out of their wrapping. Who cares how much they are on the used market...just continue making great images. You'll never win the "need the latest greatest" technology race.
There are two parties in each transaction - seller and buyer. It's no surprise that Fuji will happily trade a small piece of electronics for $1700. That doesn't strike me as stupid at all. I'm wondering more about those who buy it at these prices. If few people would do this, the price would come down quickly.
I think we are all suffering from a little new camera fatigue. There has been a constant stream of new camera introductions over the past few months and it looks like it will continue for the rest of this year. The prices certainly would be crazy if you bought a camera every time the next great thing came out.
Prices are based on the markets each camera is sold into. The Fuji X-Pro 1 is very expensive relative to say a Sony NEX-5n - and it's likely the image quality will be roughly the same - but they are intended for completely different markets and have vastly different features as well as update schedules. Pro and semi-pro cameras have long update schedules, usually at least three years (and the Fuji falls into this category) whereas the more general consumer oriented cameras get updated much more often (Sony NEX 3, 5 but probably not the 7). m43 cameras do seem to drop quite a bit in price but I highly doubt the NEX-7 will be selling for half price in 6 months. We happen to be in a major update schedule right now so things do seem out of control.
Smiert Spionam wrote:
Look up the price of a new Nikon F2 in real dollars in 1973.
The biggest issue now is not price, but the depreciation curve, which wasn't nearly as pronounced in the film era.
True...and that Nikon F2 from 1973 is probably still going strong, forty years later. Pretty cheap actually when you depreciate the cost over all that time (and hopefully a client or someone else paid for all the film). I wonder how many cameras made today will still be able to function properly in the year 2050. So, yeah, the depreciation curve is not what it used to be.
Tariq Gibran wrote:
True...and that Nikon F2 from 1973 is probably still going strong, forty years later. Pretty cheap actually when you depreciate the cost over all that time (and hopefully a client or someone else paid for all the film). I wonder how many cameras made today will still be able to function properly in the year 2050. So, yeah, the depreciation curve is not what it used to be.
But now a days we fire off 500 shots with a DSLR in a good afternoon whereas in 73 if you shot off a couple of rolls you did just fine. So yeh, if you only shoot a roll's worth of digital images every outing...they just might last 50 years.
