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for this to work it would have to be full frame. you are basically appealing to people who are looking at the leica edition 60 and giving them a cheaper alternative. people who would be ok making a compromise on not having full frame would have already gone the fuji route. most people would've already had a DSLR or A7 type of camera before considering your offering, so you'll really have to lure them into buying this additional camera which is redundant.
you'd really have to focus on the build. maybe it'd be a good idea to go with black painted over brass so the patina will show through like those old black M3 that goes for $20k on ebay... The camera will have to be really quiet, and taking a picture would be like hearing a mouse sneezing. all the knobs and switches has got to feel amazing. This is a street camera primarily.
for engineering, make sure germans are involved for marketing purposes. it doesn't matter if you make this camera in china but just make sure at least one german dude is involved in the engineering team. make him talk in the kickstarter video with his sexy accent.
make sure steve huff gets the pre-release model.
consider the mount. do you REALLY want to go with the nikon mount? i don't think that mount has many great lenses (compared to contax, leica r, FD, minolta MD, olympus, etc). The adaptability of lenses to the nikon mount also aren't the best.
price, if you use old sensor tech it would be difficult to charge high prices. i think maybe a two tiered pricing system? $1200 ish for a basic model (A900/ 5D mark 2/ D700 sensor), and $2500 for a brass finished higher end model (A7 or A7R sensor). or, you can do CCD. i bet CCD will look great in the marketing material.
will i buy one? probably not, but hipsters will. i'd probably just shoot film at that point.
if you can put the same effort into making a macro lens adapter kit for scanning film, that thing would sell well for sure.
Edited on Sep 26, 2016 at 09:40 PM · View previous versions
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