jamesf99 Offline Buy and Sell: On
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danmitchell wrote:
Regarding GPS: If Canon's cost per camera for adding GPS were $30-$40, we could expect that the sale prices of the camera increase by more than $100. (Manufacturers don't add features "at cost" without building the cost plus margin into the price.)
While some users might think that this addition is worth $100+, I think most wouldn't. I could see adding the capability to interface with existing GPS units or something along those lines.
For the extra cost, I can think of other things that would be more valuable to photographers. (MLU button, anyone? :-)
Dan
I'm the one that suggested $30-$40 or less. My original statement was "Estimated cost, probably under $30-$40 per camera, if that." I really don't believe it would be anywhere near that, but I was countering and humoring the ridiculous statement by another poster who said that it would cost $600.
Even if the chip cost $20, which I also highly doubt, but again I used what the other poster said, the per camera cost would be minimal. Once you allocate space on the board, or even replace an existing IC with one that has GPS built in, it's a simple matter of writing the firmware to handle it as I said. It probably wouldn't take a programmer more than 1 hour to incorporate a new variable into the raw format buffer. That accounts for the time it would take to "check the code out of the code management system, update the buffer with a new variable field (there's already space), test, check the code back in, go home for the day..
In summary, this would not add $100 to the camera. As I already said, Canon should throw it in and if they do add it, I don't think we'll see an up charge for it.
Edited by jamesf99 on Jan 21, 2007 at 06:42 PM GMT
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