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 p.4 #2 · Do you feel Sony is falling behind on the low to mid range FF market? | |
No, I don't think I'm missing the mark. I started looking at these comparisons years ago. While the Sony inflation adjusted price in this case is pretty constant over time, quite a few other cameras I have looked at have actually gotten less expensive in those terms.
Look into it — there are tons of examples. You can easily find inflation calculators online that let you plug in the list price at the time an earlier model was released and find out what the equivalent cost would be today.
As to the situation with young people, I understand, though I don't think it is as different as you think. Both of my sons do photography, one as part of his job. They both started with thrift store cameras and lenses that they picked up on the cheap — and they were thrilled to have them. They've since moved on to more modern stuff.
To a young buyer who wants to consider staring out with top end equipment — camera, lenses, tripod, bags/packs and all the rest of it — that has always been a very big lift, I'm afraid.
There are less-expensive new options, too. I'm not up enough on the Sony line-up to say what they are. (I'm mainly here to learn more about Sony in anticipation of a possible future move to the brand.) I'm more familiar with Canon, and that brand does have a bunch of less-expensive, entry-level bodies, just as in the past. You can get a FF RP for $799. (Back when I got my first FF body, the Canon 5D, shortly after it came out it was the least expensive FF body available... with a list price of $3300! In 2025 funds that would be $5,431.)
Again, I don't mean to lessen difficulties and costs of getting into photography with new equipment, but the truth is that if you follow any of the paths we followed back in the day and compare inflation adjusted prices between current and earlier options... I think you'll be surprised to find that things aren't more expensive today.
Dave Sanders wrote:
Your points are all well made - but it's still missing the mark. It's great that expensive cameras are costing the same or less, adjusted for inflation, but the price of the latest 'R' is irrelevant as it is not a low end, entry level camera. Young people cannot walk in to, say, Best Buy and buy Sony cameras that are cost competitive, and certainly not a FF camera.
An A7RII (my current camera, yikes!) may have cost $3200 in 2015, which was a lot...but there were a ton of options in the DSLR world for young people or people of not a lot of means to buy and use. Your points 2-5 just reinforce this - yes, it's not about the gear, yes you should focus on photos, yes you don't need the latest...hence why access to something priced like a Z50 or Z5 is important.
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