Re: New Fujifilm X-Pro1 interchangeable lens at CES
rscheffler wrote: Tariq Gibran wrote: corposant wrote: anselwannab wrote:
The lenses are pretty cheap, the body is expensive. Maybe the thought is that if people are going to throw a lot of m-mount glass on the camera, they make the money on the body and keep the lenses cheap enough that people get new lenses rather than resurrect old glass. It will be interesting to see if the zooms are more expensive than the primes. Lots of m primes, not so many zooms.
Prices are set by the market, not by costs.
The M system is the same way - and it\'s even an \"open\" system as well. Many lenses (excluding the Tri-Elmars) are less than half of the cost of the camera. Include the Zeiss lenses, and it\'s even more heavily weighted to the camera.
Yeah, those Leica lenses are quite the bargain!
Considering that most are constantly on backorder, it would appear that there isn\'t a shortage of buyers and the market could bear even higher prices, as crazy as that sounds.
I agree about the Fuji. Everyone who wants to play will have to buy the body, but many will be coming with their own set of lenses.
As far as Leica is concerned with their digital M bodies, I think it\'s partly like that, but also keep in mind they have a much, much smaller group of potential buyers. IIRC, it was recently announced that they surpassed 30K M9s, which was more than they originally projected. Therefore the price of the M9 was probably partially set based on their originally anticipated sales volume relative to R&D costs, etc.. and what the market will bear.
Before the M9, Leica had been making losses for 10 years straight, and the shareholders kept covering those losses out of their pockets for some reason. Personally I had started to believe that they dont give 2 shits about money, and sometimes I still believe it
