Dave C wrote: skibum5 wrote: Dave C wrote:
At 2008 price of $2699, yen conversion at the time is 287,905. At 2012 price of $3499, converts to 284,468 yen.
Eosfun said they built a very large profit margin into the 5D3 design.
They may have done so with both cameras, or just with the MkIII. I have no idea how the total manufacturing/marketing cost of each camera compares.
I thought he said they made sure to make the profit margin very large THIS TIME.
But who knows for sure.
But do you see any piece in it that would make it cost even $1 more than the D800 to produce?
As for Yen vs USD the D800 costs LESS than the D700 into price.
