Herb Chong wrote:
someone has to pay the startup cost.
True.
if you wait until that is paid for, your competition has the market
sewn up.
Yes. That's one of the reasons why many people on this list say that
Pentax ought to compete in the high-end DLSR market, isn't it? And I
guess being an early adopter at least means you can make *some* of the
money back by asking a very high price for the equipment that initially
uses the new technology (because you have no competition yet.)
Herb....
----- Original Message ----- From: "Toralf Lund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: OT - Upping the anti
Herb Chong wrote:
the Dalsa sensors for 22MP cameras were "in excess of $5K" in OEM
quantities.
That's certainly a lot. Still, the price doesn't necessarily say much
about what Dalsa's cost per unit was, or (perhaps more interesting)
what it cost them to make one extra once the production equipment was
up-and-running.
