Mike Johnston said: > The exemplar of this situation is the Contax Digital N1, which by all > accounts has pretty much been an unqualified disaster. The product is still > not in full release, has sold almost nothing, yet its pricing is no longer > even remotely supportable and its features and specs make it just verging on > obsolete before it has even started to earn any money. Yet it cost Kyocera a > king's ransom to develop, WAY more than the $5-10 million or so it costs to > develop a major new film camera. Many more products like this would have > Kyocera stockholders screaming for the managers' heads.
This might just display my profound ignorance, but what's so hard about it? If you have an SLR, half the camera is already designed, base the digital on a currently existing 35mm. That leaves you with the other half, the back, which includes the sensor and view screen. And I know it has things like a little computer and menu-driven things, but that sort of thing is pretty routine. Is it all just the sensor?
