Hi! JT> I am trying to fathom the economics of producing a DSLR to sell at U.S. JT> $900 (the *ist Djr?). Start with the *ist D, retaining its sensor (as JT> Canon did), then: ... the rest snipped ...
Joseph, why don't you try to apply same logics for Canon Eos 10D and Rebel D. Nevertheless Rebel D (who is known to share sensor with 10D) sells for about 2/3 of price of its bigger sibling and obviously Canon is not loosing money selling them as fast as they can produce them... I honestly think that price of *istD's sensor has been somewhat exaggerated. Other than that, I can see your point. Well, I can only tell you this story, which is about 4 years old. When Palm Vx came out it costed about $450. And people where buying it because it was "razor" thin, trendy, stylish, etc. It was a big hit. Some of the folks of the company for which I worked were on some exhibition somewhere in USA. Palm were also on the same exhibition. I was given a call in the middle of the night inviting me to buy Palm Vx for $240 brand new. Unfortunately, few weeks before that I bought Palm IIIe (bottom end) for $180 and had exhausted my money. During the single week of this exhibition Palm sold at least 10,000 units of Vx at this seemingly low price. I am sure they've made a huge profit and huge publicity for themselves and their product. JT> Ergo, I suspect that the production cost of the *ist D is at the point JT> where it could already be sold for about what the Economalist D will cost. Yes of course. How can it be otherwise? Peace! Boris
