On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 12:04:01PM -0500, Graydon Saunders scripsit: > On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 11:48:46AM -0500, Adam Maas scripsit: > > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > [I assert Sony wants the other DSLR makers out of business] > > >> I suspect if they really wanted to put other DSLR makers out of business > > >> they wouldn't be selling sensors to Nikon and Pentax. > > > > > > Japan does have *some* anti-trust regulation, there may be long-term > > > contracts in place, and I'm pretty sure no one but Sony is still using > > > Sony sensors for the flagship cameras. Which is (I think) indicative. > > > > > > Anybody but Sony getting/using the A900/A850 sensor? > > > > Nikon, in the D3x. > > A900, top 9 results on Google Products -- 2,699 USD Release date, > September 2009.
2008, dammit. Must reset "last year" date macro. > D3x, same top 9 minus Amazon on Google Products -- 7,499 USD for 2 > vendors, 7,999 USD otherwise. More than twice the price. Release date > roughly Christmas, 2008. > > The 5 kUSD price difference is some mix of Sony subsidies to their > camera prices, Sony charging Nikon rather differently than they charge > themselves, and (presumptively) different actual bill of materials > costs. (Though I wouldn't bet the D3x is necessarily more expensive in > BOM terms, the 900's viewfinder would be an expensive item, for > example.) > > So, yeah, I'm wrong on the "nobody but Sony" point. I don't think I'm > wrong on the "dominant or crushing position" objective on Sony's part. > Making Nikon help pay for it is just icing from Sony's point of view. > > -- Graydon > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
