Yeah, that's it. The same sort of thing happened with PC's. Remember what the first XT's cost?

Alan C

-----Original Message----- From: Bruce Walker
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 3:01 AM
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Subject: Re: When did equipment get so cheap?

Combination of very mature technology and outsourcing to Asian
sweatshops I guess.

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote:
When I bought my istD 10 short years ago, I recall dropping somewhat over
$3200.00 for the camera, battery grip, lens and some AA batteries that never
worked right.
I just checked the price on the FUji X-T1 and some nice lenses.

The body, 14mm, 23mm, and 60mm macro comes in at less than I paid for my
istD kit.

bill

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