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jamie123
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Sorry but your "if they were animals" analogy is ridiculous. Low numbers does not equal endangered. It's not like the MFD companies used to produce millions of backs a year and now they're down to a few hundred.That's the real potential impact of high-res 35mm cameras.
The MFD market is tiny. If they were animals they would be on the endangered list and close to the top.
What studio would look beyond the bottom line? which is not "is a D800 (or Canon whatever) as good as a MFD" the bottom line is "Is a D800 good enough".
Now people use analogies like high end cars or computer servers to illustrate why nothing can possibly affect the survival of the MFD survival, none of these analogies take into account how much more fragile the MFD model is and how much higher it is on the endangered list.
I dont think anyone would want the MFD to dissapear but they have to get cheaper and more realistic, they have to compete. The upward creep in prices by MFD companies is as harmful as the 35mm erosion.
An example of 'competing' would be when Phase released their new IQ backs...the price should have the same as the backs they currently offered not 10 or 15 grand more (e.g. IQ40 should have replaced P40)... Now the MFD suppliers would laugh at that idea but there you go- one step higher on the endangered list for you...
Should MFD backs be cheaper? Sure. Preferably free so I can afford to get one.
It's simply pointless to talk about what the price 'should' be if you don't know the numbers behind it. I'm sure they could lower the price a bit but how much? Cetainly not enough to get into mid-range Canon and Nikon territory.
And if they lowered the price of e.g. a $36k back to $30k, would that really attract 20%+ additional business? (Which actually still wouldn't make up for the loss as this doesn't factor in the additional manufactoring costs)
I'm sure all the MFD makers are constantly looking at changes in the market and trying to adapt. If they find that they can make more money by lowering their prices, I'm sure that's exactly what they'll do.