>>4214367G mount is already a "fuck you, this isn't your camera" to X mount users. They're just grabbing the people who couldn't afford the good hasselblads.
>>4214373It CANT be $2750. The GFX100s sensor alone, with A7RII/A7RIII base tech and a gapped microlens array, is probably close to $1k/unit. As die size and die complexity increase, cost increases exponentially.
Here's some perspective on camera parts cost from canon circa 2006
http://media.the-digital-picture.com/Information/Canon-Full-Frame-CMOS-White-Paper.pdfThin disks of silicon called “wafers” are used as the raw material of semiconductor manufacturing. Depending upon its composition, (for example, high-resistivity silicon wafers have much greater electrical field depth -- and broader spectral response -- than low-resistivity wafers) an 8" diameter wafer could cost as much as $450 to $500, $1,000 or even $5,000. After several hundred process steps, perhaps between 400 and 600 (including, for example, thin film deposition, lithography, photoresist coating and alignment, exposure, developing, etching and cleaning), one has a wafer covered with sensors. If the sensors are APS-C size, there are about 200 of them on the wafer, depending on layout and the design of the periphery of each sensor. For APS-H, there are about 46 or so. Full-frame sensors? Just 20.
imagine the reject rate for DX MF.
