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There are a lot of mechanical controls on DSLRs, and they see heavy use over long periods of time. Building those to withstand hundreds of thousands of operatio
by larrywright 8y ago
There are a lot of mechanical controls on DSLRs, and they see heavy use over long periods of time. Building those to withstand hundreds of thousands of operations, and making them dust and water sealed is probably not inexpensive.
- solarkraft 8y agoThen again I don't think it's that expensive either. I suspect the problem here to be scale.
- larrywright 8y agoProbably so, my main point was that comparing it to a plastic box with a few buttons and a big screen isn’t really a fair comparison.
- bsder 8y ago$1,000 retail thing is generally $300 bill of materials. I suspect that those are above a $300 BOM given the display, sensor, and plethora of mechanical things (buttons, threads, etc.). Mechanicals are very expensive compared to electronics. And cameras have LOTS of mechanical thingys.
- dogsgobork 8y agoThe shutter for a typical DSLR can be expected to last for 100,000 shots, if not longer, while opening and closing in 1/8000th of a second. It's impressive engineering.