The price is actually also a choice of the vendors. Some of it is actual economies of scale, returns on R&D and cost of manufacturing, but some is certainly a d

The price is actually also a choice of the vendors. Some of it is actual economies of scale, returns on R&D and cost of manufacturing, but some is certainly a deliberate choice of where to position the product on the market. They build (or used to, until very recently) considerably inferior mirrorless cameras, but did not price them proportionally lower compared to the SLR ones, because they would again cannibalize their sales by doing it.