Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
I just received this email from Mainline Photo (Voigtlander Distibutor) here in Australia.
Good news in some ways but I have to admit to having a little (lot of) intrepidation as to just how much it could potentially cost ... with the Oz exchange rate being so dismal and the general state of the world economy, not to mention my own personal recession, I'm not optomistic about ownership!
W
Way
Guest
Thanks for the info Keith! Looking forward to the details.
zanef2.8
Established
I used to think it's around $1200-1500AUD, now i begin to think it will be more because of the low AUD and recent increases on prices for the Bessas
laoyou
Member
In another forum it is said that it is 218,000 Yen in Japan. So it will be around AU$3,400, very expensive. Anyone in Japan who can confirm?
Pickett Wilson
Veteran
Odd to wait until a week before introduction to release a price. Got to be pretty pricey if they are holding that information back until the last minute.
john_s
Well-known
I was in Japan in December and checked the price of a certain Nikon lens (50mm f1.4 AFS) and it was much more expensive there than here in Melbourne. It all depends on the distributor.
laoyou
Member
It is a big heavy camera, 1kg & 178x109x138 mm http://www.fujifilm.co.jp/corporate/news/articleffnr_0250.html
sam_m
Well-known
Keith, heard anything on pricing from Mainline yet?
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
And ... this camera will have to be horrifically and unavoidably expensive in this country ... our dollar is worth squat against any major currency you name at the moment and has been for quite a while now!
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sam_m
Well-known
PMCC
Late adopter.
Oz price
Oz price
Hey Keith,
Is it the 13th in Oz yet? Let us know if you get a price announcement.
pmc
Oz price
Hey Keith,
Is it the 13th in Oz yet?
Let us know if you get a price announcement.pmc
I just received this email from Mainline Photo (Voigtlander Distibutor) here in Australia.
Good news in some ways but I have to admit to having a little (lot of) intrepidation as to just how much it could potentially cost ... with the Oz exchange rate being so dismal and the general state of the world economy, not to mention my own personal recession, I'm not optomistic about ownership!
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
Hey Keith,
Is it the 13th in Oz yet?
pmc
Maybe the distibutor is sitting there looking at the price he's been given to sell the folder in Oz from Cosina thinking ... "How am I going to tell them about this?"
Scott from Mainline is a smart operator and runs a very good business ... I've bought a couple of things from him and if he said the 13th I would be expecting an email today sometime ... but it is Friday 13th!
I hope that's not a bad omen.
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
I think Scott knows his target audience pretty well and will be well aware of how hard it may be to sell these for $3600.00 in this country. It doesn't matter how good the camera is, there's little adavantage in having a folder with AE because realistically that's it's only advantage over what's gone before.
A few collectors will get them no doubt but in a country with our population wise MF shooters will baulk which doesn't leave much of a market!
chippy
foo was here
No doubt everyone on the Aussie list would have recieved the email. Scott seems to say there has been NO official price released from Japan yet and it may be that Germany is jumping the gun with their price....maybe it holds a small and faint hope that it will actually come out with a reasonable price tag! .......wait and see senario no doubt