Huge discounts on the GFX 50

[HHPhoto]

Hi,

so it is now about a 3/4 year that the GFX hit most markets.
A very short time span.
Nevertheless Fujifilm in Europe / Germany is already selling the GFX 50 at huge discounts - up to 1300€ (!) with certain lenses:

https://www.fujifilm.eu/de/produkte/digitalkameras/aktuelle-aktionen

In all the decades I do photography I've never experienced the case that after less than one year you already get such huge discounts on a camera (system).
Looks like the GFX 50 is not selling.......too low demand.

I am not so surprised, because I think the higher resolution options with 35mm / FF DSLRs from Nikon, Canon, Pentax and Sony on the one hand, and real medium format film camera systems on the other hand offer a much, much better price-performance ratio.
The GFX 50 system is too expensive for what it offers.

Cheers, Jan

 

[waileong]

Hmmm. 1300 euros discount for a medium format quality camera with lens?

But what is the price before discount?

 

[HHPhoto]

Hmmm. 1300 euros for a medium format quality camera with lens?

No, the discount with certain lenses is up to 1300€.
The discount to the former price.
The whole price is of course much higher.

Cheers, Jan

 

[Axel]

In fact every camera Fuji presented the last years had a very strong price the first few months. My X-M1 for example was at nearly half of its first price after around 15 months on the market...

I don´t think that you can guess about the profitability of a product from price increases anyway today. May be, may be the opposite that it´s a simple strategy to collect all money from "early adopters" and push product now, maybe both...

 

[Skiff]

Looking here at Rangefinderforum - which is one of the bigger international forums - shows that so far not a single forum member has bought a Fuji GFX.
At least so far no one has reported about his purchase, or has posted pictures.

Maybe that is an indicator that the demand for this system is indeed quite low.

 

[brbo]

Looking here at Rangefinderforum - which is one of the bigger international forums - shows that so far not a single forum member has bought a Fuji GFX.
At least so far no one has reported about his purchase, or has posted pictures.

Maybe that is an indicator that the demand for this system is indeed quite low.

At least one user here has GFX. No pictures, though...

 

[Skiff]

At least one user here has GFX. No pictures, though...

Thanks.
I've overlooked that.

But only one user in such a big forum. Not much indeed.

 

[jsrockit]

Looking here at Rangefinderforum - which is one of the bigger international forums - shows that so far not a single forum member has bought a Fuji GFX.
At least so far no one has reported about his purchase, or has posted pictures.

Maybe that is an indicator that the demand for this system is indeed quite low.

It's not easy to pay for for most of us... and I think we are mostly a small format forum generally. The big dollar items here tend to be Leica.

As far as discounts... Fuji ALWAYS discounts its cameras and I would not read into this as it not selling well.

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

Fuji does this with all its cameras! It's a big part of their marketing scheme. I suspect the GFX is doing pretty well.

 

[Axel]

It's not easy to pay for for most of us...

That´s it for me. I would buy it if I had the money.

 

[Sal Santamaura]

Perhaps buyers are waiting until 2019 to see how much the GFX 100s will cost. I'm not aware of any 100 megapixel FF competition for it. 🙂