yes, but a mint M10 can be found at that price and I don't know why one would choose this new pixiie over the M10
Hmm. Lessee: My 64G Pixii cost me US$3282 in 2022. Dollar and Euro are pretty close nowadays, so that's a smidge over €3000. The new model is €4000 ... or roughly 25% more. That does not seem out of line with other manufacturers' product lines where they offer both APS-C and a FF sensor models. The Pixii cameras are expensive, for sure, but given the limited, niche market audience they are addressing, and their own limited production capabilities, it's not like they're trying to rape the buyers.
... And the comparison between the new price of one model camera against the
used price of a different camera ... Well, someone had to pay the full price of that used camera at some point, or it wouldn't be there for you to prefer. Manufacturers only make money by selling NEW products, generally. So
someone has to pay the new camera price or the manufacturer won't be in business for very long.
I didn't keep my early 2022 Pixii ... It had issues that I found overwhelmed its usefulness to me (not the fact of it having only an eshutter at all, curiously ... mostly haptics in use and power consumption, much of which has been improved dramatically with later revisions of the APS-C model and will likely be similarly improved on this new FF model). I bought a
new Leica M10 Monochrom when I returned the Pixii, which drained my piggy bank of nearly three times the price. But I don't regret it one bit: the M10-M is probably the best new camera I've ever owned and was/is worth every penny of that absurd price.
Price is not a very good criteria for whether a camera is a good value, taken by itself. Neither is APS-C vs FF format, for that matter. The value comes from use: if the new Pixii FF model proves to be a useful camera that incites its owner to make more and better photographs, then I'll call it a good value.
Bravo, Pixii! I hope the new model lives up to its promise and inspires a lot of photographers who cannot afford a NEW M11 for whom the rangefinder camera experience is key.
I, however, am out of the market: I have my M10-M, and the second-hand M10-R that I acquired because I liked the M10-M so much and wanted a color capable version of. I doubt I can utilize more than some small percentage of either of these' capabilities, so a new Pixii or M11 or whatever isn't in the cards. I'd be better off putting my energy and time into using them more, and my money into travel (and film for my film cameras...).
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