When Sigma announced its SD1 digital camera its price was $9,700 now listed at $6,899.00 at B&H Store with a tag of “New item – No arrival date known”.
The Sigma COO, Kazuto Yamaki, responded on Twitter to some photographers asking about the SD1 price, This is his Twitter account.
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If this is correct, my interpretation is:
“This really is a £2000 camera, you should judge it as a £2000 camera and compare it to £2000 cameras but owing to our engineering difficulties, it’s going to cost you £6,000. Sorry about that.”
So we are back to: who will buy a camera that is 3 or 4x over-priced owing to engineering problems. It was never meant to be a MF or D3x competitor, yet it ends up going up against them.
Dead in the water, surely?
