Last week we took a snapshot of the prices of 35mm Full Frame cameras and Mirrorless Cameras and Compacts with RAW. You can guess where this is heading - we now have a snapshot of the prices of APS-C DSLRs!
The prices are a snapshot in ...
Last week we took a snapshot of the prices of 35mm Full Frame cameras and Mirrorless Cameras and Compacts with RAW. You can guess where this is heading - we now have a snapshot of the prices of APS-C DSLRs!
The prices are a snapshot in time, the snapshot was taken on May-22-2013 in the afternoon. The prices will not be updated in the chart below. It is a snapshot. The prices are the lowest price between Amazon and Adorama and B&H Photo. More details on the data after the chart...
As you can see in the Chart below, we have an ugly anti-free-market price stagnation. The prices don't feel natural or organic, because they are dictated directly by the manufacturers and not by the free market. The only exceptions with market prices are older models, typically two generations or older than the current model. From a "DSLR Evangelist" perspective (if you are a DSLR fan who thinks everyone seriously interested in photography should get a DSLR), this price-control discourages more new people or upgraders to buy more DSLRs. Rant ends - for now :)
Where Did The Prices Come From
The prices are a snapshot in time, the snapshot was taken on May-22-2013 in the afternoon. This particular chart is frozen in time, the prices will NOT be updated.
The prices are the lowest price for each camera between Amazon and Adorama and B&H Photo. The more retailers we check, the longer this exercise would take, so we limited it to three of the most recognizable benchmark retailers. A lot of other well-known retailers sell at Amazon, so in a way, Amazon is a price-search-engine of its own.
The prices are for new condition models, USA warranty models, not imports/gray-market/etc. At Amazon, we only took into consideration the lowest price between Amazon herself and reputable + authorized 3rd-party sellers. Some of the 3rd-party sellers at Amazon are not authorized and some are not reputable - we ignored those! If we were not certain whether a retailer was authorized/reputable and we couldn't easily figure it out, we ignored their prices.
For cameras with multiple body colors, we picked the lowest price among the various body colors.
Free accessories and other promotions are not factored in the chart above - if they were, we would never finish this for a number of reasons (eg figuring out real world value for the free accessories or other bonuses).
If a camera was not available for purchase at any of the three retailers per the requirements above, it is not included in the chart.
We only include manufacturer kits, not kits created by individual retailers on their own or by extracting the body onlies.
In general, we include the body only for the more advanced cameras, and the "with 18-55 kits" for the entry-level cameras. However, in a few cases, the kit prices were very close or better in price, so we included the kits with lenses (eg Sony A57 body was $400 vs $420 with kit lens, Nikon D90). In a few other cases, only one manufacturer-kit was available, so we included the one that was available.
We were tempted to include both "body only" and "with 18-55" kits for most DSLRs, however, as you can see from above, the Chart is already long. Adding another dozen or more kits would have made it less readable and manageable.
The SD1 with the Ridiculous Price was not included for two reasons: 1) the SD1 Merrill is essentially the same camera 2) it would destroy the chart, it would turn it into an "L" :)
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