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GH4, GH5, and GX80 are practically same, by DXO

Started Jul 13, 2018 | Discussions thread
peppermonkey Veteran Member • Posts: 5,204
I think you got the analogy wrong...

kravemir wrote:

I know about the high cost of (non-)software development. It's invisible time spent to think about things, design better things, and millions of wrong attempts until the success,... It all costs time, it costs material,... But, it's not visible and not touchable by a customer. Customer only gets a piece of metal, silicon, and other stuff, which came out of factory.

As a software developer, I know SW development isn't free. Also, development of ASIC(s) to perform specific purpose using low-power isn't cheap either. There's just tons of time and material spent by development, which has to be paid, somehow.

But, I just though that more expensive cameras would perform better. Didn't think about it from feature development perspective,...

AND, that makes me glad! It's great to know, that they are not artificially crippling lower-end models just by putting a few cents cheaper, but much worse, sensors in them.

Think more along the lines of features. Think Wordpad vs Word. Assuming the contents the same (words), they produce the exact same thing.

So why is one vastly more expensive than the other (course one being free)? Features and performance (speed, buffer etc). That's the exact same reason GH4 and GH5 is more expensive than G80.

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