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R8 predicted specs: Full frame at $1499

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SafariBob
SafariBob Veteran Member • Posts: 3,850
Re: Sensor manufacturing cost
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dmartin92 wrote:

Sorry, but I will hang on to my suspicion that the manufacturing cost difference between a full frame sensor camera and an aps-c sensor camera is very small.

But the other points you make are probably very true. Stuff like « old sensors », etc. Yes.

All I was saying was « full frame cost » vs. « cropped sensor cost »… no big difference.

Sensors are made on fixed size wafers such as 300mm. Twice the area, twice the cost.

sensors are probably becoming a lesser proportion of overall camera cost though, and I think most manufacturers are looking to ditch apsc like Leica.

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