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Re:Magic Lantern by larrywright on Monday February 18, 2019 @04:09PM (#19194484)
There are a lot of mechanical controls on DSLRs, and they see heavy use over long periods of time. Building those to withstand hundreds of thousands of operations, and making them dust and water sealed is probably not inexpensive.
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Re:Magic Lantern by solarkraft on Monday February 18, 2019 @04:32PM (#19194649)
Then again I don't think it's that expensive either.

I suspect the problem here to be scale.

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Re:Magic Lantern by bsder on Monday February 18, 2019 @04:56PM (#19194852)
$1,000 retail thing is generally $300 bill of materials.

I suspect that those are above a $300 BOM given the display, sensor, and plethora of mechanical things (buttons, threads, etc.).

Mechanicals are very expensive compared to electronics. And cameras have LOTS of mechanical thingys.

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Re:Magic Lantern by dogsgobork on Monday February 18, 2019 @06:48PM (#19195564)
The shutter for a typical DSLR can be expected to last for 100,000 shots, if not longer, while opening and closing in 1/8000th of a second. It's impressive engineering.
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Re:Magic Lantern by larrywright on Monday February 18, 2019 @04:44PM (#19194758)
Probably so, my main point was that comparing it to a plastic box with a few buttons and a big screen isn’t really a fair comparison.
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