Public service announcement:

[AndyS]

8. In defense of the Jury system and the Admins

the photo industry is a different sort of retail environment. The average consumer is accustomed to seeing SUPER SALE! PRICE REDUCED! at every opportunity. Camera's were once like that and it almost killed the retail market.

Now when a new first gen product is introduced a manufacturer tries to recover R&D costs before any 'sale price' is established. So if a product is price reduced in the first year or so it's a big deal. If some product has been difficult to ship like, just picking a product at random, the OM1 and it's discounted 20% or some other phenomenal amount at some large retailer like say, Amazon? and it's reduced $420 that would be worthy of note. Ya' know kinda' like a news headline?

I think I'll post a 'history' of the camera retail market from my own experience.