Of course prices will drop as the technology matures and the customer base grows. However, the market for imagers is considerably smaller than that for computers or video games, so manufacturers will never be making millions of them and ecconomies of scale won't be as drastic as a mainstream consumer item. But if you keep waiting for prices to drop, you'll never buy a system. You gotta start sooner or later. C. --- Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> wrote:
Don't you think CCD prices will drop drastically? I can't help but feel they're high now just like PCs were when they first came out, but will go down as technology and production improve. My first PC was an IBM that cost around $5,000 about 1984, with "spin-writer" printer and a monochrome monitor. It didn't even have a hard drive. It's worthless now except as a museum piece. In a few years it was far outclassed by computers that were much less pricy. -- Joe
Joe Bauman science & military reporter Deseret News bau@desnews.com (801) 237-2169
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