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First of all this is my first attempt at blogging from my smartphone - and if my daughter is looking in, yes I'm using both thumbs.
I'm actually on a train returning from an event in London where GE have just launched some new cameras. Who are GE? . I can hear you asking. Well, besides being a licensee of the big General Electric brand, they are an up and coming budget digicam brand. And I have come away really impressed.
So where shall I start? How about a �129 price tag for their new X5 bridge camera, complete with 15x optically stabilised zoom lens, and 14 megapixels? Or what about a slim and stylish compact with a fully-featured touch-screen user interface for only �169? GE also unveiled a novel designer compact camera, finished in grey leather, the artistic brainchild of emerging fashion star Jason Wu.
So I ask myself - if GE can make money making and selling cameras like these, at prices like these, why do other camera manufacturers ask us to pay so much more for similar or even lower-spec cameras?
It all boils down to the perceived value of certain brands, sometimes irrespective of actual product quality.
Would you buy a GE camera?
I also raise the question are they making a profit or selling low to get market share, big corporations can & do this sort of thing.
One thing a will say the cost of cameras and kit for that matter cars what you will is all relative to the time we live. Cameras generally (there will be one or two exceptions there always is) are cheaper now than they were 20 years ago as a percentage of income, and even cheaper than when I first became interested in photography in the late 1950's. again as a percentage of income.
Patrick
any web links to specs etc?
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