Battou
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Because blowing an R&D budget to alienate 99% of your customer base just to satisfy users who could simply use features, or rather ignore the additional features, in every other model of camera in your current line up is just poor business practice?
I'm thinking more along the lines of building a dSLR that does not have to compensate for that R&D budget. Even if it where built like a thirty year old tank, with out the the additional technology companies could put a fully functional dSLR into the $150-$200 price range.
They would sell. Contrary to popular belief people still have a hard time justifying $500+ on a used dSLR with kit lens. Sacrificing program modes, auto modes and whatever modes for $200 dSLR with kit lens new, compatable with whatever current lens linup is an easier decision to make. This could bring dSLR ownership to a wider range of buyers. This would be a better business practice than blowing more R&D budget on super zoom P&S's. It may not be a nice game to play but, business is not a nice battlefield to be on as you well know. The camera being fully manual will not be an easy camera to use. Dedicated beginners can learn alot but many will be left wanting more seeking a bigger better dSLR with all the extras, for this they would need to buy one of what we currently call dSLR. After one has owned their first SLR/dSLR camera justifying $500+ to upgrade is not as a difficult task. Unlike superzoom P&S's in order to operate this super technically simplified dSLR one still needs lenses. Having lenses has a profound impact on what one buys next propogating the brand name line up with loyal buyers where a superzoom P&S can not.
Something like this would be the cheap bastard that gets sucked up by, people on a tight budget, people who want a super cheap dSLR to teach their kids on as well as those people who simply don't want all the extra crap. If Canon, Nikon and Olympus where to cram their biggest baddest most raw dog sensor into a metal box with a meter, mirror, shutter speed dial and a lens mount would be as far from blowing an R&D budget to alienate 99% of your customer base, but not blowing an R&D budget and inflating the userbase and streingthening it. It's one line up of digital bodies, it's not like we talking total replacement but a new bottom of the barrel entrylevel line below that which is currently entrylevel.