Jac, so essentially what you are saying is that its the design and tooling up that is expensive, and after that cranking out additional copies is relatedly cheap. This is, in essence, what I keep thinking. Having a shop make the front assembly for an Ikeda Anba would be very expensive, but having them make 100 might be relatedly cheap. That's why I think if we can settle on a standard design economies of scale could make a parts kit affordable. Then, with a standard set of parts available it would be possible to make any number of modifications to the original design, and if an alternative design became popular then the small number of additional parts required could be made in the same way. Eventually we would have a small catalog of camera parts, and demand sufficient to make it economical for suppliers to provide them.
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