Ok then. Then it's a cheap triplet.
Has to be. To fit everything in that price they are gonna sell this for.
My cheapest 30mm guider (triplet) costs $300 and I don't get CA with that, so it has to be even a cheaper one, I guess.
Any company of all sizes can set certain prices. $300 from said company you purchased from might be a very small and costly to produce or they look at the 'standard prices' set across the board even if it costs way more than what its really worth.
ZWO is one of the bigger companies who most likely can afford bulky orders of good glass or at least I hope.
How much do we think the Seestar really costs? If I had to guess, under $100, maybe under $150.
I believe the Pro series iPhones are in the $300-$500 area and look at all the tech it has built in. Seestar has 64 GB of storage. PC/Laptop storage of some of the fastest storages around at 1TB (M.2 PCIe 4.0) go for $50 atm. 2TB? $100 lol
I think you guys get the idea.
I also feel the niche astro industry has been taken advantage by some of these big companies for a while now. All you have to do is look at the tech out the last 10 or so years versus their product lines with telephone connectors and their old screen. It's a joke really. Some might argue its the labor on getting the glass right, isn't that being done via low labor overseas?
There was a lawsuit on what some believed was a family owned monopoly of some of the biggest names in the business a few years back.
Either way, I hope and feel this will be a slam dunk by ZWO once they get things dialed in and think this is a introduction to the next best robot they build at a higher range. I don't think this is to attract them to start building custom rigs with $5000 ZWO cameras but to entice them to purchase the next best thing (robot). Think of it as smart phones and the 'need' to have it. Easy money if they do this right.
Edited by GTXJackBauer, 07 July 2023 - 11:04 PM.
