Fujifilm Announces Second US Price Increase in August

Fujifilm will increase prices on most of its US camera lineup starting August 30, marking the second price adjustment this month following retailer-announced increases two weeks earlier. The company cited "volatile market conditions" in its official statement. The recently released X half and X-E5 cameras will maintain their launch prices, while the backordered X100 VI faces price changes. The company characterized the adjustments as a long-term solution to uncertainties including tariffs and manufacturing circumstances.

Who could have seen that coming ?

[madbrain]

Other than every economist.

We are now discovering which companies have the least US inventory.
Others will have to raise prices too, once they sell all US stock.

Come out and say it

[ArchieBunker]

Prices have increased because of Trump.

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[BroccoliKing]

Prices have increased because of Trump.

Trump Tax is real

I question the relevance in this case

[test321]

They updated the price of one camera model, the X100, which seems a high quality but terribly overpriced product for the nostalgic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

Nobody who wants to take pictures today should rationally spend that much on what seems to be the modernized version of a Kodak Instamatic, unless they want to make an artistic statement in using such a camera. I'm fine with Fujifilm producing great cameras for a niche ("hispter") market, but their pricing isn't very relevant to anyone.

Now if Fu

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[ddtmm]

I disagree with pretty much all of what you stated.

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[test321]

I stand corrected! I incorrectly thought they changed the price of one model, while they're updating nearly all of them.

The coffee I buy has shot up about 25%

[rsilvergun]

I've also been looking for a freezer and those have shot up about the same.

Wholesale vegetable prices have shot up 38%. Some of that's tariffs and a lot of it's ice going around yanking people off the street. To get Americans to do that kind of work you would need to compensate them like you do the guys who work on oil rigs because you're basically living out in the middle of nowhere and it's temporary work. And there's no way in how we are going to pay people that much to pick vegetables.

We would u

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[r1348]

So forced labor to compensate for self-imposed tariffs and immigration crackdown, all this because you don't want to tax your billionaires.
Didn't you use to be smart?

The more interesting story

[BitterEpic]

The more interesting storyus how this is effecting American camera manufactures (today are left.) This story one functions as a"I told you so!" for something obvious.

It's too late for Kodak. They already had to stop making digital cameras. Current American camera companies are Red, GoPro, Blackmagic, and Panavision. But does them outsourcing manufacturing mean they have no price advantage?

The primary literal news pushes these kind of defeatest articles. . There are more facets to this discussion than, "thi

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[ddtmm]

A lot of what you say is pretty logical and true. Americans voted this in, so they either need to celebrate this new reality, or vote it out. My guess is that they will continue to take it up the ass. And talk about how good it feels.

Will hit US companes just as hard

[hdyoung]

No product more complicated than toilet paper is completely domestically produced anymore. Nothing. The US companies stockpiled a years worth of inputs when Trump started making noises about tarriffs, but they'll run out of that stuff eventually, will have to replenish from overseas sources (no viable US alternatives for a lot of things) and they will pass the extra cost along to the consumer. Don't let any right-wing commenter convince you otherwise. 6-12 months after all the foreign companies raise their prices by 10-20%, the US companies will do the same, if they haven't already. Mind you, that's an extra 10-20% ABOVE whatever inflation does to prices.

The irony is, after the transient effects get ironed out, the final result will be that the tarriffs are basically a straightforward consumption tax. All of those conservative, ayn randian uber-mensch small-gubbermint types that are willing to burn it all to the ground before they allow taxes to raise a single penny? They're cheering while the orange one enacts "tarriffs" but they're essentially a sloppy 10-20% VAT. Money straight from the consumer's pocket to Uncle Sam.

The next president will probably keep them in place, and it probably doesn't matter whether it's an R or a D. Taxes can definitely be too high (ahem Europe), but the US has the opposite problem, so the the next pres will probably quietly never discuss it and keep pulling in the revenue.

Tarriffs are blamed for contributing to the world wars, but I think that the economy is different nowadays. Everything will adjust and adapt, except that everything will be 10-20% more expensive because of tarriffs *COUGHextrataxesCOUGH*.

Ways to make USA more competitive...

[felixrising]

Tariffs aren’t an industrial strategy, they’re a price hike with extra steps. They dull competitive pressure onshore while offshore wages and standards would have narrowed the cost gap anyway as countries develop and workers and demand higher pay and better (more comparable) working conditions. Build a permanent moat and you delay real cost parity, cut efficiency, and shrink overall activity. If resilience is the goal after COVID, use a scalpel, not a sledgehammer: target truly strategic nodes (chips, critical meds), diversify supply, hold buffers. The US edge is also in services and IP; tariff-first policy taxes those inputs and ignores where USA actually wins. An across the board tariff means higher prices, retaliation, and more capex uncertainty. If your plan to “bring back factories” is “make everything else more expensive,” you’re hiding the bill at checkout, not fixing competitiveness.

Thom Hogan has an article (from a Nikon pov)

[jools33]

Thom Hogan has a good writeup of the challenges posed by Tariffs posted yesterday from a Nikon point of view https://bythom.com/newsviews/t... [bythom.com]

Mexico

[fluffernutter]

I read today that Canada is buying cars directly from Mexico now.