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[quote name='richg101' timestamp='1343087462' post='14376'] Cheers for the kind words. I think at the moment it is not visibly possible to get the price lower than this. It is simply not an item with enough of a mass market potential to warrant overseas manufacture and thus the high price reflects this. Though the price is high, I am very surprised at the lack of interest in pre orders amongst the online community. I am literally breaking my back to get the units ready. The sheer amount of technicalities involved are overwhelming. At the moment 8 units have been pre ordered. But only one to an enthusiastic film maker from the online community. The rest are going to a production hire company to hire with 5n's, PL adaptors etc to use alongside fs-100's and F3's! They will probably earn the hire company 10 fold what they are buying these off me for. Seems a bit sad that the price seems to have made it inaccessible to most of the guys I hoped it would attract, and that all my hard work is not going to benefit many of the guys I'd hoped it would have done. If only all these guys messing with the horrible 600D, 7D etc, with £1000's of pounds worth of rigs, brackets etc were using 5N's instead:) All I know is that after all this work, I and one other lucky guy will have a full 'production' model to use themselves - for their own projects, and that the rig is also going to be put through its paces by a fair few small productions here in the UK, and hopefully further afield. Cant wait to see them with a £££££ PL mount cine lens hanging off the front! [/quote] I work as a vfx artist at a large effects house. A few of my coworkers here have a Nex and go out and shoot on a regular basis. I showed your housing to them and they expressed interest in it... until they saw the price. If it was around $400~$500, I'm sure a lot more people would bite. Myself included. That being said, perhaps you could look into having a small run of units made overseas(China). I'm sure you could find a outfit that could make these for you at a reasonable cost.