Consider it like donation to help Sony finally fix their sensor plant.
Yeah, I'm sure they're lining up to buy a $3000 point and shoot and the price increase has almost nothing to do with Sony's sensor production woes...
It's clear that ppl love this cam even without 4K, and are willing to pay a huge premium for it.
Camera price rose around $500
https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Cyber-shot-DSC-RX1-Digital-Camera/dp/B016N39J0O/
RX1R II can only record Full HD @ 60p. At these settings the video quality was perfectly usable but unimpressive.
http://petapixel.com/2016/03/11/review-sony-rx1r-ii-excellent-extravagant-overpriced/
While the RX1R II is currently the only Sony camera with the adjustable optical low-pass filter technology, it otherwise shares a similar imaging pipeline to the Sony A7R II, including the same 42.4-megapixel backside-illuminated Exmor R CMOS full-frame image sensor paired with the BIONZ X-branded image processor. Not only is this a massive increase in image resolution from the original 24.3-megapixel RX1, but also provides a much larger range of ISOs than the predecessor.
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/sony-rx1r-ii/sony-rx1r-ii-field-test-part-i.htm
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