We have never given out the exact cost difference but that is the reason.
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I checked the Home Depot website, and my local store has 58 black cameras in stock. The one across town has 45 in stock, and the store in the next city has 85. Iâm not sure how many each store received, but there are about 2,000 Home Depot stores across the US. If each store only received 50 on average, (which seems low based on my limited data) youâre looking at a manufacturing run of 100,000.
If those quantities are consistent across stores, it seems like the run might have been more like 200,000 or more. Not sure how quickly theyâd go through that, but it seems like you should be able to get your hands on one if you want it. 
My understanding was that itâs simply more expensive to offer two different models in general. (It requires a separate manufacturing run, separate packaging, etc.) Itâs not necessarily that black is inherently more expensive to produce, right?
Itâs those and also the black IS inherently a bit more expensive.
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Ah, interesting. Wouldnât have guessed that.