they completely re-engineered them and offered to upgrade all earlier models to the new standard,
essentially for free, and sell them for 1/2 the price of a Canon. Most photographers I talk to dismiss them
as crap, it's not fare but that's the way it is. So Canon ignores them.
Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 14.03.05 15:04:
Canon makes a whack of cash on their full frame DLSR because no one else
makes a full frame DLSR currently, and, the type of people that shoot a
full frame dlsr (because they can afford it) are willing to pay the bucks
for one.
What about two Kodaks DCS-14 N and C (with Nikon and Canon mount respectively)? They are FF and are not produced by Canon as one might guess ;-)
To me, that's simple economics - it's what the market will bear currently and as such they can make that amount of money on the camera.
No matter how many people clamour; until someone else (i.e. Pentax or Nikon
are probably the closest since Minolta's DLSR was only just released) can
release another full frame DLSR, Canon will continue to make the big bucks
off of theirs since it's "the only game in town".
Not the only. See above. I think the problem with FF is that it is inteneded for professionals only. As such it is produced in small quantities and that won't help in FF's price drop anytime soon. Seeing rising popularity of APS-C size sensor based DSLRs it is almost clear that this smaller factor will be the most popular - just as 35 mm film became before II WW... FF will be more affordable but still a niche product. It will be rather like every film format bigger than 35 mm became - affordable, especially second hand, but not popular and much more expensive than its smaller cousin.
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