Re: More like Canon getting desperate?
Lawrencew wrote:
justmeMN wrote:
Lawrencew wrote:
But never do they start lowering the price before availability...
On the day that the Canon USA Store released the M3, Canon offered a $100 discount.
On the day that the Canon USA store released the M10, Canon offered a $100 discount.
Canon USA handled both models the same way.
Canon reduced the price of the M10 in the US before it was available.
They did not AFAIK reduce the price of the M3 before it was available - because of course it was widely available around the world already
could honestly just be exchange issues, and/or bad announcement data where they set the price, then evaluated it later and went.. hmm that's a little high.
who knows. i doubt it was "sales fire-saling" related though because it happened prior to any sales ocurring.
one thing I am curious about is that how long is Canon USA in the hunt for this? was it passed down from Japan? thou shalt sell it dammit.. because it really does look like it's not selling at all in USA (surprise surprise).
since they've already dumped it once.. it's hard to think that they won't dump it again.
All i know is that canon has to get it's A game going. its falling behind in so many areas. P&S's, MILC's and even really higher end cameras.
we're not just talking the stupid DR that only a dpreviewer seems to harp on.. shot to shot speed in mirrorless, AF speed in mirrorless, video, AEB / bracketting performance, fps in general really on mirrorless and P&S.
they do alot of things right, but they are certainly losing the spec war left right and center.
Whatever you think of Canon's mirrorless (and I'm still getting great results from my M), there's no way they're "falling behind" with higher end cameras. The 7DII is simply the best sports and wildlife APS-C, if not the best sports and wildlife overall, and quite possibly the best APS-C camera on the market today (I certainly can't see a better one). And the 5DS and 5DS R are the best landscape cameras, short of moving to medium format. The 1D X only has one competitor in the high end full frame sports market, is at least as good as, and probably better than its Nikon equivalent, and is soon to be upgraded. We shouldn't let our frustration with the pace of Canon's MILC development blind us to the fact, and it is a fact, that their DSLRs are class-leading, except in the frankly overblown aspect of a little more DR at low ISO.
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