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Are you fed up with the ever increasing cost of Canon gear?

Started Sep 10, 2021 | Polls thread
Rock and Rollei Senior Member • Posts: 2,899
Re: Are you fed up with the ever increasing cost of Canon gear?
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Canon - and other manufacturers - had long considered phot equipment costs to be unsustainably cheap even with sales levels where they were at the peak of the EF mount a few years ago. Very hard to  make significant price adjustments on existing systems, but they've taken advantage with a new mount. Thing is that they have left a level of accessibility in there with the RP, 35, 50 and 85mm non-L lenses, the 24-105 STM, and particularly the 600mm and 800mm f11 lenses, astonishingly cheap for their focal lengths. So the pro kit is selling for more like what they think it should sell at - similar real-world prices as to where FD L lenses were selling 30 years ago - and there are still cheaper options. The forthcoming 16mm looks like an absolute bargain.

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