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

Nimonus wrote:

Sittatunga wrote:

Nimonus wrote:

I was told to shut up and my post was deleted when I talked about overpriced RF lens.

I want to say again, there have no new optical theory had been invented in last 200 year

The people who worked out the Scheimpflug Principle died about 100 years ago, so that statement is definitely exaggerated.

, and RF lens is downgrade of EF lens, such as external zoom, NANO USM, plastic frame, no more fluorite glass (except a few). RF lens should be (great) cheaper than its EF opponents.

EF lenses seldom used fluorite, often had plastic construction, even bayonets, and many used worse motors than Nano USM.

Mirrorless camera had been overpriced by a bad role model, the Walkman manufacturer. They were at the stage of bankruptcy decade ago and a lot of cash were needed to survive when the imaging business were their last ring buoy.

How can they sold a camera at bloody higher price after removed a pricey parts (mirror box) away from the camera and only the cheap PCB left?

A decent EVF is pricy. Compare the price of the accessory EVF for the EOS M6 with the price of the EOS SL3 body only, which include the mirror box, shutter, sensor, battery processors and ask yourself what proportion of the SL3's price is due to the flipping mirror.

What I talk is simply true facts and will benefit we users if manufacturer reviews their pricing policy after put it in consideration of all the facts.

I'm sure all the manufacturers review their pricing policy monthly if not weekly.

Now the camera industries are trapped in the death loop.

Shrinking market -> less mass production -> higher price -> less orders -> Shrinking market

So what are you trying to say?

I'm saying that, historically, cameras have generally been much more expensive than they are now. My first wide-angle lens was an FD 28mm f/2.8 that cost me nearly a month's pay, but was still 25% cheaper than the equivalent Nikkor. It was a reasonably good lens at the time, well made and solid, but poor performance by today's standards. It was still better and relatively cheaper than what has been available ten years earlier even though I had to pay more pounds notes than I would have ten years before.

I'm also saying that getting upset and saying things that are obviously wildly exaggerated undermines any argument you try to make.

You prefer it's expensive even if it's overpriced?

I want to pay a reasonable price for a good product as I can't afford cheap and nasty. I'm not going to buy anything that's overpriced.  If it's really overpriced, there will be something else that will do the job just as well for less money.  There is the possibility that, if everything you see is overpriced, the problem might be your perception.

Are you presenting someone or we users?

You what?