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

Started Sep 10, 2021 | Polls thread
Sittatunga Veteran Member • Posts: 5,406
Re: It is the same old same old with everybody

MikeJ9116 wrote:

Everybody Canon has always milked buyers for as much as they can for their medium to upper tier products. What they are doing now isn't new to them. A lot of people complain about the high prices and then give them their money for overpriced gear. It is a cycle that has gone on for the past 100-150 years.

I'm not completely convinced.  The 80/20 rule says you get 80% of the result for 20% of the effort, hence the good value of the medium to lower tier products.  It's the final 20% that represents 80% of the cost and effort.

Pentacon tried something better but I would have hated living in the DDR.  So did the USSR, but with very little incentive for quality assurance or stock control or improvements.  A functioning market might have either changed that or killed the industry.

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