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

Nimonus wrote:

tkbslc 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 years,

that’s probably the least logical argument I have ever heard. Are you actually trying to imply that lenses from 200 years ago are same as they are today? Or that new lenses have to alter optical laws? Or what is your point?

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.

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?

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.

Now the camera industries are trapped in the death loop.

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

Razer sharp and awesome contrast photo taken around 1920

Really? What happened to the eyelashes? Was this taken on 5" x 4" or 10" x 8"? The contrast will have been controlled in the darkroom by the choice of paper and by dodging and burning.

You have to educate yourself, each lens follows the theories ruled by physics.

Theories are attempts to understand the workings of the universe and are used to design lenses. Lenses are inanimate objects that don't follow anything.

The improvements of general camera lens are as far less than advertised and you imagined.

Sez you. Have you ever compared, say, an original Sonnar (first patented in 1929), or even the Soviet version still made in the 1970s, with a cooking 50mm f/1.8 of the early 1980s, or a 1970s zoom lens with a current one? Canon's 1979 standard zoom was an inexpensive (by the standards of the time) manual focus 35-70mm f/4 lens for roughly the current price of an EF 24-70mm f/4 IS L lens in real terms. Are you really telling us there hasn't been any progress and that prices are too high?

Any extra money paid on new lens, are the money you paid for piano painting on speakers. Nothing to do with functioning, just for fun and extra charge only.