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

Started Sep 10, 2021 | Polls thread
Kokopelli_Rocks
Kokopelli_Rocks Veteran Member • Posts: 3,661
Re: Are you fed up with the ever increasing cost of Canon gear?

SNJops wrote:

  1. jimbrobb wrote:

One thing is that the price of EF glass is rising too. Making the RF look better value.

When it's not.

I bought an R5 plus RF 100-500 early on, as this suited me best. I think the lens was £2600 and now it retails, if you can find it in stock, for over£3000.

Just can't help but think Canon is puting profits first.

(Also have the EF 400 DO II which is awesome on the R5, solid as a rock with the adapter, could only find a mint used one and a dealer said they won't be making more until December 2021 - I doubt that! Maybe 202?)

I'll accept natural disasters and Covid have made a big difference to the way things should have gone, but that's life I suppose!

The price of the RF 100-500 is absolutely horrendous and I have no idea where Canon got that price from. Currently going for £2979 whereas on emount you can get Tamron’s new 150-500 zoom for £1379. Sure it doesn’t take TCs and is capped at 15fps on the A9/A1 but for a £1600 saving I think many would accept that. If this lens was available on RF mount with the same caveats how many of you would buy it over the Canon option?

Considering Canon can't keep the lens in stock, I am sure the price is based on demand. Should they sell the lens for $1,500 and have 5 year waiting lists?

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