5DIV price confirmed

[rrcphoto]

It would be 3pm Thursday (26th) in Japan and that seems late in the day for an announcement.

thursday is the 25th.

and that's the way they've always done it from my recollection.

 

[Dave Del Real]

It would be 3pm Thursday (26th) in Japan and that seems late in the day for an announcement.

thursday is the 25th.

and that's the way they've always done it from my recollection.

Right but it would be Friday the 26th in Japan.

 

[nightscape123]

I'm surprised there is no leaked announcement... We usually get it at least a day ahead. Guess canon has really locked up tight for this one.

Well not too much longer now anyway, should be an exciting day tomorrow. I hope we get the MTF's for the lenses too.

 

[PureClassA]

I'm surprised there is no leaked announcement... We usually get it at least a day ahead. Guess canon has really locked up tight for this one.

Well not too much longer now anyway, should be an exciting day tomorrow. I hope we get the MTF's for the lenses too.

Yeah nothing. Except for the entire leaked specs, leaked images, leaked announcement and release dates, and leaked pricing info, we haven't heard jack Sh!t :

 

[PureClassA]

Further, Even if it cost Canon $200 in parts and labor to build a single camera unit, why sell it for $600 if a huge market share is more than willing to happily pay $1500?

This has is separate from your basic point, and you probably don't mean to suggest that "parts and labor" of assembly represent full extent of the cost of making a camera, but some complaints about the price of cameras around here (and elsewhere) remind me of complaints people often used to make about CDs: "Why do I have to pay $15 for a CD when the cost of manufacturing a CD is 30c?" The cost of hiring (say) the Berlin Philharmonic, conductor, soloists, recording venue, recording engineers and editors, etc., never seemed to be considered.

I was just trying to over simplify the per unit actual costs, not the sunk costs of other associated R&D etc.. I was also simply trying to make a point that what it costs a company to make a product is not some unit of standard measure to determine what the profit margin is. If it costs Canon $10 to mass produce each 1DX2 and they can sell them all day long for $6000, it does NOT matter. Someone may think it "Not Fair" or whatever... but as long as they are selling the units they want to sell, they don't really care about anyone's moaning and whining about it, nor should they.

 

[xps]

Received an untrustworthy offer from an retailercompany. It is possible to hold this brand new cam 7 days after starting shipment in my hands. There are "millions" of reservations worldwide. So the body will be sold out for month. See Sony.... The price for this body will be 3900€ :

BTW: DPreview will tell us their opinion about the Mk IV immediatly after the announcement. I am curious how heavy the criticism will be. Which fly in the ointment they will find, despite to less DR. (Yes, its no Sony. I know).

 

[Loswr]

It would be 3pm Thursday (26th) in Japan and that seems late in the day for an announcement.

thursday is the 25th.

and that's the way they've always done it from my recollection.

Right but it would be Friday the 26th in Japan.

Sorry, but you seem temporally challenged.

Thu 8/25 12:00a San Francisco (that's midnight, in case you didn't know)
Thu 8/25 03:00a Boston
Thu 8/25 09:00a Amsterdam
Thu 8/25 04:00p Tokyo

BTW, there's this thing called the Internet where you can look all this stuff up!

 

[rrcphoto]

It would be 3pm Thursday (26th) in Japan and that seems late in the day for an announcement.

thursday is the 25th.

and that's the way they've always done it from my recollection.

Right but it would be Friday the 26th in Japan.

good grief.

August 25, 8am netherlands is August 25, 3pm Japan time.

 

[jayphotoworks]

Looks like I won't be in line for one at launch, so I guess that's one less person to fight for the pre-orders. I'll wait until Photokina is completely done before deciding which bits of my kit to upgrade this year or next. I usually never jump the gun on a Photokina cycle year and I recommend others do the same!

 

[rrcphoto]

I'm surprised there is no leaked announcement... We usually get it at least a day ahead. Guess canon has really locked up tight for this one.

Well not too much longer now anyway, should be an exciting day tomorrow. I hope we get the MTF's for the lenses too.

I'm pretty sure we usually see it hours in advance not day(s).

 

[scyrene]

That's interesting. Six years is it?? I don't expect a laptop to last that long.

Depends on the laptop. My 17" MacBook Pro is from 2011, so it's getting close...and performance is still more than good enough to meet my needs (with the switch from a 500 GB HDD to a 1 TB SSD). Actually, my previous 17" MacBook Pro is from 2006, and it still works just fine, and my kids use it when they need something bigger than an iPad (although in fairness, the 100 GB HDD did fail at one point...and now you know what happened to the 500 GB HDD that I pulled from the 2011 MBP ).

Point taken I tend to batter mine. I use them for several hours every day, and they get a bit knocked about. Actually my first one still worked after six years, but it didn't have the capabilties I needed by then. And I've upgraded the internal bits of MacBooks, that can lengthen their lives. I suppose what I mean is, I expect them to fall behind in processing power until I get a new one, maybe after 3-4 years. For instance, getting the 5Ds, suddenly this one is struggling a bit, and I'll probably get something newer before it properly dies...

 

[nightscape123]

I'm surprised there is no leaked announcement... We usually get it at least a day ahead. Guess canon has really locked up tight for this one.

Well not too much longer now anyway, should be an exciting day tomorrow. I hope we get the MTF's for the lenses too.

Yeah nothing. Except for the entire leaked specs, leaked images, leaked announcement and release dates, and leaked pricing info, we haven't heard jack Sh!t :

Those are less leaked and more controlled releases imo. Slowly released over a few days, spread apart, high quality release photos not cell phone snaps. Those "leaks" are just hype generation done by canon. Usually right around now the news release will actually leak since they have to give it to news stations before hand generally. Though I guess there is still time for that to happen. But at <24 hours it really doesn't matter a whole lot.

 

[Dave Del Real]

It would be 3pm Thursday (26th) in Japan and that seems late in the day for an announcement.

thursday is the 25th.

and that's the way they've always done it from my recollection.

Right but it would be Friday the 26th in Japan.

good grief.

August 25, 8am netherlands is August 25, 3pm Japan time.

Oops. My bad people, my bad. I guess I just got lost in the excitement. Forgive my lapse.

 

[Dave Del Real]

It would be 3pm Thursday (26th) in Japan and that seems late in the day for an announcement.

thursday is the 25th.

and that's the way they've always done it from my recollection.

Right but it would be Friday the 26th in Japan.

Sorry, but you seem temporally challenged.

Thu 8/25 12:00a San Francisco (that's midnight, in case you didn't know)
Thu 8/25 03:00a Boston
Thu 8/25 09:00a Amsterdam
Thu 8/25 04:00p Tokyo

BTW, there's this thing called the Internet where you can look all this stuff up!

Yep, see apology above.

 

[johnhenry]

So for paying an extra $1.4 K, I get a camera with 4K video but lower resolution than a 5 DSr.

Somehow I think the 5D IV is a bit outdated even before coming out. Like they are trying to keep people from jumping brands while they slowly milk money out of us for buggy/poor featured cameras, so we can plunk down another 3K every 3 years.

No thanks, Canon.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Not sure if this surfaced prior but at today's CAD exchange the US price is high by a couple hundred bucks so maybe some cross border shopping will yield bargains. Happy to see our price isn't too bad.

Jack

 

[smorgo]

You assume wrong. It already was bad enough to pay in euros the same amount as in USD but now this?! 3500 USD equals to 3100 euros and we'll have to pay 3700 euros?! I'm pissed as hell!

Oh good grief, how many times?

US prices are quoted excluding sales tax, which varies from state-to-state.

EU prices include VAT, which is around 19-20%. 3100 EUR + VAT is (roughly) 3700 EUR.

 

[rrcphoto]

So for paying an extra $1.4 K, I get a camera with 4K video but lower resolution than a 5 DSr.

Somehow I think the 5D IV is a bit outdated even before coming out. Like they are trying to keep people from jumping brands while they slowly milk money out of us for buggy/poor featured cameras, so we can plunk down another 3K every 3 years.

No thanks, Canon.

well, bhphotovideo is selling the 5ds at actually more than the 5D Mark IV will come out at. (200 usd)

same with henry's in canada... 400 CAD more for the 5Ds.

the 5ds in europe is 3300 versus 3700 for the 5D IV (the biggest discrepancy)

not sure where 1.4K is coming from?

where are you?

keep in mind the "confirmed" price right now only seems to be US and Canada. the Euro price was from another rumor.

 

[Loswr]

So for paying an extra $1.4 K, I get a camera with 4K video but lower resolution than a 5 DSr.

Somehow I think the 5D IV is a bit outdated even before coming out. Like they are trying to keep people from jumping brands while they slowly milk money out of us for buggy/poor featured cameras, so we can plunk down another 3K every 3 years.

No thanks, Canon.

well, bhphotovideo is selling the 5ds at actually more than the 5D Mark IV will come out at. (200 usd)

same with henry's in canada... 400 CAD more for the 5Ds.

the 5ds in europe is 3300 versus 3700 for the 5D IV (the biggest discrepancy)

not sure where 1.4K is coming from?

where are you?

I assume $1.4 K more relative to the 5DIII.

 

[rrcphoto]

So for paying an extra $1.4 K, I get a camera with 4K video but lower resolution than a 5 DSr.

Somehow I think the 5D IV is a bit outdated even before coming out. Like they are trying to keep people from jumping brands while they slowly milk money out of us for buggy/poor featured cameras, so we can plunk down another 3K every 3 years.

No thanks, Canon.

well, bhphotovideo is selling the 5ds at actually more than the 5D Mark IV will come out at. (200 usd)

same with henry's in canada... 400 CAD more for the 5Ds.

the 5ds in europe is 3300 versus 3700 for the 5D IV (the biggest discrepancy)

not sure where 1.4K is coming from?

where are you?

I assume $1.4 K more relative to the 5DIII.

oh maybe.

so one of "those" that compare EOL pricing versus MSRP announcement pricing...