Whilst I understand your idea it unfortunately doesn't give Canon a good forecast about the real demand... effectively, potential buyers are attempting to stockpile by buying as much as possible which is what the component buyers are doing.
My concern is that when Canon have sufficient stock/capacity to sell then the demand will dry up by cancelled orders causing excess pre-sales inventory. You might say that is a good thing for consumers as there will be sales discounts to move the excess stock but we do want Canon to be reasonably profitable in the long term to maintain/increase their R&D budget.
These should also be available used in greater numbers when the 14-35mm lenses start to ship. I know I'll be trading my 15-35 for a 14-35 as soon as possible.I'm hoping that the 15-35/2.8 not being on the list is a good sign (for me).
I wouldn't consider myself a fanboy. I use Canon because it fits what I want from photography. I have no issues with Sony, Nikon etc having competitive products.Sounds like you are more worried about Canon than yourselves. Is that your fanboy-ism at it's peak or jealousy that you paid the full price and no one else should get at a better price? Corporations know how to milk their customers. Canon is yet another corporate milking customers very well for years, So you please do not worry about them.
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It's not just chip shortages, it's the ticks(scalpers) who are further complicating the situation. Pretty sure like camera bodies you will see these lenses on ebay at higher prices and readily available compared to retail stores where they are going to be on backorder.The Chip shortage man... everywhere one turns things are hard to come by.
No Canon and every retailer have a pretty good idea of the mentality of the average US pre order douches.Whilst I understand your idea it unfortunately doesn't give Canon a good forecast about the real demand... effectively, potential buyers are attempting to stockpile by buying as much as possible which is what the component buyers are doing.
My concern is that when Canon have sufficient stock/capacity to sell then the demand will dry up by cancelled orders causing excess pre-sales inventory. You might say that is a good thing for consumers as there will be sales discounts to move the excess stock but we do want Canon to be reasonably profitable in the long term to maintain/increase their R&D budget.
...I don’t see much motivation to create a semiconductor manufacturer in the States - especially with $15/hr minimum wage on its way in…that would drive electronic costs through the roof...
There also might be some people who want the control ring. For them, the only choice would be the EF lens with an adapter.OTOH, there are some (I’m not one of them) who shoot landscapes with great whites, and for them the drop-in vari-ND adapter may be a benefit. It certainly will be for my TS-E 17 and 11-24, when I start traveling again.
The crazy thing about the adapters are that here in the U.S. they are hard to come by new, but every few weeks Canon sells a bunch of them as "refurbished" on their website.I had the impression that the EOS R mount adaptor was also hard to source which was unusual as there shouldn't be many (if at all) chips in it.
No, it runs much deeper than that, truck driver shortages in the USA, container shortages in China and the Far East, global trade is utterly messed up because Companies cancelled orders and laid off staff in anticipation of a slow recovery.It's not just chip shortages, it's the ticks(scalpers) who are further complicating the situation. Pretty sure like camera bodies you will these lenses on ebay at higher prices and readily available compared to retail stores where they are going to be on backorder.
Sounds like you are more worried about Canon than yourselves. Is that your fanboy-ism at it's peak or jealousy that you paid the full price and no one else should get at a better price? Corporations know how to milk their customers. Canon is yet another corporate milking customers very well for years, So you please do not worry about them.
Indeed. I saw some financial article somewhere that laid out the rise in price of a McDonalds if everybody was paid a wage they could actually live on, it was something like a 4c rise in the price of a burger. Meanwhile Walmart’s, the largest corporation in the USA, pays it’s workers so poorly they are the largest benefactors of supplementary government benefits in the world. Yes, Walmart has it’s employees pay subsidized by every USA tax payer.I seriously doubt that a $15 minimum wage would add significantly to the cost. I'd happily pay the extra cost to know that the components aren't being made in some Uyghur slave labor camp.
FWIW, the control ring EF-RF adapter (new) is in stock on Canon USA’s site right now.The crazy thing about the adapters are that here in the U.S. they are hard to come by new, but every few weeks Canon sells a bunch of them as "refurbished" on their website.