Canon's Recent Refurb Sale Observation

[wsmith96]

The point was that marketing has a big impact, people are presumably snapping up the items because they are on sale without ever checking to find that its not the bargain they thought, and costs the same or more than new. My Amex card doubles the warranty of a item bought new, but not used or refurbished items, so a 2 year warranty for less makes sense to me.

Thanks for the input everyone! I ended up getting a new 6D - there is currently a special where Canon is offering a year of damage protection free with purchase of a new camera, and that tipped the balance for me.

Awesome! Hope you enjoy your new camera. Post some pics when you get a chance.

 

[rrcphoto]

I don't think Sigma, Tamron, or even Nikon lens releases affect Canon lens releases at all. I don't think Canon holds back lenses just waiting for other companies to release a lens. Each company has its own schedule.

In other words: Canon doesn't say, "Oh crap, Sigma is releasing thus and such. We'd better get something out there to counter it quick."

I just don't think it happens. Lens formulas take years of development and testing. Canon isn't going to rush a new lens to market, and has no reason to do so.

That sure would be a whole lot of lens releases in the next seven months wouldn't it? Pretty exciting for some people if you are right.

this is just it.

people think that canon can create a lens in a year in their mom's basement.

the last anyone mentioned any sort of thing with a timeline it was in regards to nikon where they take around seven years from start to finish for lens development.

Nikon, also has the ability to create more lenses per year than canon - so I doubt canon is any shorter.

Essentially as soon as the lens is released, fairly shortly afterwards, the next version is started. Sobering information isn't it?

 

[wsmith96]

I found that the lens selections Canon put on sale on their refurb site are very similar to the rumors we are hearing about.

Here's what they have on sale:

70-300 IS USM
24-105 IS USM
50 1.4 USM
85 1.8 USM
17-40 USM

We've been talking about an updated FF non L zoom, a lens update that might be surprising (24-105), a new 50mm on the horizon, Sigma's coming out with a new 85, and the 17-40 is a gimme since the 16-35 F/4 came out.

I'm thinking that these are your lens updates that we are going to see for the remainder of the year (other than the 17-40). But I may be smoking something too....

From CR's new post, looks like the 24-105 was the surprise lens Now, c'mon 50mm!