tax on videocams with more than 29min 59sec recording time?

[D.Sim]

Well, they don't include this tax in the produc price because they're keeping it under the limit so that theres NO need to pay the tax in the first place. If they allowed 1 second more though, you'd be paying what ~175 more on a ~3500 camera? Not a lot, true, but imagine all the whinging stills only shooters will have going on if that was there....

I wonder...do they sell more cameras in Europe or the US and the rest of the world? If less in Europe, why base the policy on the lowest common denominator?

At the very least...why don't they make it 'trivial' to bypass this artificial governor on recording time for video?

Because then the moment you step into Europe, you're going to get taxed. Also: How many dSLR shooters are seriously going to be shooting for >30 mins? Even those cinematographers keep it way under that time limit, same goes for wedding shooters. If you're shooting something continuous that you need more than that time, you're going to be looking for a dedicated video camera

 

[CanineCandidsByL]

I guess this raises the obvious question, why not two versions of the camera? Identical versions except with and withou >30 min recording and with the EU tax collected. However I prefer the "firing" of legislator until this gets fixed.

 

[cayenne]

I guess this raises the obvious question, why not two versions of the camera? Identical versions except with and withou >30 min recording and with the EU tax collected. However I prefer the "firing" of legislator until this gets fixed.

Or at the very least....maybe have Canon make it trivial to defeat the artificial limit..that way, they don't get taxed...since they meet the letter of the law...but with a simple switch....turn it off.

 

[Terry Rogers]

These types of taxes make my blood boil. We have a similar tax on blank media (CD's) in Canada because they can be used to copy pirated music. It distributes the cost of lost revenue from the record companies to everyone who uses CD's... what???!!!??? By that logic, I am paying for music I have not purchased when I buy blank CD's, and thus the tax is in fact stealing from me!!!! To me, a logical conclusion would be to pirate and download all you can and all you want as you are paying for it whether you do it or not.