Your breakdown is probably within the ballpark, but don't forget, the 50mm f/1.8 and 35-80mm zoom were kit lenses for millions of Canon EOS Rebel and other 35mm cameras for several years. The 35mm-80mm zooms are found used everywhere.
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unfocused said:Lots of great responses to a ridiculous post.
I would just add one thing. I was surprised when Canon celebrated their 50 millionth EOS and their 70 millionth lens, because I realized just how few lenses they sell in comparison to cameras. Does anyone have any idea how many of this specific lens Canon sells in a year?
I wouldn't be surprised if Canon barely breaks even on these high-end lenses. Yes, these lenses are expensive, but without knowing the cost that go into the product, claiming that any company is "greedy" is just ignorance.
neuroanatomist said:I know we'll never see those figures from Canon, but if I had to guess, for every 1 EOS camera, the breakdown of the 1.5 lenses would look like this:
- 0.95 EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 (various flavors)
- 0.30 EF-S 55-250mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
- 0.15 EF 50mm f/1.8 II
- 0.05 EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
- 0.0499999999 all other lenses except the supertele primes
- 0.0000000001 supertele primes
You vaguely reference supply and demand, and if anything it's pretty clear that there is a large demand for the 300mm f/2.8 IS series but that is certainly offset by the supply - for the EOS mount you can just about adopt monopoly pricing. There has been at least one other 300mm f/2.8 option for a long while now (the Sigma 120-300mm f/2.8 in its OS and non-OS variants) which is very nearly as good (edit: not sure what I could say in comparison to, not having used it - think I mean in comparison to their 120-300mm).Leopard Lupus said:Comments and posts should be constructive.
I kind of eyeballed it and thought it would come out far too low as well. Thanks for running the numbers To neuro's credit, magnitude changes of decimal place add up faster than one might expect.AdamJ said:Being the obsessive aspie that I am, I applied your estimated fractions to the number of EF lenses actually made and calculated that Canon have made 0.007 supertele primes!