LookingThroughMyLens81 said:
I don't know where Canon is headed, except that they are focusing more on Professional-grade products to sell to the Pro market. In the Consumer market, Canon has pretty much been coasting on the Digital Rebel line, which was once ground-breaking, but now old and stagnant. I'm thinking about selling all my Canon gear and buying into another camera brand that is more innovative, higher-performing, and user-friendly, like Pentax, Samsung, or Sony. Canon is just set in their way of thinking and the way they do things hasn't paid off for them lately.
Great, don't talk about it just do it, if another brand will work better for you why should anybody, including Canon, care? Canon are not in the market to make a camera for you, t
hey are in the market to make money for their shareholders, and as far as DSLR manufacturers go they do a pretty good job of it.
Personally I have no problem with Canon focusing on the pro market with $2-3,000 lenses and $3-7,000 bodies, but I well understand if you and many others do. Having said that take a second to look at it from the perspective of Canon, for the second time in a week in just 24 hours Best Digital have sold nearly 200 1DX's at $3,999, that is over $752,000 per sale, how many Rebels do they have to make and sell to get that, 2,000 or more! Compared to the 438 7D MkII's that brought in just $525,000.
And I'd wager that Canon Japan are not getting less ¥ back for those 'discounted' 1DX's than they would if they came via the USA importer and dealer with their inevitable markups, all due to the vagaries of currency fluctuations the purposefully devalued ¥ and the comparatively strong US$.