Coming in late on this one. Canon makes a whack of cash on their full frame DLSR because no one else makes a full frame DLSR currently, and, the type of people that shoot a full frame dlsr (because they can afford it) are willing to pay the bucks for one.
To me, that's simple economics - it's what the market will bear currently and as such they can make that amount of money on the camera. No matter how many people clamour; until someone else (i.e. Pentax or Nikon are probably the closest since Minolta's DLSR was only just released) can release another full frame DLSR, Canon will continue to make the big bucks off of theirs since it's "the only game in town". Cheers Dave > On 13 Mar 2005 at 21:27, John Celio wrote: > >> Do you have any idea how much profit Canon makes on their $8,000 >> 35mm-frame >> digital SLRs? Honestly, I was sworn to secrecy by the Canon rep who >> trained me >> on some of their new products last week, but suffice to say, it's a >> large >> amount. None of the other companies make as much of a margin on >> their pro-end >> cameras. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .
