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Re: 200-400 f4 by end of 2012?.. maybe | |
Pixel Perfect wrote:
PetKal wrote:
How much faith can we place in Canon\'s commercial release of 200-400L taking place in 2013 ?
Not much, I think, if we go by their past record. The reason is in their apparent difficulty to satisfy a relatively very modest demand for 500/600 II lenses today, and probably till year end, and perhaps even into 2013.
Canon\'s run out of excuses for the delays, although if they wait long enough there\'ll probably be another natural disaster, to make the already farcical situation even worse.
Well, yes, their MkI-to-MkII supertelephoto lens transition has been poorly executed in the extreme. To add salt to injury, the MkII lens price doubling (roughly) has probably curtailed the old supertele market in half.
I think the tsunami catastrophe is a major contributing factor, but there ought to be more than that in the causes of such sad level of performance.
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