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 Re: Canon R5 II | |
VailJohnson wrote:
gdanmitchell wrote:
VailJohnson wrote:
It’ll be between $3,499 and $3,899 but not more. If it’s exactly the same even adjusted for inflation which will be about 2.5% it won’t go over $4,000.
Not sure why we should expect that Canon will introduce a new, upgraded version of a popular, successful camera at the same or lower list price than when the original was introduced roughly five years earlier. (R5 list price is $3899.99.)
Depending if you buy grey market or not. But it won’t be more than $4,000.
The R6 came out 2020: MSRP: $2,499
The R6 II came out 2022: MSRP: $2,499
The R7 came out 2022: MSRP: $1,499
The R8 came out 2023: MSRP: $1,499
So yes. I don’t believe the R5 II will be more than $3,899
The orginal claim was the range would be between $500 LESS than the original
It is possible that an update could be released at the same price (esp when the time interval between releases is short), though one prior example of that happening does not denote a trend. (Note also that comparing two different cameras —R7 and R8 — this way doesn't make sense, especially when Canon uses the higher number to denote a camera lower in their lineup. So your second example actually contradicts the price claim in the post I replied to.)
I have not looked, but I'd be willing to bet that if you looked at the entirely of the Canon (and other manufacturer's) line-up and tracked costs across the evolution of particular cameras that there are few (almost none? none?) where the cost of the new model is lower.
I don't know what gray market prices would have to do with this. They are notoriously variable and hard to compare... and they would also be available, we assume, on a new R5II.
We can compare list prices since those are essentially fixed reference points. While it is true that once a camera reaches the market there will be various bundles and other discounts, those are always relative to that initial list price.
I can't rule out the price being the same for the R5II —in fact, that was the lower end of what I said was possible — but it is virtually impossible that it will be lower than that of the R5.
Time will tell.
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Canon here, they still have that cripple hammer...
Is anyone else around tired of that "cripple hammer" terminology? :-(
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