Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/18

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Subject: [Leica] Canon D20 price drop
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas M. Sharp)
Date: Tue Jan 18 10:08:49 2005
References: <016e01c4fd72$f53ed010$6401a8c0@ccapr.com> <2F8D6445-6975-11D9-8B61-000A95DD7D76@charter.net>

They dropped the price of the Digital Rebel (300D) by a similar amount about 
4 
months after it was introduced. As if it wasn't selling enough already, at 
the 
time of the Photokina last year they (Canons figures) had, reputedly, 
already 
sold more than 500000 of them worldwide.
Douglas

Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:
> I wonder if they're changing the chip size?
> S. Dimitrov
> 
> On Jan 18, 2005, at 7:32 AM, B. D. Colen wrote:
> 
>> Could be that or it could simply be a marketing decision on Canon's part
>> - They may figure that dropping the price $100 will get the D20 down
>> into real prosumer territory, vastly increase the market for the camera,
>> and draw more buyers to the Canon pro lens line. To say nothing of
>> making the D20 even more competitive against the N7.
>>
>> B. D.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>> Slobodan Dimitrov
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 10:22 AM
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: [Leica] Canon D20 price drop
>>
>>
>> The D20 dropped $100 at B&H Photo.
>> Is this a sign that another canon digital is due shortly? Anyone hear
>> anything from the rumor mill? S. Dimitrov
>>
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In reply to: Message from bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] Canon D20 price drop)
Message from s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov) ([Leica] Canon D20 price drop)