Canon's flagship T5i.

Don't believe me?

Read this: (click on the quote for the source)

Darn!...I knew that I should have waited before I bought that 1DX...I coulda' had a T5.

Heya,

Flagship of the Rebel series.

Hardly a misnomer.

Very best,

MalVeauX wrote in post #16683993
Heya,

Flagship of the Rebel series.

Hardly a misnomer.

Very best,

Yep, not sure what the problem is??

That simply means T5i is the best/newest Canon Rebel.

The only thing it is doing is replacing a T3 offering with a T5 offering, but then one could just get the T3i for $50 more with a flip out screen.
Canon manufactures so many 'entry level' DSLR's to consumers. I understand it's own market segmentation, but I don't understand it's economies of scale in producing 5 slightly different crop cameras to the same consumer level at $50-$100 increments. (T3, T3i, T5, T5i, SL1)
The SL1 is the most compact, it was coined a ultra compact DSLR camera.
Ok that specific niche market, I could understand. Smallest camera with EF interchangable lenses.

InfiniteDivide wrote in post #16684813
I understand it's own market segmentation, but I don't understand it's economies of scale in producing 5 slightly different crop cameras to the same consumer level at $50-$100 increments. (T3, T3i, T5, T5i, SL1)

Consumer are very price sensitive. There's people who will pay $399 but not $449. If they made one model, it would have one price. They'd price some people out of the market while missing revenue from people who would have paid more for essentially the same thing. I'm sure their actual cost difference between the various models is basically nill.

InfiniteDivide wrote in post #16684813
The only thing it is doing is replacing a T3 offering with a T5 offering, but then one could just get the T3i for $50 more with a flip out screen.
Canon manufactures so many 'entry level' DSLR's to consumers. I understand it's own market segmentation, but I don't understand it's economies of scale in producing 5 slightly different crop cameras to the same consumer level at $50-$100 increments. (T3, T3i, T5, T5i, SL1)
The SL1 is the most compact, it was coined a ultra compact DSLR camera.
Ok that specific niche market, I could understand. Smallest camera with EF interchangable lenses.

It's called "creeping." You don't jump straight to the latest, newest, greatest. You simply drop bread crumbs, until someone bites. So you give lots of options with very small differences in cost. They creep forward as prices drop on older models. It's essentially the same camera and they cost essentially the same to make. So you squeeze every drop out of them, by creeping regularly forward, but with small jumps in prices so that it entices people to buy new.

mike_d wrote in post #16684821
Consumer are very price sensitive. There's people who will pay $399 but not $449. If they made one model, it would have one price. They'd price some people out of the market while missing revenue from people who would have paid more for essentially the same thing. I'm sure their actual cost difference between the various models is basically nill.

This.

Very best,

Oh, don't get me wrong, I completely understand it from a consumer standpoint. $50 is $50
I am just trying to see how it is more cost effective to manufacture 5 cameras as opposed to three. It seem more effective to give the consumer choices that also encompass similar parts from a manufacturing parts cost standpoint, not the labor costs.
But I suppose if it were not reasonable profitable Canon would have ceased production of their T3 and T3i cameras already.

I guess they know the market. T5, 8, 17, whatever. When does it end?

I quit after the last made-in-Japan model, the T2i. Nothing had really improved much since then other than a couple gadgets here and there (swivel screens, wifi, etc).

The only reason I didn't keep my T2i forever was that it sounded like R2D2 when I pressed the shutter. Very loud.

But really, they need to chill. The Rebel line is moving way too fast, in my opinion, and the price is too high.

When I started look at DSLR cameras a couple years ago, I knew nothing but point and shoot.
Canon had the T3 rebel and T3i rebel with flip out screen. There was a remored T4i to be released in June?
I liked what I read, and never considered a 50D let alone a 5D II I bought a T4i with 0 complaints.
I got a shiny new toy and it was night and day from my p&s 10mp camera, even with the kit lens.
I took it on my first real trip abroad to Japan, and had no idea that 6 months after the trip I would be living here.
I didn't now they would make a new rebel every year, and that some obscure difference would cut last year price in half.
Knowing what I know now, I could have made different choices, but I learned a lot from that camera.

FYI a used T3, T3i, T4i, T5i, 50D, and 60D body here in Japan all sell for $500 US or less, go figure.
They sell the T3 body new for $500 and all the older models get slashed to the same just-under-$500 range, because the 70D body is $1000 new.

I saw this post on FB. Again seems sort of redundant to me after watching the "promo" video that shows it has the same gear as models before it and is around the same price.....

They should have worked on a 7Dii - that would have made them serious money over the "T5" or made the T5 stand out in some special way.....but I had a T2i and what is different with this model besides maybe coming with an 18-55 STM kit lens?

Ugh, they are still going with the T# moniker for the lowest level...which is confusing to people because there is a T5i and now a T5. This is the same problem they created with the T3i and T3. Ugh.

BrickR wrote in post #16684940
Ugh, they are still going with the T# moniker for the lowest level...which is confusing to people because there is a T5i and now a T5. This is the same problem they created with the T3i and T3. Ugh.

Canon model numbers make no real sense, as you said the T3 < T3i and the T5 < T5i but the T5 is their newest camera.
The 5D xxx is not replaced by the 6D, but the 50D < 60D < 70D in secession is replacing one another. Same as the T3i, T4i, T5i. Go figure.