The most over-priced camera equipment

Filters, off-camera flash leads and remote shutter releases.

Also, I'm sure I read somewhere that a replacement carbon fibre lens hood for one of the expensive L series lenses was about £600. That sounded a bit on the expensive side too!

Mike

The Canon extension tube - 12 mm thick ring containing low dispersion air - is possibly the greatest rip-off ever. £50GBP in the UK, or $100 at today's exchange rates!!

Camera bags, lens hoods.

irishman wrote in post #5583291
Without getting too academic, I was thinking alog the lines of stuff we have to buy, like ink.

100% agree!

Canon teleconverters. The 1.4x is $439.99 at Henrys... you can buy an entire telephoto lens for that!

I agree about the flashes and lens hoods though. However you can buy Sigma or used flashes for cheaper, and there are lots of aftermarket hoods on ebay (I bought one, it wasn't very good though).

Ugh.. Half the stuff we buy... how about Storm Jackets? They're pretty darned expensive for the piece of fabric you get

Zansho wrote in post #5583463
Sigma 200-500 2.8 Lens. At 25k or something stupid like that, that's definitely insane. I wouldn't buy it, not when I could get a 100-400 for less than that price and bump up my ISO a bit to compensate.

Yes but you forget the lens is a constant f2.8. I personally would hate to use such cumbersome lens and would rather use a 400 f2.8 and 70-200 f2.8 combination.

ADAPTE wrote in post #5583510
Memory cards and batteries...

Memory cards?!

Marnault wrote in post #5583777
$150 Canon Tripod Ring http://www.bhphotovide​o.com …ripod_Mount_Rin​g_A_2.html

No way these things cost more than $20 to make, 750% markup.

Yeah I was going to say this. I got my f/4 and thought it was a tad heavy, would be nice to get the tripod ring. For that price I'll just live with it.

irishman wrote in post #5582393
In your opinion, what is the most over-priced camera equipment? To me, it has to be on-camera flash. When I got my first digital camera last year, I thought that a flash would be about $100. I was shocked to see that even the basic unit for my XTi, the 430 EX was nearly $300! Compare two 580EX's, around $800, to a good quality studio kit like the one I purchased, an Elinchrom d-Lite 4 kit for about the same price. You get two powerful heads, two light stands, two softboxes, cords, cool cases, all for about the same price as the 580's. Canon HAS to be making a killing off their flashes!

Nothing that can improve the quality of your images a hundred fold is overpriced.

Leicas...

irishman wrote in post #5582393
In your opinion, what is the most over-priced camera equipment? ...............

Anything to do with photography

Well, Im jealous with you guys living in the US. The canon 400 f/2.8 will set you back 6800 USD, but the same lens in Norway costs over 13000 USD!! Now, thats overpriced!

TheHoff wrote in post #5582477
OEM lens hood replacements. $50 for a piece of felted black plastic because the hood from my 24 fell off a bridge; it probably cost under $4 to produce.

+1 definitely the bloody OEM hoods (the black ones)

To the OP: you can get great manual flashes for about 70 bucks (e.g. Sunpak 383), but the Canon and Noink ones do so much that they're worth it.

Other stuff that comes to mind:
- Gary Fong's tupperware and similar products
- Batteries
- OEM lens tripod collars
And much more...

Aren't batteries cheap?

maintaining the photographer..say $100/day by 365 by 70 years.....thats the expense guys!