Anyone still buying gears in this economic crisis?

Canon's price increase is going to hurt their business instead of helping them. The sooner they figure this out, the better.

We the users can live by our existing camera gears, their balance sheet can't.

just bought a xti a grip and a lens my family owns a bussiness and its pciknig up slowly so i am not afraid i think the worst is over

masayako wrote in post #7291546
Canon's price increase is going to hurt their business instead of helping them. The sooner they figure this out, the better.

We the users can live by our existing camera gears, their balance sheet can't.

And if they don't adjust prices to compensate for currency fluctuations, which Canon "gears" will you buy if they go away completely because they ceased to be profitable?

masayako wrote in post #7262896
Anyone still buying gears in this economic crisis?

I pretty much stop buying anything already. Just in case the economy get any worse, I need food, more than gears, on the table.

Food is highly overrated.

SuzyView wrote in post #7264259
I just bought a 5DII. It's about all I'll buy this year. I'm completely poor now.

Sorry to hear that. Come on over for dinner. I'll feed and clothe you.

eyelookok2blindgurls wrote in post #7264580
Maybe gears like those little ones that Keep falling out of Nikon's

Uh, one quick glance at a recent article on www.luminous-landscape.com, an article that was also written last year detailing another trip to South America and Antarctica, will show that Canons failed at many times the rate of Nikons. Yes, even though there were many more Canon shooters.
Besides, my Nikon ain't got no gears. Only film cameras do.

skygod44 wrote in post #7264606
Nope.

No purchases planned until after the 1D4 has been available for about 12 months.

Then, let the good times role!

1D4 plus 70-200 f/2.8 plus 16-35 f/2.8 plus 500 f/4 plus a divorce....
Only kidding!

Hey, know why divorce is so expensive? Cause it's worth it.

SoaringUSAEagle wrote in post #7289874
Yes I am... not much is going to stop me if I got the $$

Whoa, pardna, you got a baby coming. Better start saving for college. By the time your little tyke is ready to go, it'll only be a hundred grand a year. Besides, I'm a bit tired of trying to keep up with you in the gear's' department.


And why people makin fun of da OP's use of English? It's apparent, at least to me, he's not a native English speaker. Another person does that, I'll kick their gas.

me

No camera gear ,but a macbook pro with about $2000 in software.