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Canon Increases EOS 300D Production
Canon’s “EOS Digital Rebel/EOS Kiss/EOS 300D” digital SLR has sold so well that Canon have recently raised production by 25%, according to a report on Yahoo! News via Reuters:
“Ando said Canon had completed plans to boost monthly production capacity of the “EOS Kiss” by about 25 percent to 100,000 cameras in the first quarter of this year. Half of that capacity is housed in a Taiwan plant and the other half in Japan.
Canon sold 600,000 digital SLRs in 2003, capturing 70 percent of the rapidly growing market and leaving Nikon Corp (7731.T), which did not have a camera anywhere near the “EOS Kiss” model’s price range, in second place with 30 percent.”
Even more interestingly, Canon spokesman Tadaaki Ando, deputy group executive in charge of digital SLRs, strongly hinted that an even cheaper DSLR will be released in about a year’s time:
“Canon’s Ando said a lower-priced digital SLR could be about one year away.
“If it’s not this autumn, then that would probably mean next spring,” Ando said, noting the release would then be one-and-a-half years after the original “EOS Kiss.” “Development times are so much faster than they were in the film age.”
Website: Yahoo! News - “Canon Raises Output of Fast-Selling Kiss Digicam”
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#1 Farhat
I think the cheaper DSLR being hinted at would be called EOS 3000D, just as there is a cheaper version of the analog EOS 300V called 3000V! Unfortunately, however, there is no reliable information as yet on whether a newer version of the 10D might be introduced. I had wanted to buy a 10D at the end of this year, but it might be wise to wait a few more months.
11:42 am - Tuesday, March 16, 2004
#2 Mark Goldstein
That naming convention would certainly make sense, as it follows the film SLR names, although I'm not sure what the US and Japanese names will be (how do you follow Digital Rebel and Digial Kiss!!??).
There's a bit of a shortage of the current 10D, so you may have to wait until the new version comes out, whether you want to or not!
3:50 pm - Tuesday, March 16, 2004
#3 Farhat
Mark,
the shortage of 10D you mention is interesting. This may also lend credibility to the rumor mentioned here:
http://normankoren.com/EOS-10D.html
according to which "...Canon will stop taking orders for the 10D from dealers at the end of March-- that a replacement is on the way."
4:12 pm - Tuesday, March 16, 2004
#4 Mark Goldstein
Interesting - I'd not seen that rumour before.
My info is just from seeing loads of forum postings complaining about not being able to get hold of the 10D
4:40 pm - Tuesday, March 16, 2004
#5 John
The shop I work at seems to get about two to three 10Ds per month, at the very most. We are actually avoiding taking special orders for them as much as possible, since they're so hard to get. I don't know what the hell Canon was thinking when they started making so few of them.
3:18 am - Wednesday, March 17, 2004
#6 Mark Goldstein
With the power of hindsight, I'm glad I bought one just after they were first in the shops
1:01 pm - Wednesday, March 17, 2004