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"The model in question is the EOS-1V, which, incidentally, the company actually stopped making a full eight years ago. Since it has simply been selling out the

"The model in question is the EOS-1V, which, incidentally, the company actually stopped making a full eight years ago. Since it has simply been selling out the rest of its stock, which, it seems, has finally depleted." That says a lot about how few they have been selling.

alex_duf 8y ago
or how big their stock was?
ekianjo 8y ago
> That says a lot about how few they have been selling. Well, Canon has done zero marketing for this model and focused solely on digital cameras, so I would even wager nobody knew it was still being sold!
wiredfool 8y ago
I think that's pretty standard for a lot of camera equipment. They'll do a run of one lens, and then a run of another, rather than 10 of this and 10 of that.
- msbarnett 8y ago
  I dunno about other companies, but Canon does "cellular" manufacturing rather than having huge lines all dedicated to just one thing. Each cell is 5-or-6 small reconfigurable stations manned by a couple of people, who build a body or lens from start to finish, rapidly re-taskable to different lenses or bodies on the fly. Hundreds of cells on a manufacturing floor.
ethagknight 8y ago
I don’t know that you can read between those lines, manufacturing one unit might cost nearly the same as manufacturing a million units, so might as well stock up despite waning sales based on where you think the obsolescence tail wraps up. For a momentous event like their last film camera sale, today may well have been their target date from 8 years back. I have a cousin that works in Arrow Electronics’ obsolescence division, where they buy out final production lots in aging technologies (basically keep production lines going a few more months or years) with the intent to supply users of obsolete but operational systems with a fresh supply of parts and service. Lots of government and military equipment. lucrative business and there is an art to projecting future demand of obsolete tech. Not saying that this was Canon’s intent as well, but it was eye opening hearing him talk about his business.

alex_duf 8y ago

or how big their stock was?

ekianjo 8y ago

> That says a lot about how few they have been selling. Well, Canon has done zero marketing for this model and focused solely on digital cameras, so I would even wager nobody knew it was still being sold!

wiredfool 8y ago

I think that's pretty standard for a lot of camera equipment. They'll do a run of one lens, and then a run of another, rather than 10 of this and 10 of that.

msbarnett 8y ago
I dunno about other companies, but Canon does "cellular" manufacturing rather than having huge lines all dedicated to just one thing. Each cell is 5-or-6 small reconfigurable stations manned by a couple of people, who build a body or lens from start to finish, rapidly re-taskable to different lenses or bodies on the fly. Hundreds of cells on a manufacturing floor.

ethagknight 8y ago

I don’t know that you can read between those lines, manufacturing one unit might cost nearly the same as manufacturing a million units, so might as well stock up despite waning sales based on where you think the obsolescence tail wraps up. For a momentous event like their last film camera sale, today may well have been their target date from 8 years back. I have a cousin that works in Arrow Electronics’ obsolescence division, where they buy out final production lots in aging technologies (basically keep production lines going a few more months or years) with the intent to supply users of obsolete but operational systems with a fresh supply of parts and service. Lots of government and military equipment. lucrative business and there is an art to projecting future demand of obsolete tech. Not saying that this was Canon’s intent as well, but it was eye opening hearing him talk about his business.