I think photography forums have serious sampling problems that don't accurately reflect sales of camera equipment, and I wouldn't take informal or formal survey

I think photography forums have serious sampling problems that don't accurately reflect sales of camera equipment, and I wouldn't take informal or formal surveys of photography forums as evidence that only rich 'uncle bob' buys expensive camera equipment. My experience is that many professional shooters have much larger lens and accessory collections, have much more modern cameras and generally tend to have 2-3 of them for the purpose of having a second lens ready to shoot and a spare body on hand. For every uncle bob there are a lot of small time pros with 3x cameras as good as bob's not posting about them on forums. I think that in general many 'professionals' aren't shooting with crazy cameras because they don't need them. a Used 5d2 is an amazing camera and its super cheap. It produces professional pictures, provided you can take them. But the build quality and feature set make it a pro camera, not its price.