"Rich" wrote in message
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The huge price jumps of the 5DIII and Ti4 relative to their predecessors
would seem to indicate they aren't just satisfied with increases in lens
prices.

Canon and Nikon are never satisfied with any level of profit! (just like
most companies, Apple is FAR worse IMO)
However their perception is the prices are not a "huge price jump" over the
original price of their predecessors, rather the older model is now heavily
reduced in price over what it was originally. It's hard to imagine how they
think a new 5D3 body is worth up to twice as much as a new 5D2 body at
current discount prices though. Good time to buy a 5D2 though, not so good
if you want to trade one in on a Nikon 800 of course :-)

Trevor.