Today the fire sales on Canon IS binos are getting more severe, with discounts looking more like "going-out-of-business" or "discontinued model" ("limited number at this price). At B&H, Amazon, etc the "new" (2017) 10x32, 12/32 and 14/32 IS binos are todaydiscounted nearly 50%. This is the third, increasingly large (desperate) discount I have seen in the last month. For example, the 10x32 IS "lists" at $1,350, the price Canon was showing on its website. A month ago Amazon was selling the 10x32 IS binos for $1,000. B&H had a Flash sale on them for $899 which I took (and subsequently returned them as being out of collimation). Then B&H dropped the price to $849, and today it is down to $699!
I wonder if Canon is going to stop selling the 10x12x/14x32 binos altogether because of low demand. They may decide to keep the 10x30 IS II which are a good buy at $499 (discounted only 9% compared to nearly 50% for the new 32mm models), the 10x42 IS L binos which have not been updated for 13? years, and the 15x astro binoculars.
In my research last month and today it was striking that I could find no birdwatching optics stores carried Canon binoculars any more, and that there were/are so very, very few user reviews of the 32mm IS binos on B&H and Amazon, that it would appear that nearly no one bought the 10/12/14x32 binos since they were released in 2017.
Canon makes me angry in that its IS technology is very effective and joy to use. But the ergonomics of their binos, particularly all their eyecups suck. And I suspect that collimation is a more common problem than Canon would have you believe; it just is something that users have to look at carefully to notice.
I wonder if Canon is going to stop selling the 10x12x/14x32 binos altogether because of low demand. They may decide to keep the 10x30 IS II which are a good buy at $499 (discounted only 9% compared to nearly 50% for the new 32mm models), the 10x42 IS L binos which have not been updated for 13? years, and the 15x astro binoculars.
Canon makes me angry in that its IS technology is very effective and joy to use. But the ergonomics of their binos, particularly all their eyecups suck. And I suspect that collimation is a more common problem than Canon would have you believe; it just is something that users have to look at carefully to notice. Bye bye Canon binocs?
I wonder if Canon is going to stop selling the 10x12x/14x32 binos altogether because of low demand. They may decide to keep the 10x30 IS II which are a good buy at $499 (discounted only 9% compared to nearly 50% for the new 32mm models), the 10x42 IS L binos which have not been updated for 13? years, and the 15x astro binoculars.
In my research last month and today it was striking that I could find no birdwatching optics stores carried Canon binoculars any more, and that there were/are so very, very few user reviews of the 32mm IS binos on B&H and Amazon, that it would appear that nearly no one bought the 10/12/14x32 binos since they were released in 2017.
Canon makes me angry in that its IS technology is very effective and joy to use. But the ergonomics of their binos, particularly all their eyecups suck. And I suspect that collimation is a more common problem than Canon would have you believe; it just is something that users have to look at carefully to notice.
I wonder if Canon is going to stop selling the 10x12x/14x32 binos altogether because of low demand. They may decide to keep the 10x30 IS II which are a good buy at $499 (discounted only 9% compared to nearly 50% for the new 32mm models), the 10x42 IS L binos which have not been updated for 13? years, and the 15x astro binoculars.
Canon makes me angry in that its IS technology is very effective and joy to use. But the ergonomics of their binos, particularly all their eyecups suck. And I suspect that collimation is a more common problem than Canon would have you believe; it just is something that users have to look at carefully to notice. Bye bye Canon binocs?
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