Canon to discontinue Astro model DSLR's?

Folks - did anyone hear a rumor that Canon is not going to continue with the special astro models?

no, but I wouldn't be surprised, they're a bit expensive.

Did'nt hear anything Lads, but I'll ask around. Why would they do this anyway? Surely the no.1 answer is money....

Keith..

Possibly the profit margin is not good enough or they're not getting the sales, or the competition is too stiff... But its only a rumour at the mo....

Well, they've removed it from their product pages in the US and UK. You can only find it under archived products. I think there is a higher demand than supply but they only made a limited run of that model.
It really was an odd move for Canon; there just could not be a large enough target audience for them to make a large profit from that model and the cost increase over the normal 20D was excessive.
There were also a couple going on Astromart and astrobuysell recently.

T

To be honest it was way overpriced anyway.