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Are the only known Mark III's in Australia?
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Mike_V
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Why does Canon Australia get such lousy prices and service from Canon HQ then?
The dealer price in Australia is higher than the full retail price in the States.
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The dealer price in Australia is higher than the full retail price in the States.
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thx1138
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Don't blame you 007. Unfortunately cowards love to hide behind their keyboards and denigrate. They'd never have the guts to talk like that to your face. I rarely post images any more, for a lot of work the effort is just not worth it.
Fredmiranda is a lot friendlier place overall.
montereyphoto
Senior Member
Considering the problems with early production lenses and cameras (including the autofocus problems with preo-production the Mark IIII's) I cannot imagine anyone wanting to be the first to pay $4000 until the bugs are worked out.
LOL There haven't been any hardware issues with any 1 series DSLR bodies historically, but it appears that has become an urban legend. The few issues there have been, like the Lexar CF issue, the review button issue and the reds issue were easily fixed with firmware and hardly constituted major problems. You clearly have no knowledge of typical technological product timelines. There is basically a 100% chance that every model DSLR Canon has ever made has had some sort of pre-production issue, you just never knew about it until this one. Canon clearly overestimated the ability of people to comprehend what a non-issue a reported problem in a pre-production sample months away from release really is. Canon doesn't sell their pre-production models, and my first batch 1Ds, 1DII, 1DsII and 1DIIN bodies had a combined total of 0 issues, so I can't imagine why I would think I'll have an issue with my 1DIII, let alone the Mark IV you mention.
Rich Dykmans
Senior Member
(I'm with you)
DON'T GET A MKIII, IT'S BOUND TO BE A BUGGY POS!
Good strategy . . . . convince everyone these cameras will have flaws and we can get our's sooner!
dnjake
Senior Member
It is reasonably obvious that Canon has had some more than usual problem(s) delivering the 1D Mark III. But beyond that not much is clear. It may be that the nature of the problem is such that once Canon has managed to deal with it, its gone and that problem free cameras will appear in the normal Canon volumes for this stage of a cameras life cycle. Or it could be that fixing the problem is a protracted process that limits camera volumes for a long time and/or results in a higher than normal frequency of qc problems in the early cameras. My guess from the chatter that has surrounded the 1D Mark III is that the ramp up in volumes will be slow and that at the moment we are just seeing a very small trickle of cameras arrive in the market through some unusual channel (gray market). But I don't see any reason to believe that there are any quality problems with the cameras that do make it. But only time will tell. In any case, there is always a greater exposure to the possibility of qc problems with early cameras and more exposure when there is a history of greater than normal problems in getting the camera to market.
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