They have the camera in stock but the sale person told me not to buy
it because full frame have vignette, need bigger and heavy lenses,
etc and there is a new one coming out soon. I thought sales person
just sell sell and sell. First time ever seen this sort of thing
happen.
Sadly, not the first time I have seen this sort of thing - and the 5D
seems to get more than its fair share of idiot sales people. I
bought mine just over two years ago, soon after it hit the streets,
but I had to go further afield than I expected to do so.
I initially went to my local store and asked to have a look at a 5D
as they had one in the display cabinet. They refused to take it out
of the display or let me touch it on the grounds that "the sort of
person that would buy that type of camera wouldn't want anyone else
to have handled it first". I asked to see the manager and he
repeated the same line! My reply was that I was just the sort of
person who would buy that type of camera but I certainly wasn't going
to part with more than two and a half grand without having first
tried it out to make sure I was comfortable with it. I walked out of
the store and caught a train to central London where I bought it
slightly cheaper from someone who was interested in selling.
The following day I went back to the local store, 5D in hand, and
asked what the largest memory card they had for it was. They showed
me a Sandisk - 4GB I think - but I didn't buy it saying that it
wasn't the sort of shop I felt comfortable spending money in. I've
never been back and, having now moved 120miles away, am extremely
unlikely to ever again. ;-)
