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Remember, boys and girls, the 5D III will be widely available and in your little hands a mere month from now. That means, in order to have sufficient inventory available worldwide, Canon has been building 5D III bodies for nearly six months if not longer. That, in turn, means the engineering was completed more than a year ago and the manuals and packaging were designed and printed more than six months ago.

This stuff doesn't just appear overnight.
 
DotCom Editor said:
Remember, boys and girls, the 5D III will be widely available and in your little hands a mere month from now. That means, in order to have sufficient inventory available worldwide, Canon has been building 5D III bodies for nearly six months if not longer. That, in turn, means the engineering was completed more than a year ago and the manuals and packaging were designed and printed more than six months ago.

This stuff doesn't just appear overnight.
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The same applies to Nikon and the other camera Manufactures :)
So, Just what is your point?

Walter Sr
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DotCom Editor said:
Remember, boys and girls, the 5D III will be widely available and in your little hands a mere month from now. That means, in order to have sufficient inventory available worldwide, Canon has been building 5D III bodies for nearly six months if not longer. That, in turn, means the engineering was completed more than a year ago and the manuals and packaging were designed and printed more than six months ago.

This stuff doesn't just appear overnight.
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The 5D-III has "been in production" since November 2011.
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Ooo really?
Mennnnn, then I wait for the 5DmkIV.
I don't want old equipment....

pfffff :P
 
candleJack said:
So why do we keep getting only pre-production models at showrooms and review sites?
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Because it is possible for Canon to flash a new firmware just days before shipping.

Though preferably some weeks before or otherwise the shipping starts very slowly.
 
The problem with your idea that they have been building them for 6 months is you don't know how many they will have available on launch day. You also don't know how many factories they have making them, how many runs they do a day and what the yield of those runs are. They aren't going to have a million of them available on launch day, its going to be far lower. possibly in the tens of thousands.
 
I read somewhere that the D800 was ready for release a year ago, but got put on the shelf after the earthquake. I imagine the 5D3 was probably in the same boat. It could be that we'll see the next generation of these cameras as early as 2014 as a result, or a radical departure from Canon OR Nikon in response to the other's successes with this generation.

It's unlikely Canon will be able to match the resolution and IQ combination of the D800 with its current sensor fab, but any advances in this area can be expected to surface in the 1-series before it goes down the line. Unless the D800 seriously unsettles Canon's market share, I don't expect to see equivalent resolution in a Canon FF body for at least a couple of years, maybe more, and then first in the next 1-series.

I could be wrong of course, and Canon could be planning a higher-res crop with new sensor technology to match the D800 at a much lower price (7D Mk II anyone?). 2012 will for sure be an interesting year for both Canon and Nikon, and I doubt we've heard the last from either company this early in the year.
 
Wow! Hoping for a big price reduction since that model is so old. :> )
DotCom Editor said:
Remember, boys and girls, the 5D III will be widely available and in your little hands a mere month from now. That means, in order to have sufficient inventory available worldwide, Canon has been building 5D III bodies for nearly six months if not longer. That, in turn, means the engineering was completed more than a year ago and the manuals and packaging were designed and printed more than six months ago.

This stuff doesn't just appear overnight.
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Of course production has to start early to meet the demands before it actually go on sale. Canon wouldn't announce a camera for distribution on a certain date and show nothing for it. And they also have to provide sample cameras to the photographic communities for evaluation.
 
tocar said:
Of course production has to start early to meet the demands before it actually go on sale. Canon wouldn't announce a camera for distribution on a certain date and show nothing for it. And they also have to provide sample cameras to the photographic communities for evaluation.
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The demand is probably quite high during the initial sale period. I don't know how many 5D's are being made pr month but I saw that someone estimated 30.000 D800 being made per month (and 5.000 D4's). Link: http://www.techradar.com/news/photography-video-capture/cameras/nikon-reveals-d800-production-targets-1063413

Does anyone know how many D5 mk II's there have been made? Or 7D or D60 or Nikon D700 or well something to compare these numbers with?

My guess is that 'a lot of people' have preordered and a lot of people will order as soon as the first people are getting theirs (friends who see it, people waiting for reviews etc). But does anyone have numbers for how many these 'lot of people' usually are? Is it the same amount who would buy the camera during 1 month, 6 month, a whole year???
 
DaDane said:
tocar said:
Of course production has to start early to meet the demands before it actually go on sale. Canon wouldn't announce a camera for distribution on a certain date and show nothing for it. And they also have to provide sample cameras to the photographic communities for evaluation.
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The demand is probably quite high during the initial sale period. I don't know how many 5D's are being made pr month but I saw that someone estimated 30.000 D800 being made per month (and 5.000 D4's). Link: http://www.techradar.com/news/photography-video-capture/cameras/nikon-reveals-d800-production-targets-1063413

Does anyone know how many D5 mk II's there have been made? Or 7D or D60 or Nikon D700 or well something to compare these numbers with?

My guess is that 'a lot of people' have preordered and a lot of people will order as soon as the first people are getting theirs (friends who see it, people waiting for reviews etc). But does anyone have numbers for how many these 'lot of people' usually are? Is it the same amount who would buy the camera during 1 month, 6 month, a whole year???
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Let me answer my own question then.

Canon have been selling 10 million DSLR's in just 16 months (according to this press release: http://www.canon.com/news/2011/oct18e.html ). That's more than 600.000 pr. month. Obviously they sell more of the cheaper one (1100D, 600D, 550D) than they do of the more expensive ones like e.g. the 5D.
So it's not totally comparable numbers, but at least there's something
 
Technology is a ship sailing across the sea. Onward to the horizon. End users jump overboard at a given point as they choose to buy in to a product and to stop watching the water pass beneath them. Briefly, they clutch "the latest." Then they look up and the ship has moved away. The creation of new does not magically turn the "old" into crap unless you have made a firm decision that you cannot and will not be satisfied.

Stu
 
If the 5D3 was "finished" a year ago, and started production 6 months ago there would have been leaks all over the place. As it is there weren't. There were rumors with different bits of information which indicates different prototypes out for testing which also points to the model for production not having been chosen until recently.

Canon makes 100,000s of dSLR every month. They don't need to spend 6 months making one single model in order to have enough to start selling it!

Get a life, please.
 
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