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Are you pre-ordering the M5?

Started Sep 15, 2016 | Polls thread
antoineb Veteran Member • Posts: 6,653
What's the point of pre-ordering? There is none!
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Hi Harold,

what would be the point of pre-ordering, please?

There was perhaps a time, in the past, where a given new camera would sometimes offer such a quantum jump, that it might have made a difference if you could have received it earlier.

At least, if might have made a difference to working pros.

But in 2016, new cameras offer, at best, very marginal improvements, so that the new model opens zero new territory.

And finally, though the M5 looks nice, it is likely not in working pro territory.  To start with, it has zero native lenses for the pro crowd.

So anyone who pre-orders, will receive earlier, a camera which will make no difference to their shooting.

And, they will run the risk of having to live with early bugs.

So what would be the point?  Let that thing have been on the market for at least 6 months, have been reviewed.  And then, perhaps, we'll talk!

HaroldC3 wrote:

Just curious if people are going to pre-order. For me, the combination of price and time frame (I wanted it for fall photos) has caused me to not pre-order it.

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