I preordered from ritz one month ago. I've asked them via livechat if they can tell me when it might ship or what spot i am. The person in the chat message said they could not know and didnt have any information about shipping. I'm wondering if the live chat people are just useless. I'm going to call tomorrow. If someone ordered it 2 weeks ago and was #300 i'm looking good I guess if i preordered a month ago right? This waiting is getting harder everyday. All my lenses have no mate...
eaglejmUMR wrote:
I preordered from ritz one month ago. I've asked them via livechat if they can tell me when it might ship or what spot i am. The person in the chat message said they could not know and didnt have any information about shipping. I'm wondering if the live chat people are just useless. I'm going to call tomorrow. If someone ordered it 2 weeks ago and was #300 i'm looking good I guess if i preordered a month ago right? This waiting is getting harder everyday. All my lenses have no mate...
I have yet to ever have a good experience with ritz that being said I haven't been in one in years.
Rather than Ritz, I'd preorder with onecall. If you want, you could open a onecall charge card (handled by GE Moneybank) and have it with low/zero payments and interest free for like 12 months.
Very interesting article. Yes, I know it's not about the 5D mkII.
But what he's writing about (from a Nikon perspective) affects us all for the most part, and perhaps helps to explain what's happening with the price increases (and possible reductions later!).
I went to speak to PRA today about the 5D2, They told me that those that had placed their order before the price change will still get it at the first price, They had made a mistake on their pricing, But will honour the price for those that had already placed their order before the changes were made. They are expecting the 5D2 to arrive on November 27th.
Canon Australia also told PRA today that they will be increasing their lens prices on December 15th! So if your looking at getting some lenses, Now would be the time to do it!
FWIW, I just came back from a trade show I visited with a fellow FM'er and handled the 5D2 (pre-production). I was allowed to insert a card. They formatted it afterwards but I do have a copy of Rescue Pro so I managed to pull off most of the images. To save myself some bandwidth I'll not post them here. Results were: ISO1600: superb; ISO3200: very, very useable; ISO6400: only so-so; H1: horrible, didn't even try H2. ISO12800 shows a lot of banding, especially in the JPGs. We did shoot RAWs and I managed to convert them with Capture One 4.5.2; less banding here but still not really useable. Mind you: this was a pre-production model and 5D2 support in Capture One is only preliminary so you shouldn't draw any conclusions.
Very nice camera tho. Obviously not really different from the current 5D but that screen is simply stunning. Video is nice and produces high-quality files (even though I didn't manage to pull one off the card, we saw a few very convincing demos).
The topping of the cake was handling the new Zeiss 85 1.4 and 50 1.4 offerings with Canon fittings. Both very nice and sturdy high-precision instruments, though you have to turn that MF ring for what feels like 5 minutes to go from close focusing to infinity...
from that I am hearing 5DII needs firmware debugging as high noise banding is always software issues and rarerly hardware. Most of the EOS cameras had this issues on their early firmware version and this is somehing I could not really understand . EOS 10D,20D,30D,40D had the same banding problem in their first version of firmware.
Thanks all for the replies about my question about RitzCamera. I placed an order with them yesterday and just been told that the shipment is expected to be on 11/27. Count down...
mico wrote:
Thanks all for the replies about my question about RitzCamera. I placed an order with them yesterday and just been told that the shipment is expected to be on 11/27. Count down...
I've been hearing different dates every week. Yes, one of these dates will be correct, but until I hear it from Canon 'll take everything I read with a very large grain of salt.
I LOVE Ritz! This is my 3rd pre-order with them and I don't have a single complaint. On all of my pre-orders I have asked about my postition in line and expected ship date and it is always the same answer - "we don't know/don't have that info"
I have always gotten mine the first few days they were available. Keeping my fingers crossed that it will be the same this time.
Maybe I should keep my Ritz praise to myself - might add too many to the next pre-order list
The b&m store is a different story - I don't waste my time there.
EOS20 wrote:
Canon Australia also told PRA today that they will be increasing their lens prices on December 15th! So if your looking at getting some lenses, Now would be the time to do it!
Glad I just bought my used 70-200/2.8L IS then! Kinda hanging out for the body to be released to see how they go together, although it's superb on the 40D :-)
(And yeah, I heard that story last week as well. Am more inclined to believe it hearing it from PRA.)
Emile Gregoire wrote:
FWIW, I just came back from a trade show I visited with a fellow FM'er and handled the 5D2 (pre-production). I was allowed to insert a card. They formatted it afterwards but I do have a copy of Rescue Pro so I managed to pull off most of the images.
That's extraordinarily clueless of them. Why would they not just have their own card in it if they wanted to format yours before you take it away? And haven't they heard of rescue software? Bizarre.
miccullen wrote:
That's extraordinarily clueless of them. Why would they not just have their own card in it if they wanted to format yours before you take it away? And haven't they heard of rescue software? Bizarre.
Most people aren't that aware of the software. When I mention it to people with problems with their card, they are surprised. Even when companies such as SanDisk make a big deal of it in the package, and tell where to download it, people just throw the cardboard away without looking.
While I hate to say it, pros are often just as clueless about software as anyone else. I used to spend a lot of time on the phone with clients explaining how to install something, or how to use it.
(Or why their pirated version wasn't working properly, and why they needed to go and actually BUY a copy.)
Mel Gross wrote:
Most people aren't that aware of the software.
Agree with all you said, but it still seems to e a particularly dumb way of doing things. Why not just use their own cards? Problem solved, and it's easier anyway.
miccullen wrote:
Agree with all you said, but it still seems to e a particularly dumb way of doing things. Why not just use their own cards? Problem solved, and it's easier anyway.
Sure, but I'll bet that in the crush these things are often subject to, they've "lost" more than their share of cards.
miccullen wrote:
Gaffa the door shut or something. Put a 512MB or 1GB card in it. Still seems like a significantly sub-optimal way to do it.
The Canon fellow on the left wouldn't let anyone insert a card, the one on the right was less strict; he was the younger one and didn't have a lot of technical knowledge, so I figure he was the new kid on the block. Obviously I asked him
Emile Gregoire wrote:
The Canon fellow on the left wouldn't let anyone insert a card, the one on the right was less strict; he was the younger one and didn't have a lot of technical knowledge, so I figure he was the new kid on the block. Obviously I asked him
that being said I haven't been in one in years.
