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p.1 #1 · Conversation with a Canon Rep

I met up with Canon Rep on Saturday and what he told me was quite interesting. I'm in LA, so this relates to the LA area as far as studio requests and such.

FWIW, I'll pass it on here, though I always take these things with a grain of salt.

The 1Ds is back ordered and will be for awhile.

The 5DII will be out maybe next month maybe later. He, via Canon, thinks it'll be a while before the production catches up with the orders. June is when he predicts you'll find them sitting on shelves, until then they'll be flying out the door.

Michael Bay requested two for use on The Transformers sequel right away and was told they weren't available. Same thing with James Cameron, sorry, not available. Sony ordered 150 5DII's, but will have to wait a while. As of now, they just aren't available.

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Oct 06, 2008 at 10:38 PM

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EA6B wrote:
I met up with Canon Rep on Saturday and what he told me was quite interesting. I'm in LA, so this relates to the LA area as far as studio requests and such.

FWIW, I'll pass it on here, though I always take these things with a grain of salt.

The 1Ds is back ordered and will be for awhile.

The 5DII will be out maybe next month maybe later. He, via Canon, thinks it'll be a while before the production catches up with the orders. June is when he predicts you'll find them sitting on shelves, until then they'll be flying out the door.

Michael Bay requested two for use on The Transformers sequel right away and was told they weren't available. Same thing with James Cameron, sorry, not available. Sony ordered 150 5DII's, but will have to wait a while. As of now, they just aren't available.

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Kinda tells you where the Sony A900 stands...

Oct 06, 2008 at 11:21 PM

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p.1 #3 · Conversation with a Canon Rep

Interesting. I'm pretty sure it can't be demand that is keeping the 1Ds backordered? Selling cameras to their competitor Sony?

Oct 06, 2008 at 11:21 PM

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I think the 5DII will be out this month. I think James Cameron can have as many as he wants.

Oct 07, 2008 at 12:45 AM

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p.1 #5 · Conversation with a Canon Rep

Sure he can, but he wanted them last week.

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Oct 07, 2008 at 02:39 AM

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And he expected them to be available last week? Yeah, right. No-one was going to be getting one last week. The further we get into October the more likely some units will become available though. We'll have to wait and see.

Oct 07, 2008 at 02:46 AM

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Ever seen the making of the Matrix video? Imagine being the sales rep when you get the order for 150 5DmkII's and 150 135L lenses. Yeah, that's a good day.

Oct 07, 2008 at 03:46 AM

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So I just googled around to see how they did the Matrix effects with multiple cameras. The term is called "bullet time" apparently.

Very short behind the scenes version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZh787eKeEw

Long version with explanations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYOdkWLfypU

Oct 07, 2008 at 03:51 AM

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p.1 #9 · Conversation with a Canon Rep

I assume you're talking about the moron Canon rep you met at Calumet last
Saturday. Trust anything this guys says, good luck. He has no clue.

Oct 07, 2008 at 04:38 AM

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snowboarder wrote:
Trust anything this guys says, good luck. He has no clue.

Aren't all sales guys the same, talk bs to drive sales ??

Oct 07, 2008 at 09:10 AM

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what would Sony learn from 150 cameras that they could not learn from one??

Oct 07, 2008 at 09:36 AM

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Tim Ashton wrote:
what would Sony learn from 150 cameras that they could not learn from one??

How good the canon quality checking is on stuff going out the door.

Oct 07, 2008 at 09:46 AM

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Sounds like the rep could do some writing for the movies.

Oct 07, 2008 at 09:58 AM

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