We all know that the 5D will be replaced soon. We'll likely hear about it next week sometime when they have their big sales meeting. At this point in time, the 5D is no longer available from Canon. Whatever stores have right now is the last of the new 5D's out there. Also, an interesting twist. The G9 and the S5IS have been discontinued. Expect a G10 soon.
Canon has also officially dropped the price of the 40D, and the XSI should see a price drop as well.
Canon's sales meeting is Aug 7 through 14, so expect to hear official news then. It doesn't look like we will be waiting until the show.
I will be a very happy camper if the 5D II is competitive against the D700 i.e. have a similar IQ/feature/price relationship. That's not too much ask, is it?
Let's just hope the 5d2 will actually be available in a timely manner. That's another thing Nikon has over Canon. When a model comes out, it's actually available (at least the d700 is). Canon's history is to not be available to purchase on a wide scale for months after they're "for sale."
Ben Horne wrote:
We all know that the 5D will be replaced soon.
I read that statement and thought, "yeah, we've heard that one before". Then I saw who posted it. We'll see what's around the corner then.
Well, I just committed to a used 5D purchase on the Buy&Sell board,
but for the price I'm getting it at, I'm content with it. I wouldn't lose
too much if I needed to sell it after a new model is announced.
I hope they really have worked out all of the kinks before releasing
this one. The last thing we all need is another body release with
focus / image blurring issues.
Ben's news also partly explains why Amazon had the 5D at the great
price of $1800 during the rebate and was slow to raise the price after
the rebate ended: I suspect Amazon bought up a large pile of them as
a final purchase.
After all the waiting, I am not expecting the 5DII to have much better
image quality than the already excellent 5D. Here's hoping it is a great
replacement body, though.
cineski wrote:
Let's just hope the 5d2 will actually be available in a timely manner. That's another thing Nikon has over Canon. When a model comes out, it's actually available (at least the d700 is). Canon's history is to not be available to purchase on a wide scale for months after they're "for sale."
Edited by cineski on Jul 30, 2008 at 05:23 PM GMT
Not true with the original 5D which was easy to purchase within a month of its announcement (I know because that's when I purchased mine from B&H and I wasn't on any waiting lists).
Sean Mills wrote:
I just spent 8k on a 1ds3, its only logical that a cheaper model with the majority of the res and feature would come out shortly there after .
New lenses, that's what I'm looking forward to.
I'm waiting for them to announce the new 5DII so that I can then go buy a 1DsIII for $8,000 (or thereabouts). I've making myself wait it out so that way I'll feel like I explored my options, but I still expect that the 1DsIII will better suit my needs/desires and will be worth it, unless Canon comes out with a "mini 1Ds" with about 18 megapixels, or more, at a price of somewhere around $6,000 (or less) -- that would be my dream camera.
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I've making myself wait it out so that way I'll feel like I explored my options, but I still expect that the 1DsIII will better suit my needs/desires and will be worth it, unless Canon comes out with a "mini 1Ds" with about 18 megapixels, or more, at a price of somewhere around $6,000 (or less) -- that would be my dream camera.