B&H takes care of their commercial accounts first. As do all stores with significant commercial customers. Being "first on the list" or ordering the day the product is announced only puts one ahead of all the other people they don't know.
Think about why B&H often first shows inventory weeks after a camera is released. They must get hundred(s) of cameras in the first shipment.
guys,
just ordered the 50d.....think i might have made a bad choice. maybre i should wait for the 5d2 with its extra megapixels and much better iq and usable iso range.
help....only have a few days to cancel order
Jason
jaypod wasn't I reading an entire thread dedicated to you picking either the 5Dmk2 or 50D ?
I would stick to the 50D. Much more reasonably priced , much better for wildlife. The 5DMk2 can always be purchased later when the prices have come down.
Thanks for reading my other thread dan,
i know it makes sense but cant stop reading up on the 5d2 and looking at the sample pics. soooo clear...iso is so much better and view through the viewfinder is soooo much nicer.....
have you ever had that feeling in the pit of your stomach that youve made the wrong decision.... head says right decision heart and stomach says otherwise..
as far as the price, yeah its alot more but had my canon 20d since its conception....waited till now to upgrade and will not be looking to upgrade for another 5 years i would say.
am thinking that the camera will stay but ill invest in a longer lens in a few years, maybe 3002.8L to go with my 1.4 tc.
Put it this way the 50D is out and available now, people have had chance to try it and results that I have seen have been great. The 5Dmk2 isnt available yet and therefore there is a lot of hype. It might not turn out to be as fantastic as it looks at the moment. We are all hoping it will but who can tell.
If you have a easy choice get a 50D now that you know will do what you want it to do because people's comments have backed up the specs and speculation. Or join the queue of people waiting for a camera we really don't know for sure how its going to perform.
I know what your saying about feeling you made the wrong choice but your going to feel like that whichever one you go for. At least the 50D is significantly cheaper so if you dont like it you havent wasted too much money.
The choice is yours...
But in the end you have to pick one or the other.
Oct 15, 2008 at 06:04 PM
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sadly AF is the only reason. the cross sensors the spot metering can follow. by putting this sensor in the 5D2 canon effectively dropped the value of used 1Ds3's out there from $7000 to about $4500. Maybe I'm wrong but once the 5D is out on the market I'll bet I'mnot too far off. at B&H so many people are on their email notification list they cant handle any more requests. I still can't believe they put a better sensor in their $2800 camera than they have in the $8000 flagship that just became widely available less than a year ago. Many will want to sell the 1Ds3 and buy a 5D2 and have money left over. If I was a landscaper it would be done no doubt.
xrayvision wrote:
sadly AF is the only reason. the cross sensors the spot metering can follow. by putting this sensor in the 5D2 canon effectively dropped the value of used 1Ds3's out there from $7000 to about $4500. Maybe I'm wrong but once the 5D is out on the market I'll bet I'mnot too far off. at B&H so many people are on their email notification list they cant handle any more requests. I still can't believe they put a better sensor in their $2800 camera than they have in the $8000 flagship that just became widely available less than a year ago. Many will want to sell the 1Ds3 and buy a 5D2 and have money left over. If I was a landscaper it would be done no doubt....Show more →
The whole BH email notification queue collapses often, same with the 1D3, and when an item gets in stock the email notification is often not triggered until the 3rd shipment comes in, anyway.
I am happy that Canon put the same (or better) sensor into a $2800 body that makes my 1Ds3 "obsolete" and overpriced (which it always was, for that matter). So what? I put some 60k shots on the 1Ds3 so far, about 11 months after its introduction. The 5D2 doesn't alter or diminish that a bit. And chances are that when the light gets bad and I have to shoot kids running around indoors again, I'll grab the 1Ds3 and not the 5D2. Still to be seen of course, but I have a hunch.
It's great that a $2800 body can give my $8000 body a run for the money. That's progress, and that's good. Nobody forced me or anyone else to spend $8k, everyone could have waited for this 5D2. Competition is good, and it's about time if I may say so.
jaypod wrote:
just posted back in my original thread.
just hoping someone in here would talk me out of the 50d and into the 5d2.
Depends on what you shoot. If you can't get closer to the subject that you want to focus on (birds, wildlife) and end up having to crop anyways, you're better off with the 50d, as the 5d2's resolution when cropped to 1.6x is that of a 20d/30d.
If you do landscapes and need the MP for a large field of view, I don't see why you shouldn't get the 5d2. The only thing that would stop me is the already amazing IQ of the 5d. Man, take a look around... there still isn't a camera that can best the 5d for IQ/dollar. Three years old, at ISO 100, it can't be beat, by the D3, or D700. The 1d3 and 1ds3 might be able to match it, but not for the same $$. I'm hoping the mark II is that amazing.
