I must say I've not heard of the problem before with the 5D. I just read that link and wow, that is bizarre. It would be incorrect for me to say it's the same problem, since I don't know, but looks like it might be.
Whatever it is though, it is so poor QC as to be embarrassing.
Are they using Post-It note glue to hold the cameras together these days?
If it was DOA out of the box for the first time, you just chalk it up to coincidence. Second time is happenstance. Third time... well, Daan my friend, avoid getting a 4th. You might just get a pile of shredded equipment that was in a blender.
I hear there are a lot of counterfit 5DII's making it to the market and even dealers can't tell them apart from the real thing until this kind of thing happens. The other way to tell a genuine 5DII from a counterfit is to see if there is any noise in the shadows at low ISO - the real Canon has lots of noise but the counterfits are noise free - I'll be buying a Nikon D700x
shirozina wrote:
I hear there are a lot of counterfit 5DII's making it to the market and even dealers can't tell them apart from the real thing until this kind of thing happens. The other way to tell a genuine 5DII from a counterfit is to see if there is any noise in the shadows at low ISO - the real Canon has lots of noise but the counterfits are noise free - I'll be buying a Nikon D700x
RobertLynn wrote:
Poor dude has gotten 3 out of 3 cameras that were bad. These aren't exactly free either. this is unacceptable to have even 1 with a problem, but 3 in a row, that's just horrific.
From what I read, he got 2 bad cameras, not 3. The 2nd instance had to do with the lens, not the camera. Don't get me wrong, I would be livid about this too, but since this has become a "dump on the 5D MKII" thread, let's at least keep the facts in order.
Daan B wrote:
I think I am done with Canon's 5D2 after three times trying... WTF are they doing in their factories What a dissapointment
Their manufacturing problems are ongoing for the last four years. Canon themselves said they were building new green field sitefacilities to correct this.
Either This January or last December they scrapped this idea [it should have come into production now] so they never built it and ain't gonna.
They are using cheap labour, like everyone else and naturally they are getting monkeys to do the assembly.
Canon's manufacturing has been a constant source of grief for years and years now, I'm delighted you've experienced this.
At this rate they could employ, Irish, German, English or USA workers [except the car assemblers] AT OUR wage levels and make even more profits.
They are using cheap labour, like everyone else and naturally they are getting monkeys to do the assembly.
Canon's manufacturing has been a constant source of grief for years and years now, I'm delighted you've experienced this.
At this rate they could employ, Irish, German, English or USA workers [except the car assemblers] AT OUR wage levels and make even more profits.
Your statement raises a couple of issues IMHO. How can you be delighted by another member's plight? Secondly, calling workers in low-cost countries "monkeys" in a blanket statement is not only insulting, it is also massively incorrect. FYI, China graduates more engineers than any other country in the world. And without Chinese "monkeys", you would very likely have no computer on which to write this post, nor cellphone with which to answer your calls. If they can make laptops and cellphones, they can also make cameras. That they are able to do it is exactly why manufacturing has massively left our shores. If they were still the monkeys you mention, then there would be no problem. That being said, while the "overall" capability is clearly there, there can also be instances of incompetence, like anywhere else.
I must be one of the lucky ones. My 5D2 is my 7th Canon DSLR, all purchased from a local vendor, all new except one and all have worked well. Possibly due to my Irish heritage?
philber wrote:
And without Chinese "monkeys", you would very likely have no computer on which to write this post, .
Please, don't show yourself up. Of course we'd have these tools and toys, we'd just be paying MORE for them.
Centralized manufacturing facilities like in China are our biggest threat to World Economics, the US trade deficit alone is staggering and China has risen in five years to what one would have expected 25 or 30 years steady growth to achieve.
That would be fine if two things were present: reliably built products and a market to sell them in.
What a dissapointment 
