New Canon Lenses Delayed - Confirmed

[daaaveman]

I was just on the Rob Galbraith forum and Chuck Westfall confirms this about the 70-300 DO and the 280-300L...


Re: Canon 70-300mm DO IS USM Delayed?

The actual USA shipping date for both of these lenses has not been finalized yet, but it looks like they will be delayed at least until June. No further info is available at this time.

Chuck Westfall
Director/Technical Information Dept.
Camera Division/Canon U.S.A., Inc.

Edit:
Here's the link to the thread btw...
http://www.robgalbraith.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=230530&page=0&view=collap sed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

[JoeTampa]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEE


This is the worst tease I have ever had since Britney got unmarried.....


Almost makes me want to go Sigma out of spite... or... God help me... Tamaron....


I want that lens to replace my 28-200.. And Canon was telling all the photo rags that they would be released in MARCH.


</RANT>

[Belmondo]

Do you suppose there's any connection between their 'later than promised' ship dates on lenses and the Mk II? I was at Canon Repair Center in Irvine today, and everybody there was as uninformed on the subject as I am.

[Jesper]

:cry: I'm going to visit my brother in the USA at the end of May / beginning of June and I was planning to get the 70 - 300 DO IS USM ... looks like I'm going to be out of luck ... :(

[ron chappel]

You could allways leave him some money so he could send you a 'gift' when it is available : :D
Here in australia,gifts that come into the country are exempt from taxes (i'm pretty sure).Maybe your country has a similar set up?

[5 Type]

In my country (Canada) It depens on the value of the gift. If it's value is more than 60$, you'll have to pay for customs and canadian taxes. We can always ask for a lesser declared value but you can't put an insurance on it for the real value of the item. -- that suks --

[Jesper]

I've bought stuff in the USA before and have it shipped here, and never needed to pay taxes. Even on things that had cost $300. Probably they don't check every package and I have been luck so far...