Took to the plunge! 1DS Mark II on Order

[jhankins]

Well, as luck would have it, BHPhoto showed the 1DS Mark II in stock early this morning (I had to read it three times to believe it said "In-Stock" and I placed my order immediately with overnight shipping. Now I await "ever so patiently" the shipping info. If their system is as good as I've been told, they've not booked it without it being in stock. That being the case, I will have it in my hands tomorrow. I can't wait, I've been watching the rumour mill sites for months on this, fighting the urge to buy the DCS/C. I'll let you know my honest thoughts about it once I run it through it's paces.

[Reminisce]

Woohoo, the wait really stinks but I hope you get it soon and show us some shots!

[jhankins]

I most certainly will. As luck would have it, I have my own servers so I can post links to larger images quite easily. I'll be happy to do that. As I know I wanted real life examples myself but of course ended up having to rely on early sample images from reviewers and those on the canon site.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Wow.. the BIG TIME!

re: B&H.. this is exacty how I ended up with early releases of the 1DMkII and 20D.... just was there when they were in stock :)

[jhankins]

These guys just rock. I've yet to have an order that I wasn't happy with how they handled. I was nervous about this one due to the scarce availability of this camera. Entire order has shipped (I of course bought a spare battery, new flash cards an SD card and the 3 year warranty.) I plan on picking up the Wireless File Transfer add-on when it becomes available as well, or after my bank account recovers from the virtual drive buy shooting it just received today at 7:00am.

[drisley]

I heard the 1DsMII wasn't really that good.
I tell you what, I will trade you straight up for my 20D.
And I can send it right away so you won't be without a camera long.
:P

[Malaxos1]

I'll trade you my 20D and D60. Oh wait, I will throw in my wife's Olympus C700, you know it has 10x zoom on it...Dean

[jhankins]

I was born at night, just not last night :)

Cheers!

Jim

[MDJAK]

Heck, I'll give you my first born. He's a freshman in college so I'll really be getting the good end of the deal.

I'd love that camera, but you can almost buy a slightly used Honda Accord instead. But then again, you probably have a very nice car already. I know I do.

[roanjohn]

..................Hmmm.................I'll trade you my liver..............its healthy!!!

Ro1

[Longwatcher]

Congratulations,
Glad you could find one in a semi-reasonable period of time.

If my darn day job and bad weather would stop getting in my way I would have been playing with mine more. As it is I have only taken a little over a 1000 shots with it so far in the week I have had it.

I also had fun earlier today showing it off when for the fun of it I set it on small jpeg and continuous and just held the trigger down. Probably not as much fun as on a 1DM2, but I got tired of pushing down before it got tired of takening them at 4FPS. I took about 70 shots in that batch and the red light was out before I could get my head around, so I am guessing it would have gone for all 500+ shots before stopping if I let it.

And if I haven't mentioned it, I love have wide angle lenses being wide angle lenses.

Have fun.

[kndreyn]

Congratulations on the 1DS MKII jhankins. I just recently found this site, and I've learned so much here already. I've had a D60 for a couple of years now and have been pretty happy with it. But today, I took the plunge and bought a 1D Mk II, a 17 - 40 L F4, 70 - 200 F2.8 L IS, and a 100 - 400 L IS. Now I need to buy and train a gorilla to lug this stuff around for me.

Enjoying all the knowledge here.

Best,
Keith

[Wazza]

Congrats on the new beast!

I saw your site yesterday, and see some lovely pics.

All with a 10D?
:)


I'll be several years off a 1Ds mkII equivalent.
I was in fact looking at perhaps a new 20D or a 2nd hand 1Dmk II, in approx 4 months. I'm hoping a 2nd hand 1Dii can drop in price quickly with the release of a better one. Doubt it. So maybe a 20D with 1 or 2 shafts of glass. :twisted: