Are The MKIII's Being Shipped Yet?

[Tonyv]

Just checking to see if the Mark III's are hitting the store shelves yet? I am still picking up mixed signals. Everything from the third week in May to late August. Why can't Canon just let the buying public know?
I bought a 5D last week and I read somewhere that they would be out the week of the 14th so I arranged for Ritz to upgrade from the 5D to the MKIII thinking I wouldn't have to wait long. Now I don't know when to expect it.

Tony

[sergi2]

¿What says Canon?

[Richard Sneath]

Originally Posted by Tonyv

Just checking to see if the Mark III's are hitting the store shelves yet? I am still picking up mixed signals. Everything from the third week in May to late August. Why can't Canon just let the buying public know?
I bought a 5D last week and I read somewhere that they would be out the week of the 14th so I arranged for Ritz to upgrade from the 5D to the MKIII thinking I wouldn't have to wait long. Now I don't know when to expect it.

Tony

Popular opionion seems to be that if you pre-ordered a few months ago, then yeh, mid to end May. The backlog is so great that ordering today may well incur a few months wait. It will be interesting to see when they actually hit the retail stores.

[Tonyv]

Canon has not answered any of my emails.

[jra]

Upgrading from the 5D after a week....I guess you like to keep on the "cutting edge" I don't know when the MKIII will show up on shelves but you've got a heck of a camera to use in the mean time.

[cosworth]

There are on the shelves in countries near Japan. Wait two to three weeks. For The rest of the world.

[cdesperado]

According to Canon reps I spoke to today, it could be anytime in May, June, or July.

Some pre-orders are getting theirs now, but this appears to be a very, very small percentage and appears to be concentrated in Pacific islands. I don't think anyone in the US has actually obtained one through a retail source yet. (One guy in Australia is confirmed, but that's all I have seen so far I think.)

[prep]

Was in Camera House Cannington (Perth WA) this afternoon. One left, $6K and it's yours. More due next week. Also have a 16-35L II, and what looks like a nice SH 24-70L.

[Richard Sneath]

Originally Posted by prep

Was in Camera House Cannington (Perth WA) this afternoon. One left, $6K and it's yours. More due next week. Also have a 16-35L II, and what looks like a nice SH 24-70L.

Are you saying it was available off the shelf to anyone with 6k ? If so thats interesting and contradictory to what I've heard elsewhere.

[prep]

Yep, and a $1 change I think

[Myles7]

Prediction of Friday for early-orders from Jessops (UK). I paid in full on April 1st (!) and believe that very few others had dropped the full wedge at that point.

Here's hoping....


16-35 mk II arrived last week by the way.

[S.Horton]

Local shop here said their Canon reps popped by and will not say when they can have even one, regardless of pre-orders. Couple pros there guessed September.

[PacAce]

Originally Posted by hortonsl62

Local shop here said their Canon reps popped by and will not say when they can have even one, regardless of pre-orders. Couple pros there guessed September.

It sucks that that local shop won't even be carrying the 1D class camera unless someone orders one from them and puts down a deposit for it.

[hef]

I plopped a big deposit about a month ago or so... waiting paitently for that monster. I just hope it's before the end of May as the busy season is getting close.

[Tonyv]

I ordered one from Ritz outside of Chicago today. They couldn't tell me when they were coming in but they did say there were only 54 orders ahead of me. I got the feeling this camera isn't going to sell as fast as say a D200 or other cheaper cameras. Maybe it's the cost, maybe people are just waiting to see how the camera works. I was really shocked that there weren's hundreds of orders ahead of mine.
I will keep the forum posted. Ritz said they would call me as soon as they heard anything.

Tony