POTN Aussie club # 10..'The Shame'

Pick your Porsche
Only the Carrera RS (bottom left) is for sell.

http://img862.imagesha​ck.us/img862/8237/img4​573web.jpg

You guys can't get anything right, can you? Oversized image changed to link.

Jon

Al!!! Welcome back mate!

Justin, the only porsche worth having as the 944!

Shot this last year at History Alive (which incidentally is coming up again this Queen's Birthday Weekend), and it seemed somewhat appropriate:

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/dadegroot/55145​61340/

Evening all. A Canon rep came to our photoclub tutorial today and gave a little talk + presentation. Found out a few interesting things that are apparently going to happen.. thought I might share

1. Killed rumors of a 5D mk3 coming out this year. He said that we wouldn't see one until at least the 1Ds mk4 had come out... and he'd heard nothing on that yet either.
2. Said a 24-70 refresh is long overdue.. but that it wouldn't get IS (as some people in the rumor forums are lusting for).

And the more important ones..

3. In 2-3 weeks, Canon is going to do a pricing restructure to bring prices of Australian stock down to compete with grey imports (lol, everyone clapped at this point). You'd pay maybe 30-50 dollars more than the imported versions.

4. To go with that, they are also going to kill the "international warranty" in Australia. Recent changes to the law have meant that they don't have to provide the international warranty... It combines with the price restructure to essentially force us to buy Australian stock. We asked about lenses that we currently have (I think my 70-200 is a grey import...:confused but he said they weren't any different. Those of us with a lot of grey L series glass were rather annoyed....

DAdeGroot wrote in post #12000280
Shot this last year at History Alive (which incidentally is coming up again this Queen's Birthday Weekend), and it seemed somewhat appropriate:


A little Tank at History Alive, 2010 by David de Groot, on Flickr

Very nice Dave but I think this might be more appropriate...

Haha, people that thought the 5DIII would be soon are crazy! They current is only a few years old, and there's not exactly too much to upgrade without going to a 1 series...Basically, why hurt your sales?

Dave D; lovely shot! DOF is perfect!

S7000 wrote in post #12000301
Haha, people that thought the 5DIII would be soon are crazy! They current is only a few years old, and there's not exactly too much to upgrade without going to a 1 series...Basically, why hurt your sales?

Exactly, lol. Apparently the 5D mk2 killed a lot of 1Ds mk3 sales, so they don't want to have a repeat of the same thing.

Awesome Minty! Great news for new lens purchases if that pricing model takes effect though shame on the grey import purchases...

mcminty wrote in post #12000293
Evening all. A Canon rep came to our photoclub tutorial today and gave a little talk + presentation. Found out a few interesting things that are apparently going to happen.. thought I might share

1. Killed rumors of a 5D mk3 coming out this year. He said that we wouldn't see one until at least the 1Ds mk4 had come out... and he'd heard nothing on that yet either.
2. Said a 24-70 refresh is long overdue.. but that it wouldn't get IS (as some people in the rumor forums are lusting for).

And the more important ones..

3. In 2-3 weeks, Canon is going to do a pricing restructure to bring prices of Australian stock down to compete with grey imports (lol, everyone clapped at this point). You'd pay maybe 30-50 dollars more than the imported versions.

4. To go with that, they are also going to kill the "international warranty" in Australia. Recent changes to the law have meant that they don't have to provide the international warranty... It combines with the price restructure to essentially force us to buy Australian stock. We asked about lenses that we currently have (I think my 70-200 is a grey import...:confused but he said they weren't any different. Those of us with a lot of grey L series glass were rather annoyed....

Interesting, thanks.

mcminty wrote in post #12000293
Evening all. A Canon rep came to our photoclub tutorial today and gave a little talk + presentation. Found out a few interesting things that are apparently going to happen.. thought I might share

1. Killed rumors of a 5D mk3 coming out this year. He said that we wouldn't see one until at least the 1Ds mk4 had come out... and he'd heard nothing on that yet either.
2. Said a 24-70 refresh is long overdue.. but that it wouldn't get IS (as some people in the rumor forums are lusting for).

And the more important ones..

3. In 2-3 weeks, Canon is going to do a pricing restructure to bring prices of Australian stock down to compete with grey imports (lol, everyone clapped at this point). You'd pay maybe 30-50 dollars more than the imported versions.

4. To go with that, they are also going to kill the "international warranty" in Australia. Recent changes to the law have meant that they don't have to provide the international warranty... It combines with the price restructure to essentially force us to buy Australian stock. We asked about lenses that we currently have (I think my 70-200 is a grey import...:confused but he said they weren't any different. Those of us with a lot of grey L series glass were rather annoyed....

Interesting but I wouldn't take 1 and 2 as gospel as Canon traditionally play their cards very close to their chests with regard to new releases and the reps often don't hear about new releases until an hour or two (if that) before the press releases go out.

JustinLawrence wrote in post #11999978
Pick your Porsche
Only the Carrera RS (bottom left) is for sell.

http://img862.imagesha​ck.us/img862/8237/img4​573web.jpg
You guys can't get anything right, can you? Oversized image changed to link.

Jon

blackshadow wrote in post #12000295
Very nice Dave but I think this might be more appropriate...

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