GKPE 6 - 3 years on

jasestu wrote in post #7390853
Finally, have some workable options...
1. Buy $220 worth of insurance to cover the transit
2. Wait until March 9th when a friend is heading up
3. Risk it and post today.

Option 1 costs money. Option 2 cuts it a bit fine time wise - Canon say (over the phone) current turn-around is 10-15 working days. If that 15 is a genuine upper limit then fine, but it does only leave 3 days before I depart... And option 3 is, well, risky.

Actually, option 4:
4. Wait until March 9th when a friend is heading up, but pay for "priority service" and extra hour of labour at $135 for an indeterminately quicker turnaround.

Why don't you get insurance for your gear anyway. If you are thinking of travelling with it then a good policy would be worth it. I have all my stuff insured against breakage, theft etc and it isn't that expensive.

somethingsimple wrote in post #7392991
seems section 92A has been delayed a month...
commonsense may yet prevail

Huh?????

THe Copyright Act

akiwi wrote in post #7393170
Why don't you get insurance for your gear anyway. If you are thinking of travelling with it then a good policy would be worth it. I have all my stuff insured against breakage, theft etc and it isn't that expensive.

Ah, I do, but it doesn't cover if I courier it. It's a common exception to a lot of policies.

lil_miss wrote in post #7393396
THe Copyright Act

NZ thing. Hence the few black avatars around

weka2000 wrote in post #7391008
Dumb question: who does canon use to ship goods back?

Canon NZ's entire shipping system is based entirely on DHL.

somethingsimple wrote in post #7392991
seems section 92A has been delayed a month...
commonsense may yet prevail

Promising...

jasestu wrote in post #7393443
NZ thing. Hence the few black avatars around

Simple but concise answer.

Photo anyone.
I took my Studio gear to a huge indoor BMX park near where I live.
The kids there are amazing to watch.
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Nzshrimper wrote in post #7391869
as opposed to the ones on ..... pitch forks..... ??

Haha, I think rocky road does come in ice cream boxes too.

akiwi wrote in post #7393798
Photo anyone.
I took my Studio gear to a huge indoor BMX park near where I live.
The kids there are amazing to watch.
1.

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Fabu-awesome-age

iKirst wrote in post #7394025
Fabu-awesome-age

Thanks Nursey Kirsty.

Peter you always think outside the box ........ nice work. Much work setting it all up?

Good effort Peter. Not the easiest of places to set up a mini-studio I'd guess. I keep wishing to see a bit of ambient light in there, but I dunno if that's because it needs it, or if I'm using to seeing all skate/BMX photos like that!

The hall is huge and full of ramps and jumps etc.
I just set up my lights around the jumps and photographed as they jumped over them.

Dave I dropped the ambient on purpose as it was Ugly...
See here.

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Her_B4 wrote in post #7382098
Hey you made it!! Great stuff . Had no idea what you looked like so don't know if we crossed paths or not.

Thanks Crissie. Kept looking around but couldn't find anybody matching the description you gave . Was good fun and enjoyed it a lot.

How did your weekend go?

manipula wrote in post #7385227
In other news, after double and triple checking today, ......... Definitely no lens price increases as of March 1st.

Well, just to be on the save side, I purchased a couple of lenses today,.......

From OPSM

Mark Vuleta wrote in post #7394172
From OPSM

You know the rules... aperture and zoom range please

Mark Vuleta wrote in post #7394172
From OPSM

LOL

and do they take a 1.4 TC