Cameras & Camcorders

[ROGERWILCO357]

man only the stores in the lets say gifted area's high income district carry the good stuff medium income gets the lower end of the stick why?  Had to drive 30 minutes out of my way to buy the 5dmkii ..

[RealGeorgeW Emerging Expert]

Hate to say it, but supply/demand of each store dictates what they carry.

[Entropy]

As George said, supply and demand.

Not a single Best Buy anywhere near me carries the 5D MkII, not even the larger cities like Syracuse and Scranton - the store that carries it is the exception not the norm.

Nothing is preventing you from using  the "Ship to store" option on bestbuy.com...

[Rrrrrrr]

Heck you cant even get Nikons flagship D3x from BB.

[ROGERWILCO357]

yeah had to buy it online but they should have them in all the stores not just one or two . They do write them off and who knows how many people would buy them if they could hold them see them and just have that product call to them. I buy alot of stuff once i have tried them or seen them and go wow I like that 15 minutes later I buy what i really like and they aren't cheap. Yeah I could go amazon or any of the many sites that do online sales . Sometimes i just want to see the item in person before dropping over a thousand dollars on it..oh well

[bobberuchi]

Best Buy offers thousands more products available on line than are available directly in a store. 

They are not going to carry a $3500 camera on the shelves simply because a given store might sell one or less a year.  Then you have an expensive demo model on the display.  

I would also tend to think that people in the market for a Canon 5D are not beginners or amateurs.   A person in the market to buy a 5D knows they want to buy a 5D because it is a 5D and they know what they are getting.  5 minutes touching one in a store isn't going to make much of a difference.

It really is to expensive of an item for a store to carry in stock for the amount of them they are going to sell.

[Rrrrrrr]

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bobberuchi wrote:

Best Buy offers thousands more products available on line than are available directly in a store. 

They are not going to carry a $3500 camera on the shelves simply because a given store might sell one or less a year.  Then you have an expensive demo model on the display.  

I would also tend to think that people in the market for a Canon 5D are not beginners or amateurs.   A person in the market to buy a 5D knows they want to buy a 5D because it is a 5D and they know what they are getting.  5 minutes touching one in a store isn't going to make much of a difference.

It really is to expensive of an item for a store to carry in stock for the amount of them they are going to sell.

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Well said.

Although last fall at the racetrack, I had a guy come up to me asking how to change the white balance on his D700. Said this was his 1st dslr and bought it because all the reviews on it.  I was wondering for about 10 min why this guy was staring at me when I was shooting. Probably trying to see what brand my camera was so he could ask. Came up when he seen I had a nikon (no I dont use the OEM straps so theres no Nikon sewn on. hate them).

[bobberuchi]

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Rrrrrrr wrote:

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bobberuchi wrote:

Best Buy offers thousands more products available on line than are available directly in a store. 

They are not going to carry a $3500 camera on the shelves simply because a given store might sell one or less a year.  Then you have an expensive demo model on the display.  

I would also tend to think that people in the market for a Canon 5D are not beginners or amateurs.   A person in the market to buy a 5D knows they want to buy a 5D because it is a 5D and they know what they are getting.  5 minutes touching one in a store isn't going to make much of a difference.

It really is to expensive of an item for a store to carry in stock for the amount of them they are going to sell.

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Well said.

Although last fall at the racetrack, I had a guy come up to me asking how to change the white balance on his D700. Said this was his 1st dslr and bought it because all the reviews on it.  I was wondering for about 10 min why this guy was staring at me when I was shooting. Probably trying to see what brand my camera was so he could ask. Came up when he seen I had a nikon (no I dont use the OEM straps so theres no Nikon sewn on. hate them).

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I think people also need to spend more time considering the lenses they may want to purchase when getting a DSLR.  You may go through several bodies and as you may have more money invested in the lens collection you are not going to change brands.  I talked to a friend of mine who is a professional and he told me to do just that.  He said the bodies on modern Canon and Nikon cameras are in reality going to be very similar in performance and someone would have a very hard time comaring the output of the same scene with the two brands.  However, your lens can make a world of difference. 

[xl]

On the topic of lenses... do research the lens prices between the makes.  You might find one brand offers significant savings compared to others.

• 18-300mm?
• 28-300mm?
• 70-200mm?
• fish eye?

Also don't confuse entry or slow lenses with the more expensive f/2.8 versions.  Canon identifies their high-end lenses by painting them white with an "L" designation for Luxury.  Nikon lenses have a gold ring (called black-gold) and often have an ED designation for the coating.

[bobberuchi]

I found a number of my favorite lenses at an a popular online auction site.  With carefull watchign and filtering you can find lots of decent to good gear.

One of my favorite finds was a used set of  35mm camera gear. 20mm f/2.8, 50mm f/1.4 and a manual focus zoom along with  an old Nikon camera all for $85.  Also some filters, a bag and various oddities.  I verified the camera worked, cleaned it up and resold it on the auction site for $30

The seller was upgrading to DSLR and apparently was not aware that his lenses would work on  the new camera.  Someone told him the sensor on the DSLR was to small to work with the old lenses.