OFFICIAL: CANON EOS 5D Mark III - User Thread - Part 3
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Hi, All 5D3 brothers, need you help me to do a choice.
My choice is quite tough to be made: which shop to go between CP and TK? I have experiences bought gears with both of the shop.
I read through this post and above two are falling down on my buy list.
Thanks your help and I have no intention to A-Z the two shops and any other shops.
Yep, since its tough I will thank you so much even I'm PMed. Thanks.
My choice is quite tough to be made: which shop to go between CP and TK? I have experiences bought gears with both of the shop.
I read through this post and above two are falling down on my buy list.
Thanks your help and I have no intention to A-Z the two shops and any other shops.
Yep, since its tough I will thank you so much even I'm PMed. Thanks.
Eh..sorry but after reading your post a few times, i still have no idea what you were asking.
spinworkxroy said:
In summary: Buy from which shop better? CP or TK? I don't want to check through all the shops so if you can PM me it would be good.
My answer: Whichever shop has stocks at a price you are prepared to pay and whichever shop has a sales person who you feel isn't going to chop you.
Actually price is king. Second followed by service. If shop gives me good price but lousy service, I might buy. If shop gives me good service but lousy price I likely won't buy.
I walked in both shops many times, and always get cold service and lousy price, so I never buy. I buy all my stuff now from SLRR. Good service better price.
Don't flame me. I know some csers swears by tk, some cp. Me? SLRR lor.
I walked in both shops many times, and always get cold service and lousy price, so I never buy. I buy all my stuff now from SLRR. Good service better price.
Don't flame me. I know some csers swears by tk, some cp. Me? SLRR lor.
crysmeth said:
Depends to be honest. Price does play a part but if the service is sucky, I am prepared to walk away. However if service is very good yet price is high, I would ALSO walk away.
The key I suppose is to know what is a fair price to pay. Only way to know is to do your own homework!
Yah. Actually all you need is go funan and in one hour you got your answer.
2nd floor got tk, alan, then 4th got slrr , then 5th is john316. Still want to walk then peninsula is cp. Still want to ask can ask some less renoun (to me la). First floor funan got one quite new shop too. Can try courts or harvey. Wah Lao. Soooo many choices in one area. One hour got answer liao. If you happy with that guy, or sales girl pretty, or price cheap, you roughly know liao.
Then go whack lor. Once you buy your first camera from a shop, next time you got reference when need another camera. Like that lor. Quite bless all shops are nearby.
Unless you want ms la. That one amk Bo bian.
2nd floor got tk, alan, then 4th got slrr , then 5th is john316. Still want to walk then peninsula is cp. Still want to ask can ask some less renoun (to me la). First floor funan got one quite new shop too. Can try courts or harvey. Wah Lao. Soooo many choices in one area. One hour got answer liao. If you happy with that guy, or sales girl pretty, or price cheap, you roughly know liao.
Then go whack lor. Once you buy your first camera from a shop, next time you got reference when need another camera. Like that lor. Quite bless all shops are nearby.
Unless you want ms la. That one amk Bo bian.
I have the similar experience at TK as well. It depends who you get to serve you. So far James and Ark are good. 2 weeks ago, I when to TK first but James and Ark were not in. The salesperson did not bother much when I was not sure what Lens should I match. It was a weekday afternoon with just 1 other person in the shop.
I bought my 5D3 with 24-104 from Willy of SLRR 2 weeks ago.
After I told Willy that I want to buy 5d3 so that I can shoot my family outings in low light but I do not want to travel heavy. Willy patiently served me for an hour as I moved from 7D and not sure what lens should I take. He walked through the lens about weights, reach, aperture and cost.
I also bought the 17-40, 600ex-RT and some filters from SLRR as well.
Today I went to TK Photo and served by Ark. He patiently help me to decide whether to get the ST-E3-RT or Phoetix or Pocket Wizard. Finally I got the ST-E3-RT from him. Concurrently, Ark also patiently helped another customer to decide between a $20 or $23 UV filter for 50 1.8. I was really impressed by his service.
Later I went to SLRR. Cannot find a bag that does not look like a camera bag. Willy referred me to K-13 in Pennisular. bought a Billingham there.
So my opinion is that it is really about who is the salesperson that serve you.
I bought my 5D3 with 24-104 from Willy of SLRR 2 weeks ago.
After I told Willy that I want to buy 5d3 so that I can shoot my family outings in low light but I do not want to travel heavy. Willy patiently served me for an hour as I moved from 7D and not sure what lens should I take. He walked through the lens about weights, reach, aperture and cost.
I also bought the 17-40, 600ex-RT and some filters from SLRR as well.
Today I went to TK Photo and served by Ark. He patiently help me to decide whether to get the ST-E3-RT or Phoetix or Pocket Wizard. Finally I got the ST-E3-RT from him. Concurrently, Ark also patiently helped another customer to decide between a $20 or $23 UV filter for 50 1.8. I was really impressed by his service.
Later I went to SLRR. Cannot find a bag that does not look like a camera bag. Willy referred me to K-13 in Pennisular. bought a Billingham there.
So my opinion is that it is really about who is the salesperson that serve you.
Well said. So true about any organization (restaurants, banks, clothing, etc.). The reputation of the organization is dependent on the person that serves you.
The shutter count should be stored as a variable in EPROM (flash memory), like how firmware data is stored.
Technically, anybody (not only Canon) has the way to decode the number will be granted has the ability to encode the number. E.g., reset the shutter counter to zero.
Canon Shutter Count - EOSCount can read the count number ---- can or cannot write the counter number?
Don't know.
One thing I know, they can write the date and time to your camera.
I really think that this should be an upgrade to firmware so that we can simply go to a menu and find the lifetime shutter count of our cameras.
On the other hand, does the shutter counter include usage of video? If not, then that is not a good indicator of how used our cameras are. For 5D3, this is vital as many people are buying this camera for its video capabilities.
Haha, its true.
So anytime buy 2nd hand 5D2, just beware of the cameras bought years ago with low counts. It may be used as a video camera.
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