Soldato
He gets camera tomorrow, Lens Tuesday.
Looking foward to picking up my canon incl lense for £1100
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He gets camera tomorrow, Lens Tuesday.
Even 1K though is probably below the proft margin for Canon and certainly less than the cost retailors will pay.
Some small chance it is a refurbished model, demo, or a prototype/tester.
Even if you bulk buyed 10,000 of the cameras from Canon I doubt the unit price would be anywhere close to 1K.
Hi dude, its brand new.. originally my mate ordered the wrong lens only compatible with another canon range which he quoted me £1200.00 for but as the price for MII Lens is more expensive I am getting it for £400, £1400 in total with a few other goodies, post pics tomoz ..
Man of Honour
All I have to say is I hope that you will be entrering each month in the OcUK Photography competition 
Caporegime
I thought the 5d2 kit with the 24-105 L comes in 1 single box ?
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All I have to say is I hope that you will be entrering each month in the OcUK Photography competition
Certainly not for a good while yet...
The exact lens I am getting is EF 24-105mm L IS USM..
Caporegime
Which is a Kit lens for the 5D2.
You stated that you are buying the 5D2 with a Kit lens for £1,100, which you got confused the 17-85 with the 24-105 L. That bit is fine, but what is confusing is why the lens come separately. That only can happen if you are not getting the Kit. Which brings me to a series of questions.
So you are getting the 5D2 body only for £1,100
and a 24-105 for £300.
Am I correct?
If that is correct then your friend/supplier is telling porkies when he said you are getting a "kit lens" ? As it wasn't going to be a kit at all in the first place it seems.
Anyway....if you can get a individual lens cheap, instead of the 24-105, I'd get the 24-70.
Associate
If he gets them that cheap why not a 400 f/2.8 or a 600 f/4?
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Its not at all possible to get the 5D sub £1900 (and dont go finding prices a tad cheaper.)
If you really are getting one for that price then its knocked off.
If you really are getting one for that price then its knocked off.
Trade price will be lower than that, although I'd doubt it's as low as 1000 notes, so if he's got an insider then it is possible.
Soldato
If anything its just going to be a 5D MK1 surely? 
Soldato
he's already got the 1200 f/1.2 so why bother?
Interesting that you can get the 24-105 for £400 though (or there abouts), makes me wonder why all these camera shops are still competing at the £800 mark. If I were you, i'd be starting up a business. If you can get stuff that cheap, i'd quite happily help you setup a web shop, with a 50% margin we should be able to do quite well.
Soldato
Seems like a lot of money to pay for a camera.
Does it make tea?
What does it have that a standard DSLR does not have?
Seems to me that the price determines how "good" the camera is.
Buying a Ferrari does not make you a better driver.
Does it make tea?
What does it have that a standard DSLR does not have?
Seems to me that the price determines how "good" the camera is.
Buying a Ferrari does not make you a better driver.
A full frame sensor
Soldato
so you'll just handed over a grand to a 'colleague' at 7am in the morning. Well that doesn't sound dodgy at all.
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Beginning to think more that he's not getting it from someone who works for canon either cos he wouldn't have made the mistake about the lens fittings.
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