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I just got my UPS tracking number for my B&H order!
Slow Processing
A large number of users have indicated a 200 to 300% slow down when compared to LR3. It is found in many areas of work but most annoying when sliders respond very slowly or when importing work. There has been no recognition from Adobe this is something they are working on.
- The metering is phenomenal - and while some have complained of the DR, it seems I'm able to recover a heck of a lot more highlights than I could from my 5D2 images. Whether this is improved functions of LR4, or better metering of the 5D3 is hard to tell at this point.
I liked the ones with the sunset clouds in the background. [/list]
Sweet! I guess the next step is for the Warehouse to verify the stock for our preorders. I guess the Warehouse will determine on which wave our shipments will be done.
I pre-ordered at 25 minutes past midnight on March 2nd. My order ends in 528XX.
My order status now says "In stock, order sent to warehouse"!!!
I have just called B&H to ask about switching my preorder from body only to kit. Not because I think I'll get it quicker but because since I placed the order I have thought more about what I already knew about my lenses... that is neither a 17-40mm or a 70-300L make good general lenses for a full frame camera.i was told the opposite from adorama, if i switch to the kit i would loose my place in line
Anyways back to ther reason for posting.
The guy at B&H said that changing from body to kit will NOT change my relative place in line.
My order has been updated and it now has a new cost but the order number has remained the same. He says I should gte it early next week. As for if he meant they'll ship it then or that I'll actually get my sticky paws on it then... I didnt think to ask. I guess even if youre in the first batch presuming B&H arent taking extra staff just to ship this there will be a time required to fill all the orders. If Canon dumps a whole mountain of 5d3's on them they still need to be processed, packed and shipped.
Now I think about it logically (from the limited information I have
So basically its not like lines of people at counters in a food court... you dont have to join the back of the noodle line if you decide you want to get noodles not pizza
DISCLAIMER: This is just an analogy... This is not how it works in the food court in the mall... trying to join the noodle line in the middle may result in you getting a punch in the face!
Of course depending on where your mall is results may vary... you may either just get frowned at or you may get stabbed... neighbourhoods can be really different in this respect. :-)
B&H sells too much stuff and they don't care about a "small" portion of 5d3 users. Instead local or smaller camera stores who treasure every single customer, are doing a much better job.
Maybe all the guys who pre-ordered 5D3 from B&H should go onto google Review and start leaving negative comments, heh.
I was finding the comments here amusing. Now, I just find them utterly ridiculous.
Before smearing a reputable chain, consider this. When you pre-ordered from B&H, when did you expect them to ship the camera? There are only two reasonable answers to this question: 1) when they received them; 2) March 22. At time of pre-order, I was in the former camp, as no set date had been given upon which I could set my expectation. I think the 5D3 announcement said something about late March, so perhaps that was my expectation, but it was rather imprecise. Later, I started expecting March 22, mostly based on CR, which has consistently identified this date as both the date which Canon set for U.S. sales and shipments and the date that B&H specifically should be expected to ship.
The only legitimate complaint you might have is whether B&H could communicate more or better. My experience in business tells me that they shouldn't have communicated anything, as the timeline that they internally might be planning on depended critically on receiving a shipment 3/21 or 3/22 from Canon. Any communication to this effect would set expectations based on something out of their control. Worse, it risked putting Canon, their business partner, in a bad position. Suppose Canon missed the delivery. Then everyone here would be complaining about Canon, threatening (even more than now) to switch to Nikon. While B&H still might capture the Nikon business, they still have the reputation problem with Canon.
The above even ignores the possibility that B&H had to agree with Canon not to disclose a firm ship date. This agreement would have been in OUR (customers of B&H) best interest, as they might have agreed to this to get a larger initial alotment.
As I said elsewhere here. I'm anxious for this thing to get here. But, my expectation all along has been that it would ship from B&H as soon as they got it and that could be as early as 3/22. So far, there is NOTHING to cause me lose confidence in that expectation. Unlike smaller stores, B&H has a huge, well-earned reputation at stake with its large customer base and a beneficial (for us) relationship with Canon.
The lack of patience here rivals that of my 3-year old niece headed to Disneyworld. No, we're not there yet! But we're on the way and we'll get there when we get there!
) your place in line is likely determined by your order number (or time)... so as they fill the orders they will move along a list of order numbers (or times) not have a separate list for each product. I am of course presuming the guy wasnt lying and they are told just to say yes and get more money out people when the option is there, you need to presume these things to function in like but you never can be sure can you... You get to join the noodle line after the guy the joined the noodle line the same time you joined the pizza line... Heard from a camera dealer with good connection to the national Nikon people today, that Nikon initially was not happy with the 36MP sensor they got from Sony in terms of high MP. They wanted a smaller one, but Sony "convinced/forced/..." them to go with the 36MP one.
I called B&H a couple of minutes ago to change my shipping method to Overnight delivery. Asked them when they're going to have the camera in stock and the guy on the phone didn't know.
In any case, I hope that having modified the order won't send me to the bottom of the list!!!
On the other hand, hope rumors about retailers receiving kits first, and then bodies, isn't true because I ordered body only. lol
