Worth being one of the first with a new camera?

[Flake]

No doubt when the 5D MkII replacement is announced there will be a rush of preorders, for what will almost certainly be a very desireable camera, but what are the drawbacks of doing this.

The price is at its maximum, give a month or two and discounting will reduce the price by hundreds of £ or $

Early teething problems may appear that are addressed in later models such as the black dots, or the focus issue of the 1D MkIII

No RAW support for some time. It seems to take an age for software providers to update to the latest cameras, being without photoshop is a real PITA waiting for them to release the next ACR update, and sometimes they don't release one, making you buy a new version of the software.

Of course the upside is that you get your hot little hands on the latest tech before everyone else, and the camera you sell to fund it probably fetches a little more.

I think on balance though, I shall wait, I can't deal with having to convert all the files to .dng before they can be processed, and the length of time that adds to workflow.

 

[iaind]

No doubt when the 5D MkII replacement is announced there will be a rush of preorders, for what will almost certainly be a very desireable camera, but what are the drawbacks of doing this.

The price is at its maximum, give a month or two and discounting will reduce the price by hundreds of £ or $

Early teething problems may appear that are addressed in later models such as the black dots, or the focus issue of the 1D MkIII

No RAW support for some time. It seems to take an age for software providers to update to the latest cameras, being without photoshop is a real PITA waiting for them to release the next ACR update, and sometimes they don't release one, making you buy a new version of the software.

Of course the upside is that you get your hot little hands on the latest tech before everyone else, and the camera you sell to fund it probably fetches a little more.

I think on balance though, I shall wait, I can't deal with having to convert all the files to .dng before they can be processed, and the length of time that adds to workflow.

Totally agree.
When price and specs are released, given Canon's new pricing structure, it will be interesting to compare 1DX with 5DII replacement. Wait 6 months or so until all pre-orders/initial rush has passed, then buy when price has dropped in line with demand and teething troubles have been ironed out

 

[BlueMixWhite]

With the latest model, once posted on Flickr you will get like hundreds of view. Priceless?

 

[Loswr]

As you point out, there have been some issues with early production runs. Seems Canon made them right for affected users, at least.

As for RAW conversion, there's DPP.

With the latest model, once posted on Flickr you will get like hundreds of view.

That's certainly true. I received an early S100, did a comparison test against the S95, and got >10K views in a day.

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

I got my 5D MK II in the first batch at the start of December 2008. I've been able to use it a year or more longer than many who waited. The only issue of any consequence was the black dots, which could be viewed when you photographed a string of bright lights. For my photos, they generally never appeared, and, when they did, could only be noticed by those looking closely for them.

I'm really not concerned about getting the first of a new model. All will have some minor issues that will be fixed.

In the case of the 1DX, I'm waiting to see what the 5D MK III beings. The main issue I want is better low light high Iso performance. Once I can see some real images in raw and verify that I can get significantly better performance, I'll order. I've viewed the D800 Raw Images, and they look to be 1/2 - 1 stop better than my 5D MK II, so thats encouraging.

 

[AshtonNekolah]

anyone thinks with the release of the newer models, and uploading via flicker and youtube video shooting, that there will be a major hit as to the hype, i mean at the end of the day everything tends to get edited anyway, and even thou the quality is there, are there any computers from the average user that can print that quality as to be a night and day comparison, well i for one don't think so, the average user really don't care about all this quality hinge as for the pro's this only separates us from the crowd, but even so for the process is far more over the hill that what we can get out of it as is.
I see this happening anytime something new comes out, i mean lets be real here before there was 5d mark 2 there was the original 5D classic and even at that time when I had mine was the same story. Also even thou its all fine and dandy to talk about all the new tech on the cameras, there will always be a newer model any, I fine that we should concentrate more on fulling mastering our current technology and use it to its max vs letting the cameras think for us and making our decisions, cameras of today are fully functional computers with a glass on the front, its cool all the way to have these computers doing some work but after all its only a tool and a master at what you do, will always over power the tool. Like the saying goes, control your camera don't let your camera control you.
We will be having this same debate in 5 more years from now. The mark 2 will be a fine camera for another 10years +.