Saturday, January 10, 2009

Canon 5D MKII

I finally found a distributor that had the 5D MKII kit in stock and priced at MSRP. Adorama and B&H are selling them at MSRP but both were out of stock. The other few vendors that had them in stock over the last month were charging $500-900 over MSRP. I was checking Canoga Camera on a daily basis and was surprised to see that they had stock one day. I bought my 5D MKI from them; good pricing, good service, quick to ship, so I quickly put the order in. They didn't have the battery grip in stock, so I bought it from B&H instead. I'm still waiting for the battery, which I have on back order with Adorama.

Canon also just released the 5D MKII firmware update to v1.0.7 to fix the black dot and banding issues.