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koffiejunkie said:
I think it's likely to get more expensive. Stuff gets imported in USD, which got stronger.
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Agree about the price increase. AFAIK, Canon and Nikon stuffies here are priced from Euro as we are serviced by Canon & Nikon in Europe (doesn't really matter as the Euro has also taken a dive against USD :().
 
Prices . . I'm hoping for some spectacular Black Friday specials.
 
*wonders when black friday is....

morning everyone

guys here is my question of the day...

when concidering buying a demo camera... what should you be looking out for? what questions do you ask? what needs to be checked etc... and whats the difference between a demo model and a 2nd hand unit?

*pours the coffee and waits.
 
mandana said:
*wonders when black friday is....

morning everyone

guys here is my question of the day...

when concidering buying a demo camera... what should you be looking out for? what questions do you ask? what needs to be checked etc... and whats the difference between a demo model and a 2nd hand unit?

*pours the coffee and waits.
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Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving when the xmas shopping season generally begins. Its generally utter chaos in the retail stores because there are massive sales. :)

EDIT - imo there isnt much of a difference between second hand and demo.
 
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mandana said:
when concidering buying a demo camera... what should you be looking out for? what questions do you ask? what needs to be checked etc... and whats the difference between a demo model and a 2nd hand unit?
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Demo should mean it's never been out the shop, and all and sundry could fiddle with it, and you have no idea how many pics have been taken. Second hand means someone has owned it, and you have no idea how he or she treated it, and you have no idea how many pics have been taken.

;)
 
mandana said:
when concidering buying a demo camera... what should you be looking out for? what questions do you ask? what needs to be checked etc... and whats the difference between a demo model and a 2nd hand unit?
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Take a few pictures in the shop to see that it generally works. Make sure you get a money back guarantee, so that you can take it back if you discover deeper problems later. Ask for at least two weeks (and make sure you shoot the living daylights out of it in those two weeks).

I bought the Pentax as a demo - turned out to be a very nice deal.

bwana said:
Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving when the xmas shopping season generally begins. Its generally utter chaos in the retail stores because there are massive sales. :)
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So called because for a lot of shops it's the day that they go from being in the red to being in the black (credit/debit).
 
koffiejunkie said:
So called because for a lot of shops it's the day that they go from being in the red to being in the black (credit/debit).
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The term originated in Philly, Pa - something to do with the traffic.
 
koffiejunkie said:
Oh? I didn't know that! Care to elaborate?
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Origin of the name "Black Friday"

The earliest uses of "Black Friday" come from or reference Philadelphia and refer to the heavy traffic on that day, an implicit comparison to the extremely stressful and chaotic experience of Black Tuesday (the 1929 stock-market crash). The earliest known reference to "Black Friday" (in this sense), found by Bonnie Taylor-Blake of the American Dialect Society, refers to Black Friday 1965 and makes the Philadelphia origin explicit:
JANUARY 1966 -- "Black Friday" is the name which the Philadelphia Police Department has given to the Friday following Thanksgiving Day. It is not a term of endearment to them. "Black Friday" officially opens the Christmas shopping season in center city, and it usually brings massive traffic jams and over-crowded sidewalks as the downtown stores are mobbed from opening to closing.[7]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)#Origin_of_the_name_.22Black_Friday.22
 
Are there any other websites that offer good reviews on DLSRs? I usually use dpreview.com and visit a few others, but how "reliable" is dpreview? Are they biased? So far I have based all my DLSR decisions on what I read on dpreview, but if they're not all that accurate, then I would like to read elsewhere.
 
mercurial said:
Are there any other websites that offer good reviews on DLSRs? I usually use dpreview.com and visit a few others, but how "reliable" is dpreview? Are they biased? So far I have based all my DLSR decisions on what I read on dpreview, but if they're not all that accurate, then I would like to read elsewhere.
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Rule of thumb (for me at least): Ignore *all* subjective comments in any review. One man's "fiddly" is another man's "intuitive" - you know how it goes. Read the details that's irrefutable fact, look at the sample images, then go try it out.

dpreview is about the most detailed reviews out there. I find that after reading their reviews, I don't find anything else I haven't already read.
 
Ok thanks. It's just a bit difficult to sometimes judge if what they are presenting are genuine, in terms of their samples etc... Most of their reviews indicates that Canon is better. Either that, or they are biased.
 
bwana said:
Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving when the xmas shopping season generally begins. Its generally utter chaos in the retail stores because there are massive sales. :)

EDIT - imo there isnt much of a difference between second hand and demo.
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mandana said:
*wonders when black friday is....

morning everyone

guys here is my question of the day...

when concidering buying a demo camera... what should you be looking out for? what questions do you ask? what needs to be checked etc... and whats the difference between a demo model and a 2nd hand unit?

*pours the coffee and waits.
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When I was looking for a camera (got it on saturday:p:D) I found out most demo models come with a 3 month warnt. Also IMO demo's are a bit of a safer buy unless you know the person atleast a little from which you are buying second hand(to be read as:"I don't know enough about cameras to tell when I am being BS'ed :p).
 
I found an interesting site that shows the write speeds of various DSLRs. You can select your camera from a drop-down list and it shows you the speeds at which the cameras wrote the images to the memory cards. There are many different types of cameras and memory cards used.

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/camera_multi_page.asp?cid=6007-9257

EDIT: It basically shows you that those amazing speeds that they promise, are only when you are transferring the images from the camera to the pc. You will probably never get those speeds at writing to the camera.
 
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