Posted by Rob Howard on April 29, 2007 at 11:58 AM
Hi All,
I have family visiting the States at the moment, and thought about asking them to bring me home a MKIII. But will a US version have all the correct plugs/voltage cables for over here and how will I get on with a US bought body with the warranty??
All help/advice gladly taken
Regards
Rob
Posted by Barry Southon on April 29, 2007 at 12:20 PM
Rob
My year is spent either side of the pond. Having bought equipment in USA often at least 33% to 65% price difference. A note of caution the warranty may well be restricted to the USA. Unless you purchase with a world-wide warranty cover. Well worth reading the small print. My daughter purchased a Canon in the USA and within a year a problem developed the warranty was not valid in the UK a small print oversight.
Don't know if the warranty will cover you in the UK. If the shop sold the camera to you then it would be a matter of you sending the camera back to them to get warranty work done on it, but when a third party becomes involved in the sale it gets a little muddy and normally ends up with there being no real warranty at all.
Canon lenses carry an international warranty, but I'm pretty certain that the bodies don't.
Good luck in trying to get one of the 1st mk111 bodies, any sources I've contacted in the states say that the earliest I could expect one would be about mid June.
Its a brave man that buys a body in the States for a first release camera... if it where me - I'd wait.
T
Posted by Adrian North on April 30, 2007 at 5:18 AM
A year or so ago I was wondering something similar so I called Canon UK and there take on the warranty issue was: Lenses come with a worldwide warranty so you can get them in the US but bodies come with a country specific warranty and as others have stated there will be problems if it goes wrong (unless you can afford to go back to the states to get it fixed )
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6 repliesI have family visiting the States at the moment, and thought about asking them to bring me home a MKIII. But will a US version have all the correct plugs/voltage cables for over here and how will I get on with a US bought body with the warranty??
All help/advice gladly taken
Regards
Rob
My year is spent either side of the pond. Having bought equipment in USA often at least 33% to 65% price difference. A note of caution the warranty may well be restricted to the USA. Unless you purchase with a world-wide warranty cover. Well worth reading the small print. My daughter purchased a Canon in the USA and within a year a problem developed the warranty was not valid in the UK a small print oversight.
That said I have been fortunate to date.
Kind regards
Barry
Kansas/ Eastbourne
Canon lenses carry an international warranty, but I'm pretty certain that the bodies don't.
Good luck in trying to get one of the 1st mk111 bodies, any sources I've contacted in the states say that the earliest I could expect one would be about mid June.
T
Adrian
Hope your family are going to be there until the end of the year 'cos that's the only chance I reckon they'll have of getting one to be frank.
In any event, with the known fault in the first batch... who wants one!
Barrie