Sort of by accident I've ended up with a new camera: a Canon 5D Mark II. You see, it happened like this. We were in Myer buying a coffee grinder. Whilst Dennis researched the features of competing models and spoke with the sales staff, I wandered off a few metres to look at Myer's camera department: such a small camera department that I'd never think of buying something there. But I had been thinking about this camera particular type of camera for a while, and, as of last week, the Canon 5d Mark II was still sufficiently new and in short supply that you couldn't just see it sitting on camera store shelves: you got one when the store reached your number on their waiting list as stock slowly dribbled in.
But none of the people who had put their names down at places like Michaels, Teds, Camera Action, JB, Elizabeth Street Photography... had thought that Myer might get one of Canon's semi-pro cameras. But there it was. Just sitting there looking out of place amongst the point and shoots and Myer's smallish selection of SLRs.
I would have resisted buying it except for the fact that I ended up speaking to a salesperson to ask the price. And that led to a discount that seemed big in absolute terms, and then it came with this, and that, and after a while it seemed positively churlish not to buy it. Still, it was probably just a case of bringing the purchase date forward a little. I think I would have found it very hard to have gone up to Mount Buffalo at Easter without having purchased this new camera.
Oh, and the coffee grinder we got was a Sunbeam.
(Photo from the Botanic Gardens, turned to Monochrome with a green filter and toning effect in Canon Digital Photo Professional and curves/contrast edited in Paintshop Pro.) Comments (2)
Anthony Holmes January 9th, 2009 10:17:32 PM