Did the Nikon D600 just cause Canon 5D-III's to become worth $749 less at retail??? I wonder what the heck is "up" with this price...it "looks" legit to me, but it's on eBay...I wonder if Adorama is using this eBay offer as a test of price/demand response, to see just how many dollars they can squeeze out of XXXX number of bodies and at what price point(s)...
I knew I was being wise waiting to purchase. Now if it just holds (or even drops a little more???) until I know what my end of year "bonus" is!!!
It's about time for it's initial price drop. I didn't think it would happen until after the first of the year.
My post was DEAD-SERIOUS...I was wondering, aloud, if maybe
Adorama is perhaps sitting on a literal "boatload" (well, let's say a couple of railroad car loads) of Canon 5D-III bodies...and wants to sell out from under them before the market goes south, due to the Nikon and Sony 24 megapixel and 36 megapixel madness...a LOT of "
END-USER TYPE" buyers buy by sheer MP count, and Nikon and SOny now have 24MP cameras,PLUS THE TWO 36MP D800 models, and that means the 5D-Three is now "out-mega-pixeled" in the minds of many "
end-user type" buyers. OR, perhaps that Canon 6D, or some other Canon camera, is much,much closer than we in the general public know, and
Adorama has a MASSIVE stockpile of 5D-Three bodies the need to clear out?
I was serious--maybe they want to see how much demand there is at, say $2,750 on
eBay...
Frankly, a LOT of people would love to have a full-frame d-slr...if the price for that is $2,196 for the brand new Nikon D600 via Amazon (a whopping $3 off list!!!), then a Canon 5D-III priced at $3,499, which is $500 above a 36MP Nikon D800, REALLY IS NOT THAT ATTRACTIVE to a lot of buyers...especially the kind of buyer who has no real system allegiance, or who is willing to go in a new direction. The original 5D premiered at $3499 as well; then hit $3199. Then $2999. Then like $2699 as I recall, for a LONG TIME. With Nikon's D800 selling very well at $2,999, it might just be that
Adorama wants to really MOVE some cameras, and $2,750 for a 5D Mark 3 sounds VERY attractive to a LOT of Canon users, I am sure! The way I SEE IT,
the 5D-III is a beautifully engineered, finely-made, AMAZING camera. Just demo one--you will IMMEDIATELY SEE that it is much more like a 1-series Canon than the earlier two incarnations, and it "feels" like it's worth a few hundred more dollars than the Nikon D600. If there is a battle in FF, D600 at $2,200 and 5D-III at $2,750, I am pretty sure that MANy pro and serious shooters would want the Canon more, at those two price points.
