Henry Posner/B&H Photo-Video wrote:
> No, and no. "Grey market" products are manufactured
> side-by-side with their
> USA-warranted kin and in fact the provenance of each product is not
> assigned until after then manufacture process is complete.
> So, the people
> manufacturing and assembling the product have no idea whether
> each item
> will eventually be "grey" or USA-warranted or whether it will
> be sold in a
> shop in New York or Hong Kong or Milan.
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Henry is right, but there are exceptions. Certain naming conventions are
for non-US markets (EOS-5 v. EOS A2e, or EOS 50e v. IIe) so in some
instances the manufacturer does know where the cameras are bound for. And
the label/name is not always the last piece to be assembled.
Peter K
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