> > Yesterday I attended a Camera Show/Swap in Toronto, there were > > about 50-100 > > vendors selling alot of gear. One guy had at least 4 A2Es at $500 each >no > > tax another had a EOS 5 with grip very clean for $800 and still > > another with > > a Refurb 7E with 1 yr Canon war. for $500 if anyone can shed some light >on > > the general reliabilty of gear from these type of shows it would > > be greatly > > appreciated. All prices in $CDN
Hi Russell, I have no direct answer to your question but I have bought some used Canon EOS stuff and here are some comments: The things I did buy second-hand are EOS-50E, EOS-3 (2 of them), 24/2.8, 35/2, 50/1.8mkI, 100/2 and 200/2.8mkI. Oh yes and like new Sigma 20/1.8 EX DG. I have had two problems with these: 1) Sometimes the 24/2.8 refuces to communicate with the body whatever I try. Only that lens. It is old but in a good shape. I suspect some capacitor in it is at the end of its life or something similar. It doesn't help if I reconnect it several times. Then I forget it for some time and try again and everything works fine. Started that about 1-2 years after the purchase. 2) The much used EF 100/2 stopped focusing. Or not quite, actually it started to jam and MF was worse than AF. I disassembled it couple times so far that I had the aperture mechanism in my hand but since I didn't have tool to remove the rear lens assembly I took it in service. For about 100E they made CLA for it and now it seems to work very well. They also removed most of the dust from inside. I'm happy. Vesa _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
