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Oct 6, 2020 12:30:27   #
pithydoug Loc: Catskill Mountains, NY
 
zcarxrg wrote:
It appears Canon is shipping to vendors but B&H has a problem with matching order dates to shipments or their algorithm is not based just on the camera. My order is 5 weeks old but I also have a backordered EF to RF adapter with control ring and a backordered express card and reader on the order. There is also the possibility the shipping dept. has no clue on shipping orders based on date and B&H doesn't want to spend resources helping those with the oldest orders get their cameras first. I am considering calling in and separating the orders. I can't shoot without an EF to RF adapter but can workaround the card reader. Some people have been waiting for over two months, others have their cameras in two weeks. Having seen how corporations make a grab for the immediate money one might assume they could be filling based on the profit each order provides. Adapter availability is also an issue unless you order one with a polarizer filter. Selling EF to RF adapters does not not sell RF lenses so Canon may not have prioritized adapter manufacturing. Perhaps adapters that have been shipped have been set aside for earlier orders... There is also the simple possibility that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
It appears Canon is shipping to vendors but B&... (show quote)


An awful lot sour grapes and assumptions based simply on opinions. Blame B&H for not able to handle the order? This in not their first rodeo! The cog in delivery is Canon not meeting demands. And as hard as we look we don't really know why. Was is COVID the thorn or unsuspected demand, neither or both.

As as side bar, adapters may not sell RF lenses but they such as hell sell a lot of bodies which will in turn down the line sell more lenses. I bought the R5 for the advanced camera technology AND being able to use my EF lenses. I'll ease into the RF lenses as time passes. Did you expect them to wait until they had dozens of lenses ready before the announced the body? Their manufacturing strategy was correct but demand overlook production.

Your diatribe is opinion lacking facts bundled in negativity.

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Oct 6, 2020 13:32:40   #
zcarxrg Loc: Corpus Christi
 
You have not read the other posts. One person notes waiting for over two months but does not have a camera. Another person reports getting the camera in two weeks. A third person states having an order then changing the order to an R6 and then changing back to the R5 and getting it in about two weeks.

Maybe the posters have not true provided facts....

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