George,that is one lovely image ,is there a touch of tonal colour in your edit. Mate again cheers for the help and finally some good news.
As promised canon have delivered the lens to store today YEEEEHHHHHHHAAAAAAA
,hopefully i'll get a wee chance to play at the weekend can't wait now to have it in my grubby mits.. It's been damn frustrating not being able to pick up ,I was simply grafting to far away and as I finished my work got loaded with more. and more ,They actually wanted me to travel to another job an hours away at the end of the day ,good building at chistmas,it is simply madness
Anyway, canon have got it to the shop when they said they would ,so fair play to canon, I strongly suspect I have a guy called Tim to thank, I haven't heard from the MD ,but I guess that is all mute now,in many ways i want to thank Tim,but honestly I can't for the life of me remember how I contacted him,too many tries at this I'm at a loss, so Tim if you did this and read this(I dunno he might) thank you so so much !!
but it's here guys ,well nearly and I'm thrilled and finally I can say something cool about canon which is really what I wanted from the off,,ha ha bliss
That’s a really nice shot.
I’m hoping to get this lens in a couple of years time as a retirement present to myself, hopefully there’ll be some in stock by then!
Chris I honestly think things will always be a bit like this with this lens, it's a low volume very specialist product. It's just after reading all this you will be armed as will Martin,so if nowt else I hope this will never happen to anyone else here,have the best retirment mate I feel like I've earned two of them at the moment lol !!
Is this lack of customer service normal for high end Canon lenses or is the 400DO a rare beast? I'm sure that after all the hastle, when you do get the lens, you will be over the moon. Most amateurs can only dream of such a lens.
I have never used one, but when I was in kingfisher hide in the summer, one of the regulars had a 400DO mark 1 and his shots were great.
Archie I just don't know this is my first dealing with a brand new purchase on this scale. Archie I've been told that things can be tricky. there is obviously a glitch in their system they doon't seem to know whats coming to EU until it hits EU. This lens is not made in huge quantities,in fact if what I have read is correct and I have remembered it correctly I think there is a team of something like 4 incredibly talented individuals making this. (If anyone knows better please chime in. So there could be reasons why all this has happened,which is hard to take with a 6K product as the guy waiting .
Mate exactly this I really am an amateur that could only dream of a lens like this. i've just grafted my socks off tis all for that dream ,two years learning a trade after pretty much years of poverty as a care worker. two years of having my earning robbed by the guy I worked for. then eventually I ripped hima new one ,nearly ended in court and started over. I can honestly say I went out to work one morning and came back tomoorw,it is this level of effort that has gone into this and in many ways thats why all the nonsense has been so hard to take . I've earnt this actually by the meter cold hard graft To then be messed about after all those hours grafting on building sites and all the crap that goes with that is pretty harsh. But lets not go back I will have it tomorrow and simply can't wait
bring it on huh
I find using Twitter a great tool for getting a company to communicate.
Have you tried this?
Obviously I don't need to now ,but no I try to avoid that and face ache I don't really understand either ,it's too transient ,on fora I can learn,knowledge stays around
cheers for the thoughts though, much appreciated
I see CVP are giving 10% off all L series lenses and 3 year warranty!!
Mate thanks again good init
finally I can be me again and stop moaning. Buddy I think the offers are wide spread I came across them last night somewhere but not cvp,I'm shattered George not much is sticking at this time. I'm not sure where I saw it.
One thing that has been of concern is the 3 year warranty from canon.. George one has to register the serial number with canon, withing 30days of purchase,to grab that extra than normal warranty. I think i'm going to be just inside that but without checking I am unsure at this time. I guess you'll understand i'm pretty damn upbeat and distracted. But that is my next hurdle and frankly I have been dreading what might happen if the lens was delivered out side that 30day window,I'm sure canon would honour it,but I don't relish trying to communicate with them much at this time it's so hard and time consuming more than anything else. I'd just like to fill out the online form and be done with it ,but it has been bugging me as I can do nothing without that serial no !!
So there we are finally my wait is nearly over,a little note for
LCE........... on the phone the minute the lens landed,the young guy he's called Josh, whom has done all he could for me, excited as hell for me bless him.
thanks Josh thanks George and finally thanks canon
OOORRRAAA
seeya
Stu
PS Martin please forgive I missed you out. sorry mate I'm a basket case right now/ I'll try to give you some thoughts I can only compare to a 300 2.8is though,which maybe( later mk2 version) should also be on your radar,that 2.8 can be useful in blighty with our light,but for me I felt that bit more reach would be a bigger advantage,we'll see. Frankly i can't wait ! Driving past my hare spot betwixt sites and seeing one bounding through the snow early last week was no easy thing. but maybe I'll get another chance of the old white stuff featuing in an image of mine , soon,who knows?? I'm so so glad all this is over and I can finally turn to talking about this amazing product with both want to own take care kiddo