My Canon A1 is ...........

Jay Rodriguez

Jay Rodriguez

Coffee Member
According to UPS: 11/21/2006 8:15 A.M. OUT FOR DELIVERY


Yeah baby, it'll be at my house in a couple of hours!

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Jay, please tell us the details of your invoice -- did you have to buy ANYTHING additional? Warranties or anything? Or did you legitimately just give them $3500+shipping and that's it?
 
Good question... I paid #3,499 for the camera, something like $110 for a 10 hour battery as the one in the box is only an hour or two and like 30 or 40 bucks for shipping... also NO tax... :)

That was all..

I also grilled the guy about it being a legit camera and not a grey market item. He was very open to answering my questions and reassured me a few times that they were an authorized outfit of Canon.

As for the warranty, it comes with the standard 1 year Canon warranty and they also offered an extended 2 and 4 year plan.
 
that's correct, the total came exactly to $3,657

no extra cash for warranty or anything (besides an extra battery and shipping)
 
Just a note...I purchased a big battery also for my A1..one flaw.once it goes into the camera it is very hard to take it out since it is in a slot with very little room to grab it from the side to slide it out. I just solved it by getting one of those cheap plastic kitchen hooks that has a sticky bottom and attached it to the battery. I then just shoot with the camera door open and being carefull no the break the door off.
 
smithy said:
Just a note...I purchased a big battery also for my A1..one flaw.once it goes into the camera it is very hard to take it out since it is in a slot with very little room to grab it from the side to slide it out. I just solved it by getting one of those cheap plastic kitchen hooks that has a sticky bottom and attached it to the battery. I then just shoot with the camera door open and being carefull no the break the door off.
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Ive seen this reported a few times. The large Battery I have is the Canon 970G and I am not having his issue.
 
Barry if these turn out as Grays can we have a sticky on this topic, shame to think people buy in confidence and end up without any form of warranty. I for one am keen to see they price stay legitimate.

Its been mentioned before that the A1 box comes out unsealed. Thus I guess pretty easy to slip in a dodgy US warranty card. I sure hope this isnt the practice, but the stories I have read about the Brooklyn stores are sometimes much worse.

P.S. Barry once again thanks for supporting the growing A1/G1 community.
 
For reference my Legit Japan version serial looks like this 571302000200 then next to it is 06 Year (in japanese)
 
ncje said:
Barry if these turn out as Grays can we have a sticky on this topic, shame to think people buy in confidence and end up without any form of warranty. I for one am keen to see they price stay legitimate.
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We'll definitely spread the word. I don't see how it will turn out to be gray though since they're an authorized dealer, but it would be very nice if someone could figure out how to tell the US models apart from other territories...


P.S. Barry once again thanks for supporting the growing A1/G1 community.
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We're glad to have filmmakers of all persuasions here. It's DVXUser, but we all know the DVX isn't going to reign forever, and we're not going to be exclusively DVX... and now that other companies are producing attractive products, we're going to try to all happily co-exist this time... :thumbsup:
 
Battery Issues

Battery Issues

The aftermarket (non canon) large case batteries WILL stick in the slot FYI. my You "MAY" be able to shave some of it off so it slides out easier, but I am not suggesting anything.
 
Barry_Green said:
We'll definitely spread the word. I don't see how it will turn out to be gray though since they're an authorized dealer, but it would be very nice if someone could figure out how to tell the US models apart from other territories...



We're glad to have filmmakers of all persuasions here. It's DVXUser, but we all know the DVX isn't going to reign forever, and we're not going to be exclusively DVX... and now that other companies are producing attractive products, we're going to try to all happily co-exist this time... :thumbsup:
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Hell YES.
 
Ok, it's official.... THEY'RE LEGIT!

I was on the phone with a Canon rep and he confirmed evrything and registered the camera for me as well..... This is really cool....
 
WOOT!!! Good going, Jay/Coffee!!!

Way to go for it, y0. And it paid off. You son of a -- happy A1 Owner. Go get some footage and bring it back, please.
 
Thats great news Coffee im really happy to hear that. Hey Coffee are all the accesories there:

• Compact Power Adapter
• DC Coupler
• Battery Pack
• Shoulder Strap
• WL-D5000 Wireless Controller
• Adapter Holder
• Component Video Cable
• Stereo Video Cable
• 1-Year Parts and Labor Warranty

I'm happy you didn't get stuck with a gray market camera
 
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