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Title: Deal on Refurbished Canon 5D Mark II
Post by: WarrenPrice on August 05, 2010, 14:49

http://www.adorama.com/ICA5DM2R.html?utm_source=rflAID021866&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=Other&utm_term=Other (http://www.adorama.com/ICA5DM2R.html?utm_source=rflAID021866&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=Other&utm_term=Other)

Thought $2199 sounded like a good price.  Not sure about warranties on rebuilds?

Copied the link from Ken Rockwell's site.

Title: Re: Deal on Refurbished Canon 5D Mark II
Post by: fullvalue on August 05, 2010, 14:57

B & H has it for new for only $300 more.  Why take a chance on what essentially is a used camera?

Title: Re: Deal on Refurbished Canon 5D Mark II
Post by: WarrenPrice on August 05, 2010, 16:06

You're probably right.  Didn't realize prices had dropped that much.

Title: Re: Deal on Refurbished Canon 5D Mark II
Post by: lisafx on August 05, 2010, 17:17

I can't speak about B&H refurbs, but I did buy a couple of refurbs back when I got my 10D.  They were factory refurbished from Canon and came with all the bells and whistles like new. 

And three in a row were defective.  One had a big cluster of dead pixels, the next could not focus properly, and the third had really wonky flash system - sometimes wildly over exposing and sometimes not going off at all. 

I came to the conclusion that Canon must just be giving returns a quick once over and then repackaging them as refurbished.  I gave up on buying refurbished after that.