Canon is suing well-known eBay sellers to stop grey import sales in the USA

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Photography Bay reports that Canon USA filed lawsuits against several well-known grey market retailers, among them Get It Digital and All New Shop. This appears to be an effort to stop these retailers from selling imported, and hence often significantly discounted, Canon DSLRs in the USA.

Both cases have been filed at the New York Eastern District Court, Canon U.S.A. Inc. v. Get It Digital LLC et al and Canon U.S.A. Inc. v. F & E Trading LLC et al, on October 20, 2015. Photography Bay claims to have copies of the complaints filed by Canon. According to Photography Bay, Canon sees the following possible harms for customers:

  • Using counterfeit serial numbers on gray market Canon products
  • Lack of enforceable warranties or inferior warranty coverage
  • Packaging that does not accurately describe the products contained therein
  • The inclusion of cheap photocopies of product operating manuals, as opposed to genuine manuals that accompany genuine Canon cameras
  • Power supplies and accessories that are counterfeit, manufactured by third partes and/or not compliant with applicable laws, regulations and certifications

The most worrying of the allegations listed above is the possibility of counterfeit serial numbers, and all what it might imply.

Please note: Some of the retailers Canon is suing have been featured here in the past. Given these news I can no longer recommend these retailers. However, in all these years I heard only one complaint from customers, and it was about being late with shipping.

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Black Friday Deals: Refurbished Canon Rebel T5 with 18-55mm IS II at $199.99 (Canon Store, reg. $440)

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The Canon Direct Store has a Black Friday deal on refurbished Canon Rebel T5 with EF-S 18-55mm IS II lens. The kit is on sale at $199.99 (instead of $439.99). Use code HUSH4-1Z6J2JU at check-out. More deals on refurbished Canon gear:

Rebel T5 overview after the break.

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Canon EOS 70D bundle deal, PRO-100 photo printer, 16GB, bag, more stuff – $997

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Pretty good Canon EOS 70D deal by authorised Canon dealer B&H Photo. The bundle includes:

  • EOS 70D body
  • PIXMA Pro-100 printer
  • Spare battery
  • Canon paper
  • Camera bag
  • 16GB memory card

The bundle is on sale at $997 after $350 mail-in rebate (info). If you are comfortable with mail-in rebates, then this may be the deal for you. The price is hard to beat.

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There is also a similarly bundled Canon Rebel T5i deal with the EF-S 18-135mm IS STM lens on sale at $857 after mail-in rebate. Or you may aim higher and get another rich bundle deal on the Canon EOS-1D X, on sale at $4,249.

Canon commemorates production of 80 millionth EOS-series interchangeable-lens camera

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Another big achievement for Canon: 80 million EOS SLRs, DSLRs and MILCs produced since 1987. Kudos Canon! Press text (German):

Canon commemorates production of 80 millionth EOS-series interchangeable-lens camera

TOKYO, November 18, 2015—Canon Inc. announced today the achievement of a new camera-manufacturing milestone as combined production of the Company’s film and digital EOS-series interchangeable-lens cameras surpassed the 80-million mark on November 10, 2015. The 80-millionth EOS camera produced was an EOS 5DS R, which boasts the world’s highest pixel count in its class.1

Production of Canon EOS SLR cameras began in 1987 at Canon Inc.’s Fukushima Plant (now Fukushima Canon Inc.), later moving to such production bases as Oita Canon Inc. and Canon Inc., Taiwan. Production rapidly increased following the spread of digital SLR cameras in the early 2000s and the Company is now commemorating a new milestone: the production of its 80-millionth EOS camera.

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Adobe release Lightroom 6.3/Lightroom CC 2015.3, new Canon cams and lot of lenses added

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Adobe released Lightroom 6.3/Lightroom CC 2015.3. Support for the latest Canon cameras has been added, as well as for a big set of Canon pro lenses and third party lenses for Canon mount (list after the break). You can download the update though the built-in function, or make a direct download:  Windows | Mac.

Lightroom CC 2015.3 and Lightroom 6.3 are now available on Adobe.com.  The goal of this release is to provide additional camera raw support, lens profile support and address bugs that were introduced in previous releases of Lightroom.  This release also restores the Import experience available prior to Lightroom 6.2.

Thank you for all your feedback and passion for Lightroom.

New Camera Support in Lightroom CC 2015.3 / 6.3

  • Canon EOS M10
  • Canon PowerShot G5 X
  • Canon PowerShot G9 X
  • Fujifilm X-T1 IR
  • Leica SL (Typ 601)
  • Sony RX1R II (DSC RX1RM2)

New Tethered Camera Support in Lightroom CC 2015.3 / 6.3

  • Canon EOS 5DS
  • Canon EOS 5DS R
  • Canon EOS T6i / 750D
  • Canon EOS T6s / 760D

List of added lenses after the break.

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Canon announce new Irista, faster and smarter organised photo sharing

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Canon updated Irista, the company’s photo sharing and cloud service. There’s a sneak peek of the new version here. And some answers to questions here.

From the Irista team:

We’ve had lots of feedback about irista, and later this month we’ll bring some big improvements:

Faster
Adding new photos to irista will be much quicker.

Easier
Zooming through time will be more fun, with our simpler design.

Better organised
Duplicate photos you add will be automatically removed and your photos will always be displayed by the date taken.

Mobile
Free up space on your phone by automatically saving all your phone’s photos to irista with our iOS and Android apps.

Shared
Easily create and share collections with friends, whether they use irista or not.

If you have any questions or suggestions, just reply to this email.

Have a great day!

The irista team