Replacing my 5DMarkII

[HDNitehawk]

so I took it in to BBY to have it looked at under their in-store warranty.

Do I understand this right. You took it in to Best Buy? Or does BBY mean something else. Did they send it in to Canon? I do not have to much faith in Best Buy that I would trust them to tell me a $2500 camera is broke beyond repair.


I would send it myself to Canon to have them look at it. They will give you a quote before they do any repairs.


The answer is in your wallet. Can you afford, and bring yourself to part with, another $2499 for another 5D II?


It makes no logical sense that the 5D III would be released before the flagship 1D III is replaced. And it hasn't even been anounced yet. You could be waiting another year or more for a camera if you wait.

[Kayaker72]

Do you have the $2,500 gift card from "BBY" and your old camera? How bad/many "stuck pixels" do you have? I have ~4 what I call "hot pixels" on my 7D sensor. Occasionally, they influence a photo, but not often (I can think of two photos). My understanding is that you can send your camera into Canon and they "remap" your sensor. Basically, no sensor is perfect and they always have dead/stuck/hot pixels. But Canon can turn different pixels off and program the camera to interpolate over the turned off pixel.


So, if you are sitting on a $2,500 gift card and a camera with a fixable problem.....well, I am jealous.


Of course, if you have many "stuck pixels" in a block, this may not work. But, I