Colourberry wrote:FYI my 2 cents. I'm in Australia (home of Blackmagic as you know) I've had my preorder since october with Dragon Image and I was position 6 then and I'm still position 6. They say they have received no cameras and thats coming up to 5 months.
First, Blackmagic don't distribute the cameras in Australia.
They are distributed by New Magic, an independent and entirely different company. That aren't Blackmagic.
So it goes like this.
You place an order with Dragon Image.
Dragon Image place an order with New Magic...at some point....
New Magic place an order with Blackmagic (likely not even in Australia) at some point....
You are position 6 with Dragon Image, but what position in the que are Dragon image with New Magic ?
What position are New Magic in the que with Blackmagic globally ?
This is why you can't take your position with a local reseller as being your position in the que. You don't know what is going on at the next two levels above you and you have no way of finding out.
This is why some smaller dealers get a few cameras seemingly earlier than bigger dealers.
And Blackmagic certainly aren't parochial about nationality. They are first come first serve. You'll never hear about it, but I've seen some VERY big hollywood names try and jump the que with cameras in short demand and they're strict about going through dealers.... first come first served (to their model).
Now that doesn't hold true by the time it goes through two more levels of distribution to you, but that is the model they have because they don't direct distribute.
Frustrating, and honestly, this happens every single time they have an in-demand release, back to their first camera. For some reason the UK seem to feel it worst and almost always those guys are the ones making the most complaints.
JB