yaya
Active member
Thank you Peter for this info and I am sorry that you were mislead, although it is hard for me to comment on the details as I was not involved.Well yaya - I was 'sold' an Aptus 75 because the Afi was only a few months away. I was 'told' that the Aptus would just go on to the Afi. 2 weeks after purchase your 75s was announced. I was told that I would be 'upgraded' at the same time as the Afi arrived for no cost - given the 'unfortunate timing' of my purchase.
Well I got tired of waiting after a year and half. I got angry that my free upgrade to 75s was no longer free. And I became very angry when informed that hmmm actually you cant use your back on the Afi. Then told that my camera was worth 1/3 of what I paid as a trade on the Afi.
This summarises a lot of to and fro.
Very disappointing.
There is more ..but well- what can I say except for those who wish to purchase these MFD systems - be very very careful who your dealer is.
Hope this helps yaya.
Best
Pete
What I can say on our part is that when we announced the AFi it was clear to us (and we made it clear to all our dealers, this is well documented) that this was going to be a new back with a new mount.
Regarding the Aptus 75S; when it was announced (at the same time as the AFi, during Photokina 2006), we did have a solution for those who were keen to be the first to place orders. We took orders for Aptus 75S and we provided (and invoiced for) Aptus 75. Then when the Aptus 75S was available, we swapped the backs and invoiced the difference in price.
I am assuming that since you bought the Aptus 75 a month before the announcement of the S series, nobody could have given you a "warning" simply because they did not know.
Of course this is my assumption but we can take this off line and dig deeper...although I have a feeling that this might not be of an interest to you anymore.
Thanks
Yair