Yesterday afternoon, a local film friend bought a camera on a certain online platform. After seeing the camera, a friend next to him told him that it was a second-hand refurbished camera. Then the film friend didn’t believe it, so he got me again. Let me help you identify it. When I took this camera, the first impression I took on the phone, the hand feel was good, and the appearance was brand new and flawless.
So I took off the lens, and after looking at the fixing screws of the lens mount, I found that the metal ring and screws at the mount seemed a little different from the original one, so I took out my own and his The camera of the same brand has taken off the lens and compared it. It is found that there are indeed some discrepancies. The original camera screws will not show the traces of the screwdriver. Then the parts of the bayonet metal ring are obviously polished. Because the original metal ring is polished and cut by the machine, the bayonet metal ring of the refurbished machine is obviously thinner.
Then lift the camera's mirror and look at it. There are obvious traces of wiping on the CMOS. I feel that this camera vendor is really too careless. After comparing the body of the two cameras at the same time, it is found that the appearance materials of the original camera and the refurbished camera are obviously different, so that you can clearly feel that the texture and texture of the material have obvious changes. Maybe this shell is installed after refurbishment.
Finally, in order to be able to verify my judgment, I looked at the identification code on the bottom of the camera, so I went to the camera's official website to try to register, and finally found that the identification code registration was invalid, and the official website indicated that the identification code was invalid or expired At this time, the friend who was sitting next to me saw this reminder, and his face changed, only to realize that he might be scammed.
To be honest, buy a camera and buy a lens, the biggest pitfall is to buy a refurbished machine. The film friend said that it didn’t feel like a pitfall, because when he saw the merchant on the online platform, the price and the new machine were basically the same. After reading the merchant’s registration information and product reviews, it felt like a guard. Honest business.How could it be refurbished?
Let us first understand the definition of a refurbished machine. Simply put, it refers to a machine assembled from second-hand refurbished or disassembled parts, and then processed into a brand new product through some technical means and then pretends to be a new product. After refurbishment, it is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish a second-hand refurbished machine from the packaging seal to the appearance. However, the camera's identification code and the validity period and factory date of some chip information cannot be refurbished. When they decide to sell to you, these unscrupulous merchants have already thought out a lot of countermeasures. For example, they will tell you that this is a brand new Hong Kong bank. Then various so-called shop guarantees are three or five years, but if something really goes wrong, you will be asked to pay for various reasons or to find a third-party maintenance department to deal with it for you.
In addition, it should be noted that refurbished machines generally do not appear on the machines that were shipped that year. Conventionally, they are machines that have been on the market for more than one year or even longer. Such machines are often out of warranty. In the future, and the market has a large volume, you can find all kinds of spare parts and second-hand disassembled parts, so that you can have the opportunity to refurbish. So in order to prevent yourself from being scammed, I suggest you buy a new model. In addition, due to the limited production capacity of manufacturers in the past two years of epidemics, new products are not available, and bad merchants cannot refurbish them.
In fact, the basic conditions for identifying second-hand or refurbished cameras are also the price. We can completely ignore its appearance and sometimes just look at the price to know if it is a refurbished machine. Conventionally, according to the price of a brand-new camera product, as long as it is 15% lower than the current market price, it is abnormal. If it exceeds 20%, it is basically certain that the camera must be tricky.
Another trick is to judge according to the factory age of the equipment. When we buy this type of machine, we must first do more homework to determine when the machine started production and when it was discontinued Yes, if the machine has been discontinued, it is necessary to determine how long it has been discontinued, especially if it is more than one or two years after the discontinuation date. It is difficult to have a brand new machine. The so-called agreed-upon kind of storage machine,It is a means to confuse users. Especially the kind of machines that were once more popular. If machines such as 5D3 were completely discontinued as early as 2017, but now some unscrupulous merchants still dare to brand the new Hong Kong version or the three-year store warranty machine, then there must be a problem. of. Because this machine has been discontinued for so long, it is impossible to have any brand new machines on the market. Maybe you can buy a refurbished machine with three hands and four hands.
So when we buy some early-market photographic equipment, whether it is a lens or a camera body, we all need to remember a concept, especially such expensive electronic products that have been discontinued more than one For the two-year model, I also said that I was a new camera with a new lens, stocked it, and then processed at a low price. There will be a high probability of a refurbished machine. Therefore, I suggest that you don't be greedy for cheapness, there is no cheapness waiting for you to take it.
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