List of Sony Authorized dealers for F3 in the US?

[Andy Shipsides]

Don

I'd love to have you buy the camera from AbelCineTech. I'm from Florida (Lake Mary - near Orlando) if that counts. :)

I do think that MidTownVideo in Miami will be carrying it though, and they are very nice folks - Midtown Video

On a different note, the F3 will be in house at Abel NY on January 25th.

Andy

[Dave Sperling]

Don,
Being near New York City, I tend to get a lot of stuff through EC Professional or Abel. I often bypass manufacturer sites for sales location info and go straight to Google. In less time than it takes to write this response, a quick florida search brought up a DVinfo link asking about places in Florida, and the response mentioned Midtown Video in Miami. The F3 happens to be listed on their website under 'New Products'. I've never dealt with them, but they are at least in your state. Or look around on the web, there may be places even closer to you.

[Don Parrish]

Andy, glad to hear from you, I will take a look for your store.

Dave, funny you mentioned that, I can find sony webpages easier by searching for the exact phrase on the web than by going through the site.

[Junior Chan]

Originally Posted by Don Parrish

Dave I was just looking for a hands on dealer for pro equipment. The OP was asking for a list of dealers for the F3 and I was explaining my frustration with sony's site. Once I found out what I was doing wrong on the search page, the dealers listed didn't appear to be brick and mortar. There websites either listed nothing or didn't carry pro gear at all, and that is after there search page directed me to that site for that specific model. Just frustrated with sonys site. As far as I can tell, Florida lacks a well stocked sony store. ( or a well stocked pro video store of any kind ).

Originally Posted by Dave Sperling

Don,
Being near New York City, I tend to get a lot of stuff through EC Professional or Abel. I often bypass manufacturer sites for sales location info and go straight to Google. In less time than it takes to write this response, a quick florida search brought up a DVinfo link asking about places in Florida, and the response mentioned Midtown Video in Miami. The F3 happens to be listed on their website under 'New Products'. I've never dealt with them, but they are at least in your state. Or look around on the web, there may be places even closer to you.

Thanks Dave!

@Don, funny that you mentioned your inconvenience with Sony's search function for resellers on a particular model ( which required removing the dashes ). I'm in charge of our website: E.C. Professional Video, Inc.. We recently launched our new website and we are working on the search function to understand what users are looking for, with or without the dashes, misspellings etc. Sony does have a big site, they probably overlooked that area.

We are also an Authorized Dealer.
PMW-F3 Super 35MM

We will also set up a F3 Demo in our Showroom / Lab, once all of our pre-orders are fullfilled.

[Dave Sperling]

Hi Don,
was this the page? --

Sony Product Detail Page PMWF3K

I just played with it this morning, and seemed to be working fine on returning results.
Maybe they saw your post and updated overnight?

[Don Parrish]

This one, it just seemed if it was my site I would have a drop down menu, heck, if it was my site, When you selected PMW EX3 from the drop down you wold get a list of links, sales, specifications, learning, updates/downloads etc. with this find a dealer link you select the product by typing it in. Just make sure you use the dashes, which was my pet peeve. Actually, the whole site is clunky, half the time way to slow, and all the time scattered. Check out the dealers for pmw ex3 32757 and 1500 miles. Without dashes zero returns, with dashes, odd websites In Florida that I wouldn't buy from.

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