Canon warranty and after-warranty service

[BernieD]

Wash your keyboard out! You know I bought the best brand 

Tom

I know, I like our Canon too. The Nikon took best buy primarily on the lower price not necessarily better. I thought long and hard before posting that but since you were showing buyer's remorse and talking about switching to the Nikon, I thought I'd throw that in

[Pierat]

Canon is a great choice. Both Canon and Nikon make excellent DSLR products. Canon sells lots more units, perhaps for good reasons. In any case, IMHO it is unlikely that things will start falling off of your camera the day after the warranty expires, but I guess it could happen. Nothing has fallen off of my Canon 10D in over 60,000 shutter actuations. Not near that on the 50D yet, but it's doing great. Why not have fun, go shoot the photos that you bought it to take, and don't worry unless stuff actually happens?! Good shooting!

[Tom]

Why not have fun, go shoot the photos that you bought it to take...

Thanks. That's the plan, although we haven't been able to go anywhere since I bought the camera - had house guests all week/weekend, then expected contractors to turn up.

[Pierat]

Yeah, never really enough time to make photographs here, either. Sometimes I do pester visitors by taking their photos, though, or shooting whatever process is going on at the time -- happy snaps, I call them. Even if I do go out and photograph a planned photography project, I often don't have enough time for the post-processing, which I enjoy a lot less. Anyway, enjoy that new camera!