Canon is launching a brand new, free CPS membership tier for pictures and filmmaking college students. Canon Skilled Companies (CPS) membership has lengthy been a staple for any working photographer who’s invested within the Canon ecosystem. Whereas the upper tiers include an annual membership payment, many working professionals will argue it’s greater than value it. Now, Canon U.S.A. is launching a free membership stage for college students that enables entry to a stage of service beforehand reserved for paying subscribers. The CPS Scholar Membership is fairly sturdy for a free program. Based on Canon, the CPS Scholar membership gives a number of thrilling perks that aren’t out there within the complimentary Silver Tier for Canon shooters. Most notably, Scholar members get complimentary Canon Upkeep Service (CMS) on as much as two merchandise per 12 months — together with Canon DSLR and mirrorless cameras, in addition to EF and RF lenses. Scholar members additionally get a ten% low cost on repairs and likewise as much as two merchandise per 12 months. It is a enormous profit for scholar photographers or videographers who could be choosing up a Canon R50 for college or capturing on a hand-me-down Insurgent DSLR as a result of, along with these perks being unavailable on the non-student free Silver Tier, scholar members are additionally not restricted by the CPS factors required to entry this system within the first place. Sometimes, Canon calculates factors primarily based on the variety of merchandise bought. For instance, a Canon R5 is value 12 CPS factors and it takes 20 factors to entry the Gold membership stage which supplies complimentary service and restore reductions. Scholar memberships require no factors and solely want a sound scholar ID to enroll.
In comparison with the free Silver tier and paid Gold and Platinum tiers, the Scholar membership tier seems to be a terrific deal. “This membership program not solely helps college students of their larger training pursuits and pursuits, but in addition opens doorways to alternatives that will have in any other case appeared out of attain,” Canon U.S.A. Senior Vice President for Service Technique and Help Jason Fligman says. “By offering this stage of entry, for gratis, by way of our new Scholar CPS program, Canon helps to encourage and proactively form the way forward for the imaging subject.” Along with the free service, the membership additionally comes with a complimentary membership reward, which up to now has been a neckstrap or comparable accent, free return delivery from a Canon Service Facility, three to 5 enterprise day expedited service, and entry to an unique member hotline. Canon can be rolling out an Unique Buy Provide program by way of the Canon On-line Retailer, which is out there for scholar members, in addition to all Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Cinema CPS members. college students can apply for CPS Scholar Membership on the Canon U.S.A. web site. Picture credit: Images by Canon Skilled Companies.