Phate said:
Canon Lens' have a worldwide warrunty
I think that most do, but the Canon lens we bought in the states, would requie shipping to the states for a free warrantee fix. As far as we where told, Canons International warrantee requires the lens to be shipped to the market of origin for the claim.
If you are interested in the peice of mind given witha warrantee, you might be interested enough to check out the term of the warantee. Buying a from Canon UK, you get a 3 year UK (and EU I think) warantee, Buying from Canon Singapore, you get a 1 year local, 6 month international warantee.
According the the details on the Canon Singapore site, the UK does honour the International warantee, though which products this actually refers too can be tricky to find out.
Personally I think the long warantte terms we get within the EU may be worth some of the extra cost of buying them here (especially with digital EOS's - a friend knows 2 people who have sent them back, one is on his 3rd warantee replacement).