Your best photography bargain
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Over the weekend I made a cheeky offer on a lens on ebay, after a bit of back and forth and some counter-offers I managed to win said lens for £60.
The lens in questions was a Nikkor AF 24mm F2.8 D – not a new lens by any sense, but still listed for around £450 on Nikon and Amazon, cheapest I could find it even second hand was about £160.
Safe to say I was chuffed to bits, will make a nice addition to my travel kit as the D prime lenses are some of the smallest Nikon lenses on the market.
In a not so impressive find, I recently picked up a (1 year old) second hand D750 with only 3000 shutter actuations for £820!
So as per the thread title, what great photography bargains have you lot picked up in the past?
The lens in questions was a Nikkor AF 24mm F2.8 D – not a new lens by any sense, but still listed for around £450 on Nikon and Amazon, cheapest I could find it even second hand was about £160.
Safe to say I was chuffed to bits, will make a nice addition to my travel kit as the D prime lenses are some of the smallest Nikon lenses on the market.
In a not so impressive find, I recently picked up a (1 year old) second hand D750 with only 3000 shutter actuations for £820!
So as per the thread title, what great photography bargains have you lot picked up in the past?
Some great stories and bargains here.
Slight update, it seems I started this thread prematurely:
My 24mm 2.8 arrived yesterday and the f'ing thing is broken. Knew it was too good to be true. It hunts back and forth for focus but is constantly out of focus no matter where you are in the focal range.
Safe to say I'm not very happy and have packed it back up ready to send back. The description on ebay said 'working as it should', but at the end of the description said S&R – apparently I was supposed to know that S&R meant spares and repairs, despite the very first line in the description saying 'working as it should'
Had a look for an alternative but nothing under about £130 for the same lens at the moment.
Rant over
Slight update, it seems I started this thread prematurely:
My 24mm 2.8 arrived yesterday and the f'ing thing is broken. Knew it was too good to be true. It hunts back and forth for focus but is constantly out of focus no matter where you are in the focal range.
Safe to say I'm not very happy and have packed it back up ready to send back. The description on ebay said 'working as it should', but at the end of the description said S&R – apparently I was supposed to know that S&R meant spares and repairs, despite the very first line in the description saying 'working as it should'
Had a look for an alternative but nothing under about £130 for the same lens at the moment.
Rant over
Resolutionary said:
Sorry to hear that your expectations weren't met, never fun when something you hope to be a bit of a bargain turns out to have faults.
My best bargain was a brand new Canon 24mm 2.8 I picked up in Canada for about £80. I don't know if Nikon do a similar item to the Canon pancake? Even at top whack they're only in the mid-hundreds I believe, and I really like mine. Mind you it only works on crop sensors.
Unfortunately Nikon don't have any pancake equivilants, the lens I bought along with the 50mm D series lens are the smallest you can get I think.My best bargain was a brand new Canon 24mm 2.8 I picked up in Canada for about £80. I don't know if Nikon do a similar item to the Canon pancake? Even at top whack they're only in the mid-hundreds I believe, and I really like mine. Mind you it only works on crop sensors.
Brand new the 24m 2.8 I want is still around £450 but go for second hand between £100-200 so I'm keeping my eye out for another bargain!
GravelBen said:
The 28mm f2.8D is pretty small too (slightly smaller than the 50mm f1.8D), I picked one up for $70nz recently. Think the 35mm f1.8 is similar size too and can often be found fairly cheap.
My 28mm needed maximum AF fine-tune dialled in to focus accurately which makes me wonder if its had some damage at some point, but very sharp aside from that and nice image quality.
Ah yeh sorry I meant to say that all of those D series primes are pretty small. I'm keeping an eye on all of them on ebay at the moment incase one slips through the net at a lower than average price.My 28mm needed maximum AF fine-tune dialled in to focus accurately which makes me wonder if its had some damage at some point, but very sharp aside from that and nice image quality.
Edited by GravelBen on Saturday 26th January 00:55
Lucas CAV said:
Send it back.
Tbh it's nothing special - IMHO not in same league as other Nikon primes
Interesting? It gets fairly good reviews which is what I based my choice on. I wanted something light, small and wide for travel and street stuff, I already have a 50mm prime so figured that a 24mm would give me a wider option.Tbh it's nothing special - IMHO not in same league as other Nikon primes
What would you recommend then?
danllama said:
Tonight I've won a Canon 5d classic for £155! Very, very happy with that as they're selling for well above that. Even better its local so I can check it over while collecting it. Will be interesting to compare it to my 6d and 70d. Many people say the 5d has a quality that Canon has never really matched with their other cameras.
Nice! Yeh I've read very good things about the 5D classic, even in this day and age. Enjoy.Gassing Station | Photography & Video | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff