FOUND: Canon 100mm 2.8 Macro lens

ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
edited February 10, 2006 in Flea Market
need to buy in the next few days or I will make a decision to buy at BH or buy a filter instead.

I would consider one of the other brands. On BH, they cost more, and I am concerned that they wouldn't hold their value as well. Besides I am dealing with limited funds.

ginger
After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.

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  • GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
    edited February 9, 2006
    ginger_55 wrote:
    need to buy in the next few days or I will make a decision to buy at BH or buy a filter instead.

    I would consider one of the other brands. On BH, they cost more, and I am concerned that they wouldn't hold their value as well. Besides I am dealing with limited funds.

    ginger

    Dunno I paid $280 for a Sigma 105 Macro 2nd hand!
    LNIB with ALL the PW..box and the case.

    Super nice lens BTW!! :)
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited February 9, 2006
    GraphyFotoz wrote:
    Dunno I paid $280 for a Sigma 105 Macro 2nd hand!
    LNIB with ALL the PW..box and the case.

    Super nice lens BTW!! :)

    Where did you find it, Graphy?

    I have looked here and FM, have seen nothing, very little actually.

    g
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited February 9, 2006
    Nevermind, I bought it from B&H.......469.00

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
    edited February 10, 2006
    ginger_55 wrote:
    Nevermind, I bought it from B&H.......469.00

    ginger

    What'd ya get??

    Ooooffff $469 is outta my range.
    I'm REALLY on limited funds so 2nd hand like new is the only way I can go. rolleyes1.gif
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited February 10, 2006
    GraphyFotoz wrote:
    What'd ya get??

    Ooooffff $469 is outta my range.
    I'm REALLY on limited funds so 2nd hand like new is the only way I can go. rolleyes1.gif


    It hurt me, graphy, it hurt! I got the Canon 100 f2.8 macro. I am figuring the darn lens had better hold its value. I have put all smaller purchases on hold for this one purchase. The price on this lens was just all over the place: 600.00 some places and one place was about 10.00 cheaper than B&H, but everything else they had was more.

    I went down pages and pages of FM, one macro lens and it was sold.

    Now, if anyone wants to sell me a used clothes dryer for under 200.00, well, that is my limit there.

    You really got a good price on yours graphy, where did you get it? When?

    I do not go to Ebay, I never have so I am afraid of it. My choices were coming down to the lens or a filter (almost 150.00 with shipping and all). I thought why not pay the difference and get what I really want. And I do think that lens will hold its value.

    One thing I put on a back burner is a belt to hold extra lens cases, etc. No way can I get my lenses all in my backpack, and the ones I have in there now have exceeded a weight that I can "carry" for any length of time.
    (The filter would have been good there and for that reason aside from money.)

    But if I am going to take a macro photo, I want to take as good a one as I can. Macro is not really my thing, but on the way to the rookery where I go, there are all these bugs. Looking at them through a lens, they are so cute!!!! Make me smile they do. Now I really don't like many of the photos I see of them, but I would like to take photos of some of these small friends of mine. They tilt their heads this and that way. Also, I do like butterflys. And I like abstracts. I am hoping .......

    And waiting to see what would pop up cheaper, that was not going to work for me.

    So, I bought the big thing I would not have been able to get down the line, and I post poned all the smaller things that I hope I can get with time.
    Piece by piece.

    g
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited February 10, 2006
    ginger_55 wrote:
    Now, if anyone wants to sell me a used clothes dryer for under 200.00, well, that is my limit there.
    You can buy a new dryer for $200, I did just a few months ago nod.gif
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  • VikingViking Registered Users Posts: 178 Major grins
    edited February 10, 2006
    I will get either a Canon or a sigma macro lens. So I hope to see some macro shot from you Ginger so I can make out my mind which to get. Who knows, maybe a Canon lens make me to a better photographer. thumb.gif It makes me more poor anyway.
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