Where do you buy your lenses?

Respital · 10-04-2009, 06:16 PM

I've been looking for a lens longer then 200mm from my D60 for some time now but the only one i've found is a 70-300 and anything above 300 shoots up to at least 10 times the price (wtf?) so where can i get a lens for my D60 above 300 and not insanely expensive, more-so where do all of you buy your lenses I've only been to Henry's so far where would be another good place in Canada to buy lenses?

tremmor · 10-04-2009, 06:21 PM

done a lot of business with these people if your interested. very good with return. bought the wrong one for a newer camera.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/

**The_Other_One** · 10-04-2009, 09:09 PM

http://KEH.com was suggested to me a while back. They have lots of new and used equipment. I purchased a Sigma 70-300mm lens from there for $17. They said it it was in poor condition and had a noisy focus. It's really in good condition and the focus is about as noisy as my 55-200mm

People told me they tend to rate things much worse than they really are. Check it out, you could probably find some pretty good deals...

[-0MEGA-] · 10-05-2009, 03:59 AM

I buy a lot from Adorama, I believe they ship to Canada.

Laquer Head · 10-05-2009, 04:41 AM

Vistek man!

Laquer Head · 10-05-2009, 04:46 AM

What kinda of budget do you have?

Nikon has a nice 80-400mm f4.5 but it is 1600 bucks.

edit.

whoops. just saw that u posted about the 80-400..

Honestly, in the nikon line i see that and one 300mm prime f4 before the prices jump into orbit.,

My suggestion is to switch to Canon!!

Glliw · 10-05-2009, 05:46 AM

My suggestion is to look into extension tubes. Cheap alternatives for a 40-60% increase in reach at a cost of fstop.

**vroom_skies** · 10-05-2009, 05:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Glliw

My suggestion is to look into extension tubes. Cheap alternatives for a 40-60% increase in reach at a cost of fstop.

Agreed.
Your not going to get much over 300mm in any form, whether it be in a zoom or prime unless you throw down some serious money. So since were dealing with a low budget, ET's are your best bet.

Shadowhunter · 10-05-2009, 04:08 PM

Amazon

Glliw · 10-05-2009, 04:57 PM

Also, I'm not sure how nikon stuff works, but with canon there's ef and ef-s mount lenses for the full frame and 1.6x crop factors respectively. You can use an ef lens on an ef-s mount camera. so say you bout the 70-300 F2.8L and then used it on an xti/xsi/t1i...etc you would have 60% more reach that way because of the crop factor of the sensor.

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Respital Diamond Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Canada Age: 15 Posts: 2,646	Where do you buy your lenses? I've been looking for a lens longer then 200mm from my D60 for some time now but the only one i've found is a 70-300 and anything above 300 shoots up to at least 10 times the price (wtf?) so where can i get a lens for my D60 above 300 and not insanely expensive, more-so where do all of you buy your lenses I've only been to Henry's so far where would be another good place in Canada to buy lenses? __________________ Winner of Photo Tourney: Twilight /My Rig:/ /Case :/ Antec Sonata III /Power Supply :/ Antec Earthquake 500W /Motherboard :/ Gigabyte P35-DSR3 /Processor :/ Intel E6850@3.4Ghz /Ram :/ Consair 2x 1 Gb 800mhz /Video Card :/ Zotac 8800 GT /Monitor:/Samsung T220 w 20 000 : 1 Contrast and 2ms response time /3DMark06 Score :/ 11730

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Laquer Head Platinum Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: GTA, Ontario Canada Age: 29 Posts: 509	What kinda of budget do you have? Nikon has a nice 80-400mm f4.5 but it is 1600 bucks. edit. whoops. just saw that u posted about the 80-400.. Honestly, in the nikon line i see that and one 300mm prime f4 before the prices jump into orbit., My suggestion is to switch to Canon!! __________________ Core2 T7700 laptop on Win7 Pro 64! My HTPC is slowly under construction Last edited by Laquer Head; 10-05-2009 at 04:51 AM.

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tremmor Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,818	done a lot of business with these people if your interested. very good with return. bought the wrong one for a newer camera. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/

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10-05-2009, 04:57 PM	#10 (permalink)
Glliw Silver Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Florida Posts: 215	Also, I'm not sure how nikon stuff works, but with canon there's ef and ef-s mount lenses for the full frame and 1.6x crop factors respectively. You can use an ef lens on an ef-s mount camera. so say you bout the 70-300 F2.8L and then used it on an xti/xsi/t1i...etc you would have 60% more reach that way because of the crop factor of the sensor. __________________ CPU: Phenom II x4 940 Black Edition MOBO: BIOSTAR TA790GXB AMD 790GX HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 PSU: SIGMA SHARK SP-585 585W GPU: XFX GeForce 9800 GT 512MB Flickr Current time eaters: Call of Duty: WaW l FFXI l Oblivion

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