Where do you buy your lenses?

[Respital]

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]

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]

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...

 

[Geoff]

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

 

[Laquer Head]

Vistek man!

 

[Laquer Head]

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]

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

 

[vroom_skies]

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]

Amazon :good:

 

[Glliw]

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.

 

[Ben]

eeeeebay!