I was just thinking about this topic and did a search in the discussion forum which didn't turn up too much. Any thoughts? For me I have always regretted purchasing the battery grip for my D700 as I never needed it much and it added so much weight. I find throwing in an extra battery no problem. An 80-200mm push pull was also disappointing. Usually for me its anything that adds needless weight I guess. I know for many others things like a battery pack add a nice solid feel for their hands. I have also been a real sucker for camera bags maybe a dozen over the last few years.
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Items You Have Regretted Purchasing
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Posted 1 year ago #
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Nikon 28mm f2.8D was my biggest - luckily not so expensive - regret . Did get rid of it after a few months of "not so sharp " images. It is one lens that should be discontinued.
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Easily the samyang 10mm (rokinon 9mm, vivitar 6mm, etc, all the same piece of crap). I paid a little under $300 and that included overnight shipping. It, in no way, gives crisp images. It feels like an odd photoshop border around the outer 5% of the frame, more like a smear to achieve that extra 10 degrees of view. Buy the Sigma or the Nikon...
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SB-400 flash. It sat it my closet hardly used and eventually sold it.
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Luckily, anything I bought and regretted, I promptly sent back and got what I really wanted. The Tamron 10-24, for instance. That lens was such a let-down and I knew it would be. I originally wanted the Tokina 11-16mm 2.8, but after not being able to find one, I went against my best judgment and gave the Tamron a shot. After 1 day, I knew it was a big mistake. I promptly sent it back and found the Tokina 11-16 a few days later and happily bought it. What a great UWA lens! I really wanted to like the Tamron.....but it just couldn't stand up to the Tokina.
Mu suggestion is to get what you really want, even if it takes you longer to find or to save more money to get. Only buy from a respectable vendor, that will allow you to return your purchase after a decent "evaluation" period. This will eliminate a lot of regret.
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Have I regretted anything? Hard to say, since even if I make a mistake, I can still learn something about it, and often something I regret buying in the past becomes something useful in the future.
Some examples: when I first got the 50/1.8D, I found it was a useless lens, because I couldn't see what I could with it that I couldn't with me 18-70 (I didn't know anything about aperture then, if you can believe that). Later, I eschewed it because it wasn't wider than my 10-20, or longer than my 70-300VR, so what was the point? At that point, I probably would have regretted the $100 I paid for it. However, later I forced myself to use only it for a walk around session, and for some concert work, and I discovered I actually really liked it. Now, it's my most common lens for events, concerts, portraits or any picture that involves people. Oh yeah, I use it all the time for macro use as well.
Another example is a set of cheap extension tubes I got. They were practically useless since I had no way of holding the camera steady, or adjusting the focus. All of my shots were nearly wide open at high ISO, and they were just awful. After I got a cheap macro rail, suddenly, it became extremely useful, and a key part of my equipment. Even now, after I got my bellows and some auto extension tubes, they're still useful when I need more magnification (who doesn't?)
I guess the closest thing that I regret is the 24/2.8 pre-AI (but converted) that I got on impulse when I bought my FM2 a few months ago. I thought it was pretty decent for a manual focus wide lens, but then I discovered that if I had instead got it at KEH instead of my local used camera dealer, I could have gotten a AI version for only a little bit more, which would be a bit more practical.
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When it came out I bought a bridge camera, Olympus FZ18, hoping to use it when I didn't want to carry the "big stuff" around. This camera is really excellent for a bridge but it will never replace a DSLR despite its good design, its excellent lens, and its light weight. However I soon found that the electronic view finder, although one of the best at the time, was way behind the one on my D300 or even my D60, especially in bright sun light conditions. I never sold it because, like most cameras, its value on the second hand market quickly dropped. So I will give it to my grand son who seems to like photography and does quite a good job with his modest Coolpix.
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Honestly? My 50mm f1.4 af-s. I wonder if I would have been more satisfied with the sigma, or just skipping 50mm altogether since it's such a strange range for DX. The Bokeh is also really ugly. I had a shoot with my godson & bluebonnets this spring, and the the difference in bokeh between my sigma 17-50 OS @ 50mm f2.8 was huge. The sigma was so much creamer
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Everything of mine that is Canon...
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There was already a long discussion about this
http://nikonrumors.com/forum/topic.php?id=3240And another thread on Buyer's Remorse.
Posted 1 year ago #
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