I was nearly not impressed with Nikon

Brian... I appreciate that you make a hobby out of buying and playing with cheap car-boot lenses, testing them and comparing and all that...

but, just out of interest - how many of these £4 wonders do you have kicking around, and, seriously, if you've still got all the ones you've mentioned in the past 6 years, have you not actually considered selling the whole lot and actually buying a half-decent 3 year old digital SLR to take pictures of the grandkids with instead... Because even at £4 a pop for the stuff, sold on fleabay as being tested and working, you'd be able to buy something pretty damned good - as you must have come up with at least one a fortnight for 6 years... could be £600+ worth of kit there.
 
TheBigYin said:
Brian... I appreciate that you make a hobby out of buying and playing with cheap car-boot lenses, testing them and comparing and all that...

but, just out of interest - how many of these £4 wonders do you have kicking around, and, seriously, if you've still got all the ones you've mentioned in the past 6 years, have you not actually considered selling the whole lot and actually buying a half-decent 3 year old digital SLR to take pictures of the grandkids with instead... Because even at £4 a pop for the stuff, sold on fleabay as being tested and working, you'd be able to buy something pretty damned good - as you must have come up with at least one a fortnight for 6 years... could be £600+ worth of kit there.
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Doesn't even have to cost that much, my Nikon D70s and a 18-70 kit lens [known to be THE nikon kit lens of all time, incredibly good] is probably worth about £120 absolute max, but would still take bloody good pics of the grandkids and anything else you pointed it at. Ok, to most digital users, its going to need help at anything above ISO800, but to a staunch film user, I doubt the extra grain would be particularly offensive. I am with Joxby, at £18 for a lens, the fact it is round, has glass in it, and bolts onto the camera makes it a bargain, anything beyond that is a bloody massive bonus.
 
TheBigYin said:
Brian... I appreciate that you make a hobby out of buying and playing with cheap car-boot lenses, testing them and comparing and all that...

but, just out of interest - how many of these £4 wonders do you have kicking around, and, seriously, if you've still got all the ones you've mentioned in the past 6 years, have you not actually considered selling the whole lot and actually buying a half-decent 3 year old digital SLR to take pictures of the grandkids with instead... Because even at £4 a pop for the stuff, sold on fleabay as being tested and working, you'd be able to buy something pretty damned good - as you must have come up with at least one a fortnight for 6 years... could be £600+ worth of kit there.
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Well Mark what you say all makes sense, and using a digi is no problem as my son has his Canon 400d parked at my house....the problem is sometimes I don't practice what I preached in that I've posted quite a few times "use a digi for 35mm and medium format for film"....the 90x plus two zooms has cost me overall £40 and I'll enjoy it more compared to a boring 400D and probably it's all about achieving on film that's so easy on digi esp with people in trying to avoid some one blinking when you can machine gun with digi.
As for the many lenses I've bought they are not all for one make of camera and as well as the hobby of seeing how they perform, it's useful knowledge if someone want to know about a lens...I have quite a few zooms (some in mint condition) that I don't use and would give them away free if they pay the postage, but not to anyone (as in classifieds) and just members of T&C..but the rules don't allow that. :(
 
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