What did you buy at Focus on Imaging?

Hi there - CameraWorld seemed very popular as did Calumet - bought an 85mm Canon lens there [no not that one] plus a bag - a Retrospective 5 ThinkTank bag {Premier } and LR4 from CameraWorld. Also tried out a 3leggedThing tripod - not cheap and had run out of money by then - but very clever engineering. My partner picked up a G15 from CameraWorld £50 cheaper than anywhere else with a free case.... O and picked up my 'L' at the RPS - chuffing!:clap:
 
I got a refillable ink system for the Epson 3000 printer and some very nice fine art paper.
 
Picked up a canon 16-35, I wanted the 8-15 fisheye as well but seeing as the only canon sellers there are calumet, cameraworld and 1st camera (who had neither lens with them) the other 2 were not prepared to move on price and the 8-15 is a fair bit cheaper elsewhere so I just bought the one lens which was £10 cheaper than the best price on camera price buster and they were throwing in a UV filter at cameraworld for the same price as calumet.

Canon cash back starts soon and they have brought it forward for purchases made at Focus on imageing.
 
Manfrotto 410 head £119 from Calumet - not bad. Need new legs now :lol:

Lee 82mm adapter £40 - nothing amazing but nice and easy

Canon 16-35 II - turned out to be defective junk (the one I tried in local store was even worse), now returned for a refund and now left with a useless 82mm adapter.

I am toying with the idea of going on Wednesday again to try spending the cash again
 
A second RC2 QR plate for tripod £12

Also bought a Blackrapid Sport strap (for work)
 
I managed to pick up a few bits. Olympus 60mm F2.8 Macro for £301 (at least £98 cheaper than online), Lowepro PhotoHatchback, Perfect Photosuite 7 LR edition and a bunch of Lee Seven5 filters to use with my OMD to replace the 100mm versions I had for my Canon gear (100mm versions the gradations are too large for the smaller lenses of my OMD)

All in all a good day and a lot of money saved! All the places I got stuff from I bartered the prices down no issues at all! :)
 
antc said:
I managed to pick up a few bits. Olympus 60mm F2.8 Macro for £301 (at least £98 cheaper than online), Lowepro PhotoHatchback, Perfect Photosuite 7 LR edition and a bunch of Lee Seven5 filters to use with my OMD to replace the 100mm versions I had for my Canon gear (100mm versions the gradations are too large for the smaller lenses of my OMD)

All in all a good day and a lot of money saved! All the places I got stuff from I bartered the prices down no issues at all! :)
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Ooo Oly 60mm for £301, nice :-)
 
ShrubMonkey said:
Ooo Oly 60mm for £301, nice :-)
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Yeah indeed! Really good price, my friend who I went with picked up the 75 1.8 for 535!!!! They had a lot of good deals on the Oly kit. OMD_12-50kit at 999 also!

Didnt see anything like that on any Canon or Nikon stuff!
 
Well found the bessel stand and was very impressed so hit it hard, 120 Octobox, strip boxes,beauty dish and snoot. I'd like to thank you guys on here as this is where I found out about them.
 
A new Lencarta EP300 head with 10% discount from er, Lencarta, and a reflector for the head from the Bessel stand only a tenner.
 
Going to give Lightroom another go after picking up LR4 for £65 on the Cameraworld stand.

David
 
I bought a large bottle of water at £2.50!!!

That was it! :lol:
 
Panasonic G5 and 14mm, £329
Lowepro flipside 400 £75
A wireless flash trigger from viewfinder photographic, which doesnt seem to work at £25
Edit the trigger works very well
 
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The only thing I brought was a silicon body case for my 7D - £20.
 
Willid1 said:
Going to give Lightroom another go after picking up LR4 for £65 on the Cameraworld stand.

David
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Same here. But someone in an earlier post got it for £50. We wuz robbed.
 
Jack Flash said:
Same here. But someone in an earlier post got it for £50. We wuz robbed.
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T'was me. To be fair, to get it for £50 I had to buy something else so got a blower and cleaning kit for a tenner that my mate who was with me wanted. They'd run out of base caps for lenses
 
A canon ef-s 15-85mm from Calumet for £340 so I was pleased with that even though I wasn't intending to buy anything.
 
Dino f said:
A new Lencarta EP300 head with 10% discount from er, Lencarta, and a reflector for the head from the Bessel stand only a tenner.
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If you'd bought the standard reflector from Lencarta as well, you would have saved £1:)
 
A 3LT t-shirt that came with a free Brian tripod and a book a flash photography that was only £5, oh and the zenfolio £1 for 3 months deal
 
A new in box Paterson developing tank, a thermometer, a film squeegee and a measuring jug oh and a filter remover tool all from the disabled photographers stand and for the princely sum of £7 in total.
 
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I bought a honeycomb grid for my Lencarta beauty dish.
 
I bought from Calumet a Nikon 35mm Lens for £115.

Bit new to photography so this was the only thing I was wanting to pick up if they had it for a good price.
 
Iffacus said:
A 3LT t-shirt that came with a free Brian tripod and a book a flash photography that was only £5, oh and the zenfolio £1 for 3 months deal
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Damned expensive those T-shirts! ;) I bought a 'Keith' which is bloody awesome for its size and weight.

I also bought an EOS650D and a grip from Pixel-pro, some flash gels, memory cards and a few other bits!

The 650D was sort of an impulse purchase because I wanted a camera I could take to work with me and not have to worry about my 5DMKIII getting pinched. I wasn't expecting great things from it but so far I've been very pleasantly surprised! :)
 
A Karl Taylor DVD and a backdop. Everything else I tested and then got from Amazon or Ebay.

Like all of these shows, they rarely have good offers now.

One example is a Tamrac case I was looking at, £60 show price. £25 on Amazon- Thank god for smart phones.
 
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