What was the most disapointing camera equipment you have bought

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I'm sure that you all have some piece of equipment that you really wish you had never bought. This was mine. I thought it would be ideal for when I went walking as it is both a walking pole and a monopod. It turned out to be next to useless.

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The big knob on the end (no rude comments) is very uncomfortable to hold and a pain to fit in your pocket when using the monopod. The ring which retains the handle falls of all the time as it doesn't stay tight.

To extend the monopod you have to twist each section through 360 degrees to loosen or tighten it. This is fine for a walking pole but almost impossible when you are struggling to adjust the height of the pole. I have given up on it and gone back to my Velbon monopod. I wish I had never bought it.:thumbsdown::bang:

Anyone else got any equipment they wish they had never bought?
 
Bought an Infra Red filter before finding out my camera doesnt support IR. Not strictly the equipments fault. Idiot.

Also regretting not getting something bigger than my crumpler pretty boy xxxl, as others have noted, it's tiny. Although i've heard its what you do with it that counts?
 
The non APO version of the Sigma 70-300.
 
I don't think i've been disappointed in anything i've bought. Outgrown something or wanted better after a while maybe.
I'm always quite obsessive about researching anything i want before i get it though.
 
Chewy said:
Bought an Infra Red filter before finding out my camera doesnt support IR. Not strictly the equipments fault. Idiot.
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that makes 2 of us then:lol:

:bonk:

a much bigger mistake than that for me was buying elements 5.
 
A lensbaby, never got on with it, guess I like sharp images too much.
 
Ah i see... A thread for the nikon users... good thinking! :thumbs:


;)
 
Got to agree with 'Steep'.
 
For me it was, and apologies to anyone who has one, an EF75-300. The poor thing suffered absolutely chronic CA (even before the lens cap was removed :lol:). I've never been so glad to see the back of a lens.

Bob
 
I don't regret buying any of my equipment as I do ALOT of research before I decide on a lens, body or piece of kit.

One piece of kit I have is complete crap and that's my tripod. However, I am not dissapointed by it as I knew it would be crap since I bought it from Argos for £7.

Canon Bob said:
For me it was, and apologies to anyone who has one, an EF75-300. The poor thing suffered absolutely chronic CA (even before the lens cap was removed :lol:). I've never been so glad to see the back of a lens.

Bob
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Yep it's a rubbish lens, often refered to as the worst lens ever made by Canon.
 
Ah the Canon 24-105 rears it's head again. The single worst lens I have ever paid for [bearing in mind I didn't pay for the 18-55 kit lens when I had that ;)]

Only had it for a month and was glad to see the back of it.
 
Is that the L, h4rri?

One piece of kit I have is complete crap and that's my tripod. However, I am not dissapointed by it as I knew it would be crap since I bought it from Argos for £7.
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Aye, same here. Mine was about a tenner though. Does the job, and I have expected too much from it. I'll be getting a nice Manfrotto tripod or maybe monopod next month :D

Other than that, I've got a 35-80 USM somewhere that I never use. I don't think I paid anything for that either, though.
 
A film camera. A Canon EOS 1000F I think it was. Bought a few lenses for it and took the worst pics of my life with it. Sold it and went back to a lovely little Olympus OM. I want an OM again!
 
Same for me with the Tripod. Not disappointed with the purchase as I acquired it for free. But really disappointed when I use it. Need to spend some money ;)
 
Easy... 77mm Polariser for my 12-24, a snip at about £100 I thought for something so useful to my landscape work

But in this range the 'Pola effect' isn't all across the image, so it's looks stupid to me and hasn't been used since it's first outing a couple of years ago

Anyone want to buy it? :lol:

DD
 
Back in the day when I used Nikon film SLRs, I splashed out on a Sigma 400mm f/5.6 APO. It worked out at £1 per mm of focal length :( It had a really cheap and nasty metal aperture ring, which put me off Sigma lenses for life. I only used it a few times...

The final insult was when I dug it out a few years later to trade in for zoom lens. One of the inner elements was completely covered with fungus. Not having any use for a 400mm soft-focus lens, I ended up binning it :annoyed:

A.
 
Not really bought anything "disappointing" but the least used is my Off shoe sync cord lead. I think I've only used that twice and it costed me £40 !
 
I've got the 24-105mm on my 5D and I quite like it. I say quite like because I use it mainly for studio shots and the odd landscape (and some of them are very odd! :))

Because I mainly use it at about f5.6-f14 then I'm fine with it. I can see the benefits of an f2.8 in that range but the 24-105mm is fine at f5.6.

Horses for courses.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Why didn't you like it? Too slow ?
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You got it in one, far too slow even for an f/4 lens. The results and the focal length were nice but I just wasn't using it. Even in direct bright sunlight I was having to up the ISO to get useable shutter speeds.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Not really bought anything "disappointing" but the least used is my Off shoe sync cord lead. I think I've only used that twice and it costed me £40 !
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Give you a tenner for it ;)

I keep eyeing up L lenses :D
 
Ive bought a few things ive been disappointed with... Mainly because im a moron. :)

Hoya 52mm SuperHMC PRO1-D Star-4, bought only to find it wouldn't fit the lens i owned that would take a 55mm filter.

Canon EyePiece Extender, bought only to find it wouldn't fit the 1dmkII

I have also had the Canon ef 75-300 f4-5.6 III, and the Canon ef 100-400 f4.5-5.6L, and eventually sold both as i was disappointed with them, but i think thats more outgrowing, rather than just flat out disappointment.
 
Canon's nifty. I never use it, except with extension tubes to play around with macro stuff, but I never keep the photos. I'd rather stick the tubes on my 70-200 or 100-400. I know it's cheap but I have since bought a 17-55 f/2.8 IS USM and the nifty never gets a look in. The nifty had a clear run for 6 months, when my only other lens was my 17-85 and it didn't get a look in then, either. I bought the nifty for low light performance and superior sharpness. When you're used to USM lenses (I have five of them) the noisey, slow, imprecise focus of the nifty is a joke. Manual focus is damn near impossible because the focus ring just fights you all the way. It's also pretty hard to grab hold of, especially with a hood fitted. Did Canon actually want to prevent people manually focusing this lens? It certainly isn't easy. Who would imagine that an f/1.8 lens would focus more poorly than my 17-85 f/4-5.6 lens? I thought the magic number in Canon's camera bodies was f/2.8. Lenses with apertures at f/2.8 and wider should utilise higher precision focusing. I expected that from the nifty. I did not appear to get it.

IQ is OK, but you need to stop down a bit for optimum sharpness and then you get super-ugly pentagonal specular highlights in the background.

I'll keep it, because you never know, but I don't like it.
 
yourapocalypse said:
Is that the L, h4rri?



Aye, same here. Mine was about a tenner though. Does the job, and I have expected too much from it. I'll be getting a nice Manfrotto tripod or maybe monopod next month :D
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Yeah my £7 one does the job...just about.

I never use a tripod so didn't really see the point in spending alot on one.

The piece of kit I never use is my nifty fifty. I'v used it loads of times, but just don't use it at all anymore. Not such a big deal since it was only £50.
 
Jessops flash gun, i may as well bought a maglite.
 
the worst piece of kit I've got is a 2x tele converter thingy that screws onto the end of the lens - totally crap......it's that bad I'm too embarassed to advertise it on here or fleabay!! £30 down the drain - that's what happens when being a tightwad!! :shake:
 
Ooh - just remembered a good one :lol:

In the old film days I bought a Helios 3x convertor to turn my 200mm f5.6 into a 600mm lens :eek::eek::eek:

Ace I thought :thumbs:

But as it lost 3 stops of light, thus making the lens about a 600mm f16, and of course there was no autofocus in those days, the viewfinder image was so dark - I couldn't see to focus it anyway :thumbsdown:

:bonk::bonk::bonk:

DD
 
B+W 77mm kaesemann MRC SLIM Circular Polarizer Filter

I find it very hard to see any effect when using it, I had a cheap Hoya and it was really very apparent when turning it but the B+W is just rubbish and it was £90 :(:suspect::(
 
Photoshop Elements, It was crap...

I went and acquired CS2 a week later (through my school), which is actually worth bothering with.

Now do I want to get the rest of CS3 to go with InCopy?
 
Canon Bob....
For me it was, and apologies to anyone who has one, an EF75-300. The poor thing suffered absolutely chronic CA (even before the lens cap was removed ). I've never been so glad to see the back of a lens
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No need to apologies as mine is pretty sharp. You could apologies for my 17-40L, for the money i was expecting a lot more image quality
 
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