... cos your camera is dangling from your neck and there's a zip and it's "kkkkkrch!" time.

I have one, it is mildly scratched - fine by me. I look after my kit, but sometimes things do go wrong.

Bret

... glass has nothing to do with the ability to create a sellable shot. Nothing at all.

Why does everyone suddenly figure they can make money from photography?

Bret

you've been reading too much pratchett, I fear

I have no idea what they are, like the DoF.

Bret

No.

Buy good glass, it will keep its value. The lenses are not expensive because they are necessarily sharp, it is because they render a scene in a way which suits it and is pleasing to the eye. That means seperation, bokeh, rendering overall, colour saturation and feel.

Take a shot from my icetrack series from last year and another one from this year. Most of last year's have a seventies feel, as they were done with an M 135. This year's I used the 50-200 and the difference is significant.
Light is also not to be underestimated. Difference between f4 and f2.8 is four times as much light let in IIRC... that can make the difference between blur and sharp.

Bret

actually, if it was a *really* nice single malt, that might be a decent deal.....

Bret

I suspect bigmas are easy to sell for a decent price. There's one on Ebay right now in Canada going for £648; new they're well over £1000, so...

Bret

D-FA, Siggy 1.4, DA70 2.4, maybe even a 40/2.8, but nothing like the manuals unless you go to an F or FA.

Enough practice and you will be able to manually focus extremely quickly.

Bret

that's what I figured. Then I read the wikipedia page and saw a *lot* of this is definitions from teh SD authority.

Bret

SD to (officially at least) 2GB, SDHC above that, though there are some 4GB cards that are SD only. Not many, mind...

Bret

UK camera prices: http://www.camerapricebuster.co.uk/prod1136.html