I use black wolley hats as a lens bag, soft and stops them knocking about when out of the main bag, had 5 or so as freebies from a company contact.

Smooth Transaction, thanks John

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I've had some lenses from both Japan and the USA recently, yes you will pay import duty, an admin fee and VAT on the duty, on a £245 lens, this totalled £45.

Ebay offers excellent protection these days so take the description as good and any differences, you've some comeback.

Both of mine were described as excellent, they were boxed with all the bits expected as new, in as new condition and presented the same and I saved a fortune.

Its very easy and straight forward, just bear in mind if S/H there's no warranty, you do have the protection of Ebay which is very much purchaser oriented, and if the seller says its in full working order, you have come back if that's incorrect.

Yes, I've purchased two 2nd hand lenses recently, you will pay 20% import duty on the invoice value and 20% VAT on the import duty only plus a handling fee by the importing agent such as Parcel Force etc.

They will send you a letter when the parcel had cleared customs but held until payment is received, there will be a reference number on this, go online to the relevant web address, insert the number, pay the invoice on a credit card and delivery will be in the next day or so.

I've saved over £1000 by buying carefully, boxed, virtually un-used kit recently and its in perfect condition with all accessories still in the original packaging.

I agree with RussV that the feet don't need to be in shot, the image is generally good, by losing the feet, would have allowed a closer crop either in camera or PP.

It looks like you've done some PP on the eyes of your subjects and that they are quite over whitened, particularly the boys eyes and the girls to his right.

Other than that, I like the overall composition and feel of the image combined with the low POV.

Hi, I have one that I could be persuaded to part with, it has the original caps, case, box, instructions etc

It does have the old sigma problem of a very small area of peeling paint, I'm not near the lens at the mo, but I would say no more than an area of about 10mm sq and it hasn't got worse over the last 5 years or so.

Let me know if you'd like an image, can post over the weekend.

Yes, its only just come back on, BT had some problems and this site and the ephotozine site amongst many wasn't available for ages. Fleabay wasn't available for a few hours as well this morning.

Hi Mike,

My apologies, I wasn't trying to hijack the thread, just add to it.