Fantastic!

I've just finished doing a review of the lens, so hopefully that will be published here and on EPZ very soon.

I'm sure Algi is just in mischievous mode, but the point jeallen01 makes could have a relevance to many people on this forum.

It's possibly connected to the requirement to sell something that's in their catalogue. If it's not, then a new catalogue item has to be created. I did that with a set of rare books from 1902. There was, nedless to say, no ISBN or catalogue entry for books published in 1902.

Similar things have happened at eBay, although so far second hand cameras and lenses have not been affected, especially if they can be classed as vintage.

It kills off the fun of these things for sure, and makes them increasingly difficult for semi-professional sellers.

I've diusguised your e-mail to protect against spammers.

Moved to Classified Ads.

I usually suggest no more than 1000 pixels wide on the longest side and less than 400K file size. This ensures the forum software doesn't resize for you and also that donload times are quite quick when people view your images.

Did you by any chance miss a message telling you a similar title had been used before and did you really want to post a new thread? If that happens you click add again and it should work.

Manfrotto 055 has served us well for a few years now.

Second hand is a good idea as you can find a better tripod that way, within your budget. There's no such thing as a cheap and good tripod, they need to be solid and sturdy. Otherwise, perhaps better to rely on ad hoc solutions and the SR system.

Back in those days those prices were unaffordable. Now the much higher prices are more affordable, just a consequence of being in a different place along the career path. Happy days though, buying what could be managed, dreaming about owning a 20mm lens, not really knowing that much about photography. So much waited to be discovered.

That may be a little less than normal and a bit more worrying....