For me it was buying those stupid screw on wide angle and 2x telephoto lenses. What garbage! And my most recent where those two cheap tripods I bought for remote flash work. They couldn't even hold up a flash. And. like others, I have a decent collection of back packs and bags that just didn't do the trick.
Purchases you regret buying.
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rocketman122
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no I never made bad purchases. always bought things that might have been less quality but I always did research and knew what I needed. its usually when there is a problem with my workflow of photographing and then I look for a solution. I dont look at a product and wonder how it would be. I have a problem then go out and research for a product I need. like with the spiderpro mount. I realized at my last wedding that im just fed up with the strap falling off my shoulder and hardly using it, and need a solution for that.
my biggest awakening was moving from sigma glass to nikon glass. it was a huge eye opener. thats when my "damn I should have started with nikon" I also then took a huge interest in zeiss lenses. but those sigma lenses served me well. today though there is nothing nikon makes that intrigues me. in fact im more intrigued with sigma tamron and tokina actually. ironic how theyre offering better quality for less money.
my biggest awakening was moving from sigma glass to nikon glass. it was a huge eye opener. thats when my "damn I should have started with nikon" I also then took a huge interest in zeiss lenses. but those sigma lenses served me well. today though there is nothing nikon makes that intrigues me. in fact im more intrigued with sigma tamron and tokina actually. ironic how theyre offering better quality for less money.
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Michael J.
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Everything I bought was exact at the time it was fitting to my ability and knowledge of photography. Today I wouldn't buy a Nikon 55-300mm. But I use it still cos it serves me in a way which is not that bad.
I feel just the same about that lens.
sonicbuffalo_RIP
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I was new to photography and had just bought my D5100. I stopped at a mall in Florida with my wife and went into an electronics store. I asked the salesman if they had any close-up and wide angle lenses? He said, "heck yes...and went on to show me a lens that screwed on the filter threads. He explained you could use it both ways as a wide angle and a close up lens. He said the price was $700.00, but after seeing me hesitate, said he would sell it to me for $500.00. He said it was a heck of a bargain and showed me proudly that it was made in Japan. That crappy old lens was the worse thing I've ever bought. It screwed into the lens filter of my 18-55 mm lens. I'll never get shafted like that again. He was pure scum, and I was pure dumb. $500 and I ended up throwing it away. Totally useless. I was a dumb clod hopper. That lens produced the worst vignetting I've ever seen. He was a scam artist.
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Yeah, been there, done that
Mine lasted a bit longer then it was the D7000,not that there is anything wrong with the D5100 it just didnt feel right after the D70
RocketCowboy
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I bought a D5300 in May of last year, and had the D7100 in November. I don't think the D5300 is a bad camera, but the two big drivers that steered me that way (WiFi and GPS) were duds, so yeah ... if I had been a bit more focused I would have just done the D7100 and been happy. Still, now the wife has a great camera to use along with me, so that she's not always stealing my D7100!
HOYA CPL
Too much vignetting even when I shoot away from the sun (90deg angle or more). I haven't really experimented with it much since I purchased it, so I'm probably just doing something wrong . Either way, I'm not a fan of polarizers (unless it is for water reflections).
Too much vignetting even when I shoot away from the sun (90deg angle or more). I haven't really experimented with it much since I purchased it, so I'm probably just doing something wrong . Either way, I'm not a fan of polarizers (unless it is for water reflections).
If you are experiencing vignetting, then I assume you are using it a wide angle lens and that the depth of the filter from front to back is too thick. They make slim profile filters that are great on wide angle lenses.
I feel that way about some of my purchasing, in particular the 70-300mm. It is a decent lens, what I could afford at the time,got me started with wildlife photography and there are a lot of shots I wouldn't have got without it. Saying that, now I want a 300 f4 and the money the 70-300 cost would go a fair way to paying for it (older D version that is).