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TDSImages wrote: I have a 5D MKIII and yes that is disappointing but I still love the camera. Jun 21 14 08:25 am Link Jakov Markovic wrote: You are too kind. Jun 21 14 01:06 pm Link I got stuck with a couple of Sigma lenses (probably 50mm macro and 24mm wide) when I switched to digital because they didn't work with my 20D. Apparently the lenses couldn't be rechipped. I'm also unloading my Powershot G12. I was planning on using it as a backup but it is too expensive for how little I use it. Jun 21 14 03:20 pm Link FotoArcade wrote: I had bought the G10, and regretted it ,,, the damned ISO noise at iso 400 and above was astounding... Jun 21 14 09:40 pm Link It's been a VERY long time (like over 20 years) since I've been disappointed by a photographic related purchase - because I'm not naive enough to believe that I can get comparable quality by purchasing a brand that costs substantially less. I also know much of the tricks these companies use to convince less-educated customers that their products are equivalent (or even in league). After so many years, listening to their marketing dribble is like reading a Nigerian scammer's email, preying on potential customer's deep desire to believe it could be true. Jun 21 14 09:53 pm Link I have never regretted a photographic purchase. I did research along the way. I eventually sold some gear when I moved up the equipment ladder but at the time of purchase all of the items served their purpose. Scott Jun 22 14 09:09 am Link Reflectors. All 3 of them. Jun 22 14 08:34 pm Link If you've ever bought a "Cheap Ring light," you know what I mean. ;-) Jun 22 14 08:38 pm Link Wing light diffuser I thought, why not try it... Its cheap and way over priced.. One of the reflectors was torn and the strap that goes around your speedlite started to come loose and unravel... I told the guy who created it on facebook that it was broken.. I had a record of it being paid through pay pal.. But the guy asked if I had a receipt, I did not know what happen to it.. So I got screwed... I told the guy I should be on your records of purchasing it... he never answered back..... Rip off................ Jun 23 14 08:43 pm Link I bought a Pentax program Plus (body) in 1985 that was a complete waist of cash. Nothing since then however. Jun 24 14 11:47 am Link Barry Kidd Photography wrote: I still have a Pentax ME super my father bought me way back when... I just can't bring myself to get rid of it. Still works. Don't use it.. Jun 24 14 07:12 pm Link ALSO I regret buying CHEAP NO NAME BRAND rechargeable batteries. Jun 28 14 12:56 am Link Locutus wrote: My experience has been quite the opposite. All the 3rd party batteries I have purchased (same brand) have out performed my Canon originals in every way. Jun 28 14 05:57 am Link Ring flash. Doesn't fit my lighting style. I keep trying to like it, but it keeps fighting me. Jun 28 14 06:08 pm Link A Tamron 18-270 lens. I wanted it so I would have a general purpose walk around lens for traveling. I got it used, and it has an issue where, for reasons I have yet to discover, the aperture changes on it's own to f96 and becomes unusable. It eventually starts working again, but damned if I can figure out what's causing it. I don't think it's worth trying to get it fixed, so it's just a lemon. Before that, my first lighting system. My first digital camera (and this was in 1998) had no pc port and no other way to trigger a flash, so instead I got a Photoflex Starlight. 2000 watts of incredibly hot light. Turn that thing on and an average room would increase by 40 degrees in about 15 minutes. Jun 28 14 06:45 pm Link  NiceAug 09 14 06:08 am Link 2 1/4 x 3 1/2 Speed Graphic. . . sure looked like a 4x5 in the pictures. Aug 09 14 07:42 am Link Joe Miglionico wrote: My 18 to 270 caused errors on my Canon 40D and not very sharp at the long end Aug 09 14 07:47 am Link I absolutely hate my SB-900 I saw the comment about the 580EX earlier. You would expect more from a $500 flash. (Not overheating, better recycle times, etc). I still hold on to my SB-800 because for some magical reason they don't suffer from the same problems as the newer flashes. Also I have borrowed sigma lenses from some friends and I don't know if it is the optics or the coatings, but the images from them are horrid. Aug 09 14 08:32 am Link Also Nikon 24-70 2.8 was trying to decide between that and 70-200 2.8 thought the 70-200 was too heavy and expensive and that the 24-70 would meet my needs fine, I was wrong now I am stuck with my cheap ass 55-200 vr as my telezoom. Aug 09 14 08:40 am Link Nakrani Studios wrote: Ditto. Aug 09 14 08:41 am Link A Nikon N80 when they came out, and were in huge demand. I had a 70/ hr week job and it sat in a camera bag for years. I used it a few times then suddenly everything switched to digital. When I got back into photography it was basically worthless. I sold it and the kit lens for $150. Ouch. Aug 09 14 11:21 am Link My first camera, which in turn caused me to buy my second camera, which in turn caused me to buy... Aug 09 14 11:21 am Link My only regret is a flash mounted bouncer. I would rather hold a bare flash off camera with one hand then use that bouncer. I do kind of shake my head at the purchase of a set of 10 stop ND filters. They are good B+W filters. There's nothing wrong with them; 3 stops, I can use... 10 stops... I'm not sure what I was thinking. Maybe I'll shoot a landscape someday.... Aug 09 14 11:34 am Link My Mercedes S550 to carry around my gear. I should have bought the S600! Aug 09 14 11:44 am Link johnreefphotography wrote: DUHHH everyone knows to buy the S600.. Aug 09 14 11:51 am Link J O H N A L L A N wrote: +1 Aug 09 14 11:52 am Link Before they started making larger screens on cameras, I got an Epson P-4000 viewer to view and for storage (80G). It worked great on location. I could shoot like crazy, upload to the P-4000, format the cards and keep shooting. (This is also when cards were expensive). Now it can't read my larger capacity SD cards. Aug 09 14 12:10 pm Link • 4x B+W ND filter (should have gotten a 64x). • 77mm Hoya Polarizing filter (should have spent more and bought a slim filter). • Graduated filter and Coken filter holder. I never use this anymore. Aug 09 14 03:17 pm Link TimothyH wrote: COKIN filter holder, lol i still have one from,,, DECADES ago... dont use it Aug 10 14 07:26 am Link ALSO i regret buying canon G series PnS. G11 Sep 20 14 04:33 pm Link Never been an equipment junkie. Sep 20 14 04:44 pm Link Cheap lenses, but they still work and provide learning, just wasted $. Cheap strobes cause they don't work well and impede progress. I totally believe the newbie advice, 'Don't buy new gear until you learn to use what you already have', but some gear just delays progress. Sep 20 14 08:53 pm Link Ringlight. Almost impossible to take a very bad picture or a very good one. Sep 20 14 09:05 pm Link Vintagevista wrote: HA! Sep 20 14 09:12 pm Link Windows 8.1 Sep 20 14 09:30 pm Link Reflectors. Need an assistant or a super fancy stand for them to work. May as well just bring a strobe. Sep 20 14 10:27 pm Link Locutus wrote: Same regret and the only Canon device I have purchased. I found ISO 100 too noisy and any fanciful ideas of respectable resolution in vegetation more than 10 yards away, well. It is my doorstop item and now the lens has pitted without any provocation. Sep 20 14 11:37 pm Link Probably the Canon 70-200mm f/4.0L IS USM. I was using a Canon Rebel and it was always too long for what I wanted to do. I only really used it to good effect a couple of times, and now that I'm switching over to Nikon I can't get rid of it because everyone wants the f/2.8... Oddly enough. I just picked up a Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, but I'm using a full frame D600&D610 now, not a crop sensor, and it's f/2.8 so it's better for lower light, so I'm hoping that lens will get more use. Either that, or I just never learn. Sep 21 14 12:29 am Link Although I could give you a list as long as your arm of cameras, lenses and camera gear I have regretted buying, the one camera at the top of my list would be the Leica M3. I realise in the hands of a master, the Leica rangefinder cameras can be wonderful but in my hands not really. I don’t have those sort of hands. I think I got off to a bad start when I went to the Leica UK’s headquarters for a days induction course and I realised what a dreadful bunch of snobs the Leica people and some of the owners are. I didn’t ever want to be like that myself so I was negatively disposed to the Leica right from the off. The 1.4 Summilux lens was wonderful but the 90mm Summicron was IMHO way too heavy for such a light body. I know some Leica M series users reckon they can almost instantly change films, one handed, in the dark (and often under fire) but I never could. For me, every film put through that camera took me twice as long as one with any of my Nikons and I usually could not spare that time. I think the only way I could have learned to love the M3 was to use it and only it and to forget everything else. I realise this says far more about me than the equipment but, embarrassingly, I have to admit that I prefer my Canon s100 to my Leica M3. Sep 21 14 02:28 am Link |
