I'm selling another lens, This time the tamron 90mm f 2.8 di macro (canon fit) Looking for £275. This lens is boxed in mint condition.
and takes pics like this
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3395/5848744227_e639da6838_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteberry/5848744227/)
Butterfly (http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteberry/5848744227/) by Peter J Berry (http://www.flickr.com/people/peteberry/), on Flickr
(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6015/5940058751_b3007fe90e_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteberry/5940058751/)
Bee on Flower (http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteberry/5940058751/) by Peter J Berry (http://www.flickr.com/people/peteberry/), on Flickr
The pictures say it all and if it wasn't a Canon fit I'd be all over it in a shot. It would also make a really nice portrait lens as well IMHO
I would love to add this lens to my collection but the Mrs will kill me if I bought it at £275. Particularly as someone just bought me a Macro tube set =(. I have a friend that has this lens for a pentax fit and he has some very nice shots with it.
Let me know if its going for around the £200 mark though as I then I can justify it to the Mrs as a friend just bought some of my old kit off me for a a little less than that figure.
DZ.
Hmm, Nice lens, would kill for such macro foto's.
Although, new its 310 euros, so sorry 275 gbp is to steep for me. Around 200-225 (incl shipment) i'll be interested.
Unless I have searched for the wrong lens. (Tamron SP AF 90mm F/2.8 Di Macro)
Edit: with which body were those pictures mate btw? Can't take my eyes of them.
£250 would be better inc PP. This is a uk spec lens not a grey HK import. I'll throw in a UV filter as well.
Body is a 7D. It's a fine lens. I just want to go L
Very slightly off topic but while often a grey import is fine (although new it won't have a working guarantee) sometimes they are actually reject stock that Canon, Nikon etc won't sell as new. The manufacturers will let them be sold but only when they are clearly boxed and marked as reject stock and with the expectation that the price is significantly (30-40%) lower than retail. Sadly quite a few grey imports are these reject products that masquerade as being brand new. Worse than that they might be fully rejected stock where the manufacturer will not guarantee the quility of the lens at all. usually these lenses get destroyed or broken for parts but sadly sometimes (and in spite of the manufacturers best efforts) they end up disappearing and turning up in the grey market.There's no real way to tell. Bought new from a reputable UK supplier this lens ships for about £300-£350 so a new lens for £225 is almost certainly going to be a reject stock item. It might be bankrupt stock but it also might have been in a truck that rolled over on the motorway or survived a warehouse fire. There's no way to tell. Personally I would steer clear of grey stock, there's just too many times the lens has proved to be substandard when looking at the images it produces. And then good luck trying to get a refund from the supplier.
just my 10c worth.