Have you regreted buying any gear?

9 years 5 months ago #412183 by H Rocky
What stands out in your camera bag as a bad buy?


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9 years 5 months ago #412185 by KCook
Softbox.  Umbrellas are so much easier to live with.

Kelly Cook

Canon 50D, Olympus PL2
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9 years 5 months ago #412187 by J Hemingway
You know what Kelly, I'm completely the opposite.  I would say umbrellas are my 'regrets'.  Although I think 'regret' is a strong word to use here.  I simply don't use them.  I do however enjoy my softboxes. 


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9 years 5 months ago #412230 by Flash Steven
That question is tricky, for the most part I'll say no. 

Canon 7D w/grip, Canon 40D, Canon 70-200mm f2.8 IS L Canon MPE 65mm f2.8 macro; Sigma 70-300mm f2.8; Sigma 150mm f2.8 macro; Sigma 8-16mm f4.5-5.6
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9 years 5 months ago #412257 by Don Fischer
Pretty easy, Polaroid back for my RB 67. Great idea but hard to find the film quite often and expensive and if I remember I couldn't get it in the same ISO I was using with film. These days when I shoot it, I take along a digital and use it to test exposure. But it's a great idea and I got one! One other thing was a studio light set up. Worked great by I so seldom had a use for them they weren't worth spending the money on. Had an idea years ago I'd start doing portrait's, that fizzled! I have a brother in Michigan that is a pro, been one all his life. But he'd always managed studio's for other's. Economy went to hell and he struck out on his own but couldn't come up with a set of light's so I sent them to him. Come to think of it, that wasn't such a bad buy, got to help out my brother!


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9 years 5 months ago #412259 by effron
Most of my tripods and camera bags were regrettable. There is NO decent photo store within one hundred miles so I buy online, and have made a few errors.......:angry:

Why so serious?
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9 years 5 months ago #412271 by Ben Vanderbilt
ha ha ha  :agree: a couple of my first tripods 


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9 years 5 months ago #412273 by NicoIa
Almost everything I bought trying to save money, in particular cheap filters.


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9 years 5 months ago #412295 by garyrhook
Anything purchased in haste, without careful thought as to utility, cost vs. return, and quality. I don't really care to go into details :S


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9 years 5 months ago #412340 by KCook

effron wrote: . . . There is NO decent photo store within one hundred miles so I buy online, and have made a few errors.......:angry:


Ouch!  That really sucks.  Even here in Phoenix we are down to just 3 decent photo stores.

Kelly

Canon 50D, Olympus PL2
kellycook.zenfolio.com/

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9 years 5 months ago #412353 by Joves

KCook wrote:

effron wrote: . . . There is NO decent photo store within one hundred miles so I buy online, and have made a few errors.......:angry:


Ouch!  That really sucks.  Even here in Phoenix we are down to just 3 decent photo stores.

Kelly

Is that store down on McDowell near I-17 still open? I thought I saw that it was closed.
For me it has been mostly lenspens, and other cleaning wonders. That is mostly because I either lose them, or break them. And any liquid solution sitting in my bag somehow mysteriously opens, and empties out. 


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9 years 5 months ago #412395 by KCook

Joves wrote:

KCook wrote: Even here in Phoenix we are down to just 3 decent photo stores.

Kelly

Is that store down on McDowell near I-17 still open? I thought I saw that it was closed.
For me it has been mostly lenspens, and other cleaning wonders. That is mostly because I either lose them, or break them. And any liquid solution sitting in my bag somehow mysteriously opens, and empties out. 


Nope.  I think the McDowell near I-17 outfit had a re-incarnation in downtown Scottsdale -

www.photomartid.com/

For studio gear their stuff is almost entirely Promaster.  Which is Ok gear, just not super competitive on price.  On the positive side they do stock Fujifilm cameras.  Those are kind of hard to find now.

Kelly

Canon 50D, Olympus PL2
kellycook.zenfolio.com/

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9 years 5 months ago #412432 by Glen Martin
Good question, had me thinking.    Just a Hoya filter I bought as a quick cheap replacement while I was traveling. 


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9 years 5 months ago #412476 by Soccer Mom
Just a Viewsonic monitor, does that count?

Canon 7D, 18-55mm, 55-250mm, 70-200mm L f/2.8, 100mm and 17-55mm f/2.8
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9 years 5 months ago #412533 by Vahrenkamp
Nothing major I'm happy to say 


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