09-30-2011, 06:19 PM
[quote name='anyscreenamewilldo' timestamp='1317388712' post='11999']
....can't answer your question about testing ... but i've learnt a thing or two about buying lenses over the years, and recently i bought a new lens - put the shop demo lens on the camera and it tested beautifully (looking at the files on my nice convenient laptop) - then - "very good sir, we have a lovely new one of these fresh in it's box, please take this one" - hmmm, well alright then .... if i can also test it first - so, put nice new lens on the camera, took the same shots with it outside the shop and sadly it looked like absolute s*** - so i said, you have a sale if i can buy the demo lens but no sale if i have to take the nice new lens in the box ... and the nice shop keeper sold me their demo lens (nice shop keeper) - and it's a beautiful lens - buyer beware
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I like this, asw! <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />
Thanks
Ian
....can't answer your question about testing ... but i've learnt a thing or two about buying lenses over the years, and recently i bought a new lens - put the shop demo lens on the camera and it tested beautifully (looking at the files on my nice convenient laptop) - then - "very good sir, we have a lovely new one of these fresh in it's box, please take this one" - hmmm, well alright then .... if i can also test it first - so, put nice new lens on the camera, took the same shots with it outside the shop and sadly it looked like absolute s*** - so i said, you have a sale if i can buy the demo lens but no sale if i have to take the nice new lens in the box ... and the nice shop keeper sold me their demo lens (nice shop keeper) - and it's a beautiful lens - buyer beware
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I like this, asw! <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />
Thanks
Ian