10-01-2011, 08:14 AM
[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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Many years ago, when a student, I worked in a camera shop in vacations.
Yes, it's just a 'business' like any other. Any empty camera boxes were stored, then 'mint' secondhand cameras were sold as new. That particular practice would be more difficult nowadays, but it just illustrates that what could happen probably does.
Actually, I suppose that's little worse than reselling the 'dog' lenses returned nowadays. They're not refurbished, they're not thrown away, either.
....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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Many years ago, when a student, I worked in a camera shop in vacations.
Yes, it's just a 'business' like any other. Any empty camera boxes were stored, then 'mint' secondhand cameras were sold as new. That particular practice would be more difficult nowadays, but it just illustrates that what could happen probably does.
Actually, I suppose that's little worse than reselling the 'dog' lenses returned nowadays. They're not refurbished, they're not thrown away, either.