Deal or No Deal

Id go with the new one from BH

I just typed 5 paragraphs to respond to your original post, and then when I went to post I saw your last post. Never mind my 5 paragraphs now, I'll just say......congrats on the new purchase. You'll love it!

Happy Shooting and congrats on your new camera.

Trique Daddi

I confess to knowing little about the 30D, but how did they "lock" the lens to the camera? I wasn't aware of any locking feature other than the usual attachment mechanism.[/QUOTE]

There was a metal collar affixed to the lens to keep it on.

Apollo11 wrote in post #3920834
I just typed 5 paragraphs to respond to your original post, and then when I went to post I saw your last post. Never mind my 5 paragraphs now, I'll just say......congrats on the new purchase. You'll love it!

Well I would be real interested in what you had to say.

Sounds like the photographic version of a laptop security chain.... but MUCH smaller ; physical anti-theft barrier. Yeah, there is no real "lens lock."

Let us know how things work out. I'm probably just being conservatively over-paranoid when it comes to demo gear, and that all will work out well for you.

extrememc wrote in post #3921001
I confess to knowing little about the 30D, but how did they "lock" the lens to the camera? I wasn't aware of any locking feature other than the usual attachment mechanism.

There was a metal collar affixed to the lens to keep it on.