Accidentally ... I placed another order

Damn. I earn a pretty good amount of money and I thought hard about whether the $370 Tamron was worth it to me. For a student to buy a $3700 lens by accident, with no clear use for it, seems... um... an interesting choice. You can say no!

Then again if it's your hobby and you don't mind working for 400 hours (guess) or so to pay for it, go for it!

commando wrote:
darn. I earn a pretty good amount of money and I thought hard about whether the $370 Tamron was worth it to me. For a student to buy a $3700 lens by accident, with no clear use for it, seems... um... an interesting choice. You can say no!

Then again if it's your hobby and you don't mind working for 400 hours (guess) or so to pay for it, go for it!

"no clear use for it"? Dude, you haven't been here long enough

I shoot sports, enough said

Geez... I have a $3,200.00 lens I have only used once...

As for SGU,...

http://gu.smugmug.com/​Sports/15486

sGu wrote:
"no clear use for it"? Dude, you haven't been here long enough

I shoot sports, enough said

Apologies if that came over as offensive, it was just an observation, it looks like you were almost railroaded into buying it by that store. Of course I was completely wrong (which isn't that unusual)...

And damn, those are good photos! I'll look forward to seeing what you can do with even better glass

commando wrote:

sGu wrote:
"no clear use for it"? Dude, you haven't been here long enough

I shoot sports, enough said

Apologies if that came over as offensive, it was just an observation, it looks like you were almost railroaded into buying it by that store. Of course I was completely wrong (which isn't that unusual)...

And darn, those are good photos! I'll look forward to seeing what you can do with even better glass

No worries, none taken

I'm in a mood so good that I can hardly see me stop smiling

A friend of mine lives about 10 houses down from me, and I can see right in his front window. With a lens like that I could give him photos of himself. Sent from an anonymous email address it could be quite shocking to get pics of yourself at home!

it was only yesterday when I went to calumet and almost cracked under pressure when I saw a 20Dbox and a bg-E3 box next to it... :P

Congrats on your purchase. Good luck paying for it. (if that's the case, I wonder if I should order a 1DsMKII 8) )

The only way anyone would get my 300 2.8L IS is to pry it from my cold dead hands. It is without a doubt the best long prime lens that is in the current Canon line-up, even better than my 500 4L IS.

It is still magic with a 1.4TC and you will be amazed at how well it holds up with a 2.0TC

I've seen your shot with 300mm + 2x TC, and was amazed at quality of it!

Once I get it, I'll do some test shots and post some results, can't wait!

I think they arrest you for doing things like that :P

Not if I cover my tracks well - I can make myself pretty hard to find, electronically, using anonymous proxies, hotmail accounts, and such

The hard part would be concealing where the photo was taken from. No, try it and you'll be corresponding from a whole new location where the only glass you'll be loking through has chicken-wire embedded in it.

Oooh, hadn't though of that. Obviously it's not a serious idea anyway, it was a joke while we were drinking in his apartment. I remarked I could see in his front window from my house, and could take photos if I had a bigger lens. I'd probably need a 400, which I don't have anyway.

Try living up to your name - a little crawling through the weeds/woods to get into a good, neutral location . . .

:{)#

Actually my name relates to underware...