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Canon 20D - Canon 70mm-300mm Telephoto Lens!

Safeway

Safeway

Lifer
So I was at Fry's last night, and I saw this sweet lens. It was fvcking $600. Today, I was at a pawn shop and saw the exact lens marked $250. Since we knew the owner, we paid $150 out the door (meaning they adjusted the actual price so that price+tax = $150.00).

This is a brand new, still sealed, telephoto lens. AF/MF etc. Works great. The only part that I don't like is the origin of the lens:

We have known the owner of this pawn shop for 10 years, and we actually asked about the source. He said that it was a photographer that was planning on taking it out of pawn (meaning he used it to get a loan), but wasn't able to make loan payments in time. He had just pulled the lens (took out of the back storage room for pawned items) that morning. I feel bad about that, but his loss, my gain? I am just thinking that if we didn't buy it, someone else would have.
 
you'll be fine. that's a sweet deal. obviously, if the photographer was willing to part with that item (rather than something else), it wasn't as sentimental.
 
Well, I'm an avid pawn shopper. My dad worked at Big State Pawn, which was bought out by Cash America - so he is the one that got me hooked. I also stumbled across a brand new (protective plastic still on outside logo and screen) Dell 600m. It wasn't a top of the line model, but it was marked $400. I am considering haggling with them over it.

The dude that showed it to me knew nothing about computers. He said "it's an old one, 1600 mhz only". It is a Centrino Pent-m laptop at 1.6Ghz, with an extra battery included. 1.6Ghz P-m is hella good!

Other bargains include tools (DeWalt 18-volt set (2 drills, recip saw, 2 flashlights, and scroll saw, 5 batteries) for $200), knives (3 Benchmade for $15 each, new, $180 for each), and countless other stuff.
 
😀 If 1600mhz is an old pc...I hope people never really learn how to use computers! I want them to stay ignorant 🙂
 
What Canon lens specifically? The 75-300 EF or the 75-300 IS or the 70-300 DO IS. The first can be had for under $200 while the second is more like $400. The DO is near $1200.
 
Originally posted by: Safeway
It's the IS. We have a wide-angle IS DO though.
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Good deal then. However, Canon only makes 2 DO lenses, the 70-300 and the 400 f/4, both of which are telephoto lenses. DO stands for diffractive optics and is a technology used to reduce the size of long telephoto lenses. IOW, I don't see a DO WA in Canon's future but anything is possible I guess 😉.

 
I'm not the camera guru =P So I was painfully wrong.

I'm pretty happy with Canon atm - I have a G3 and my dad purchased the 20D. We bought a battery grip and had to go through the trouble of returning it to the the faulty design/production. The battery contacts would slip loose due to a crappy connection between grip and camera.
 
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