Out of all those lenses and cameras I've bought over the years, nothing was bought as used. It's not that I'm against the idea of buying used but it just feels uncomfortable.
When I think about it, in terms of economic approach, it seems to be the silliest thing to do as I only use them for a couple of years. In other words, paying full price for the lens only to use it for a couple of years max. then to sell it seems silly. Had I bought them used, even after years of usage, I could've actually sold them for the price that I've bought. More than that, I could've actually made money as resale values of lenses has gone up due to the Japanese Yen being damn strong.
Thinking about all those, I decided to go for a used one this time. I hope everything turns out o.k.
Anyway, I was wondering how the buying-used experiences were like.
EDIT: The reason I feel uncomfortable buying used equipment is because I don't know anything about what's ever happned to it: a lens that looks perfect outside might have been dropped thus breaking internal alignment. It might have been calibrated for a camera that has AF calibration problem. It might have been cleaned with Windex. A camera that looks fine might have been out in the strong rain thus making internal board to rust. Heck, it might have been in the shower stream (Read: Fuzzy's D300.) Come to think of it, my friend's Nikon 80-200mm that looks perfect outside had this problem where more than half of internal glasses dislocating. I'm sure he didn't mention it when he sold it.
When I think about it, in terms of economic approach, it seems to be the silliest thing to do as I only use them for a couple of years. In other words, paying full price for the lens only to use it for a couple of years max. then to sell it seems silly. Had I bought them used, even after years of usage, I could've actually sold them for the price that I've bought. More than that, I could've actually made money as resale values of lenses has gone up due to the Japanese Yen being damn strong.
Thinking about all those, I decided to go for a used one this time. I hope everything turns out o.k.
Anyway, I was wondering how the buying-used experiences were like.
EDIT: The reason I feel uncomfortable buying used equipment is because I don't know anything about what's ever happned to it: a lens that looks perfect outside might have been dropped thus breaking internal alignment. It might have been calibrated for a camera that has AF calibration problem. It might have been cleaned with Windex. A camera that looks fine might have been out in the strong rain thus making internal board to rust. Heck, it might have been in the shower stream (Read: Fuzzy's D300.) Come to think of it, my friend's Nikon 80-200mm that looks perfect outside had this problem where more than half of internal glasses dislocating. I'm sure he didn't mention it when he sold it.
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