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Nikon DSLR Gear featured sale on eBay (254 options)

eBay has created a featured Nikon camera gear sale with a total of 254 items participating. You can filter them using the options on the left hand side over there (DSLRs, bundles, compacts, lenses, flashes). Unfortunately my brain is a 900 MHz Celeron, I can’t go through 250+ items and price-check them like that, so this is a DIY adventure (in other words, if I wait until I can go through them all before I post this, I will probably never post this).

July 19, 2015 Filed Under: dslr deals, nikon Tagged With: , , ,

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  1. S.W. Anderson says
    July 20, 2015 at 11:53 am

    Went and looked, and saw mostly what I expected: a bundle extravaganza. Bundled items can provide someone just starting out with a DSLR some additional toys to play with, albeit at risk of playing with them instead of really learning the camera and its most essential capabilities. Bundling can be a powerful inducement in a highly competitive marketplace if the price is right. Or, it can be a strategy for unloading a whole lot of low-quality flotsam and jetsam at an inflated price.

    Going all the way back to my earliest interest in photography and enthusiast cameras, the late 1950’s, many mail-order dealers ran ads in camera magazines with impossibly low prices in big, bold type. Down below, in tiny type, careful readers would see the catch: “Sold only with case and flash.” Those could run up the price of a $69 camera — fairly expensive in those days — by another $25-$45.

    First-time DSLR buyers should be leery of off-brand add-on “tele” and “wide-angle” lenses that screw into the filter threads on the front of a kit zoom. Brand-X supplementary lenses of that kind typically degrade image quality a lot. Bundled lens-cleaning kits can be useful if used with care. Cheap UV, polarizing and fluorescent lighting filters probably won’t be used enough to harm that many images, and the UV if left on will help protect the lens. Lens shades are a good idea. A light, flimsy tripod can even be useful in a pinch. So can an inexpensive, non-TTL flash.

    But really, I recommend going for a clean deal on the camera and then, over time, assembling a kit of better-quality accessories as the need for them is felt. That way, you know what you’re paying for the camera. And as you acquire some accessories, you have a better chance to know if you’re paying fair prices for things you really need.

    • 1001nc says
      July 22, 2015 at 9:12 pm

      yeah, calling those cheap add-on lenses as “bundle with 4 lenses” is one of those things that annoys me to the point where I may be willing to make a vow to never buy anything from anyone using that technique 🙂

      Those are probably marketed to hoarders and accessories addicts! Although they could be handy if one is the “camera expert” in their circle that everyone goes to demanding whatever accessory they may need. So they can hand them off that accessory bundle stuff instead 🙂