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Monday - shipping notices with tracking numbers... items to arrive mid week via UPS
Later that evening a personal email from one of the sale reps in response to a question of mine
Butch, I have dealt with B&H for perhaps fifteen years, especially for underwater equipment, and cannot recommend them for, in terms of their knowledgeability and service; and I am glad that things worked out well.
I am not use to being able to be so far away, my goodness this lens is nice.
Thanks Liz
David, at one point I was starting to worry.... They issued a refund instead of a replacement. When i contacted them they said there were no more in stock. That worried me.... but they told me to hold on for just a sec.... about 5 mins later they came back and said, we've found one and it will be on 2nd day air.
This one looks freaking new.... I think there is a way to check it's "odometer" but dunno how yet
Butch
The only funny experience I had -- for one unaccustomed to such holidays -- with B&H, was an issue one September some years back, when I tried to contact them -- and they were closed for a week due to Rosh Hashanah. They have a quite elaborate holiday closure schedule . . .
Looking good
I can't rlly reccomend a cpl for macro shots though.
Usually there's not enough light allrdy to make the shots i want and a cpl only makes it darker.
Overexposure etc is easily fixed in a program like camera raw (if you shoot in raw mode, it wont rlly help if you shoot jpegs)
I wanted a nice one for fall foliage shots, so i ordered a Hoya Pro1 a couple days ago
not the most expensive by far, but not the cheapest by far neither
I havent used it that much, it doesnt fit most of my lenses.
So far i've found that it does help a lot when shooting landscape pics with very bright sun/sky.
Other then that the only thing it did for me was make stuff darker.
I've tried the rotating thing once or twice, but i've never seen any difference.
Im going to need a new one for my new lens wich has 72mm thread, gonna go for a cheap one this time.
One more thing, theres some weird coating on there wich makes it very hard to clean with just water and random cloth (tshirt or something)
Unless its really absorbing, you will get lots of stripes on it.
I think the rotating thing goes back to the days of linear pl filters, (thinking back to my 35mm SLR days)
I just assumed that with circular that was an obsolete technique
It still works, rotating it influences how much light it blocks.
You can check it out by holding it between you and a mirror and then look through it while you turn the ring.
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