anyone used valuebasket.com

[John G]

Hi all,
Looking to buy a new lens for my camera and wondered whether anyone on the forum has used a company called Valuebasket.com

http://www.valuebasket.com/en_GB/Nikon- ... tAodNXUALQ

[neilb]

Never used them but a quick google suggests they are a rebrand of simplyelectronics who were supposedly terrible.

[John G]

Thanks Neil, haven't heard of them either and cannot make the connection.

[neilb]

Couple of bits here and here about their setup.

[John G]

Thanks for that Neil, i'll not be using them then
Cheers John

[Paul]

John. Whats the reason of buying this lens mate?

[John G]

Hi Paul,
I bought a D3000 a few years ago, it came with the 18-55mm lens and I love it. I would like to be able to take close up photos of birds in the garden/wild etc and isollate certain parts of buildings with a very narrow depth of field, which the current lens cannot do at a distance, or even get close enough with. I bought a new sigma 70 - 300mm but i'm not very impressed with results, colours and clarity, especially anything after 135mm, and due to the length at the upper end of the zoom, its bloody heavy.

I thought that the optics on the nikon 55 - 200mm would be far superior to the sigma and a lot lighter to handle - what would you suggest?

Cheers John

[bms]

Hi Paul,
I bought a D3000 a few years ago, it came with the 18-55mm lens and I love it. I would like to be able to take close up photos of birds in the garden/wild etc and isollate certain parts of buildings with a very narrow depth of field, which the current lens cannot do at a distance, or even get close enough with. I bought a new sigma 70 - 300mm but i'm not very impressed with results, colours and clarity, especially anything after 135mm, and due to the length at the upper end of the zoom, its bloody heavy.

I thought that the optics on the nikon 55 - 200mm would be far superior to the sigma and a lot lighter to handle - what would you suggest?

Cheers John

Just bought exactly the same lens JohnG. Waiting for it to arrive...

[John G]

Where did you buy yours from martin?

[bms]

Where did you buy yours from martin?

Same place. As it happened I emailed them immediately after I read the thread to chase delivery and have had a personalised email reply already saying they are waiting for stock fulfilment and I should have despatch this week coming. No problems thus far and from ordering I was aware delivery was a good 10 days plus so my expectations weren't for a quick delivery and that was fine with me.