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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

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

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

Couple of bits here and here about their setup.

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

John. Whats the reason of buying this lens mate?

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

John G;65559 wrote: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...

Where did you buy yours from martin?

John G;65575 wrote: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.