Mint Canon 5D Mark III for Sale and Used Gear Sale Info on the Old Nikon 600

What’s Up?

After a slow start, we did well on the Condors today. We are at dinner now and will be getting up early and heading to the coast for Inca Tern and Peruvian Pelicans and more …

I will have intermittent internet access for the rest of my South American adventure. I get back home late on December 25, 2016. Best and great picture making, artie

Gear Questions and Advice

Too many folks attending BAA IPTs and dozens of the folks whom I see in the field, and on BPN, are–out of ignorance–using the wrong gear, especially when it comes to tripods and more especially, tripod heads… Please know that I am always glad to answer your gear questions via e-mail.

Selling Your Used Gear Through BIRDS AS ART

Selling your used (or like-new) photo gear through the BAA Blog or via a BAA Online Bulletin is a great idea. We charge only a 5% commission. One of the more popular used gear for sale sites charges a minimum of 20%. Plus assorted fees! Yikes. The minimum item price here is $500 (or less for a $25 fee). If you are interested please e-mail with the words Items for Sale Info Request cut and pasted into the Subject line :). Stuff that is priced fairly–I offer free pricing advice, usually sells in no time flat. In the past few months, we have sold just about everything in sight. Do know that prices on some items like the EOS-1D Mark IV, the old Canon 500mm, the EOS-7D, and the original 400mm IS DO lens have been dropping steadily. You can see all current listings by clicking here or by clicking on the Used Photo Gear tab on the yellow-orange tab on the right side of the menu bar above.

Recent Sales

• IPT veteran and good friend Mark Hardymon sold his used Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f/4G ED VR lens in excellent condition for the by far BAA record low price of $5700 in late November.
• IPT veteran Mark Overgaard sold his Canon EF600 f/4L IS II USM lens in excellent plus condition for $9,295 in mid-November.
• IPT veteran Larry Master sold his Canon EF600 f/4L IS II USM lens in excellent plus condition for $9,295 in mid-November.
• Bill Hill sold his like-new Canon EOS 5DS R for an incredibly low $2599 five minute after it was listed in early November.
• Bob Serling sold his Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM lens in near-mint condition for $4449 and his older, Canon EF300mm f/2.8L IS lens in excellent plus condition for the shock-the-world price of $2399 within a day or three of listing them here. Why? He wanted to sell them and listened to my pricing advice.
• Multiple IPT veteran Larry Master sold his Canon EOS 24-105mm f/4 L IS lens in excellent condition for $549 to a private buyer.
• Joseph Higbee sold a Canon EF 2X III Extender in excellent condition for $349 an hour after it was listed on September 26. Soon thereafter he sold a Canon EF 70-200mm f2.8L IS II USM lens in excellent condition for $1449 and a Canon EOS 7D in excellent condition for $299.
• On one day in late September Steve Zarate sold his Canon EOS 7D camera in very good condition for a BAA record low price of $279 and his Canon EOS 7D II in excellent condition for a BAA record low price of $799.
• Joe Alexander sold his Canon EF 100-400mm L IS USM lens in excellent plus condition for $599in late September when he also sold one of each of these: Canon EF 1.4x III and Canon EF 2x III Extender in excellent plus condition for $249 each within an hour of listing them. When he first contacted me he had them priced, way, way, way too low…
• Yours truly, Arthur Morris, sold one of his two Canon EOS 5DS R bodies in excellent condition but for a very small, very fine sort of x-shaped crack in the upper-right corner of the top LCD screen, for $2549 in late September.
• Ed Hutchinson sold his “old five,” the Canon EF 500mm f/4 L IS USM lens in like-new condition for $3795 in late September.

New Listings

Canon EOS 5D Mark III

William B Ellison, Jr. is offering a used Canon EOS 5D Mark III in near mint condition for the BAA record-low price of $1497.

The sale includes the original box, the computer disks, the unused camera body strap, the front cap, and all the cables. The body has less than 10,000 actuations. The sale includes ground shipping to all US addresses by major courier. You camera will not ship until your check clears unless other arrangements are made.

Please contact William via e-mail or by phone at 1-843-884-9595 (Eastern time zone).

I have used the 5D III for birds on occasion with excellent results, even with the 2X III TC and the 600 II. It was my go-to dSLR for flowers, landscapes, and Urbex photography for many years until I replaced it first with the 5DS R and then with the 5D Mark IV. In my experience, the quality of the image files is superb. . artie

Used Gear Sale Info on the Old Nikon 600

For about a year, the Used Gear Page had three Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f/4G ED VR Lenses listed. One new in the box for $7,999, one in excellent condition for $6699, and one for $5999 (after a $1,000 price reduction in mid-September of this year. The latter finally sold for $5,700 about two weeks ago …

The question is “Why doesn’t this lens sell?” The older version of the Nikon 600, the Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f/4G ED VR lens, weighs 11.16 lbs. It is still in production and sells new at B&H for $9,394.00. The newer lighter version, the Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f/4E FL ED VR lens (designated by “E” rather than “G” after the f/4) weighs only 8.4 pounds but costs $12,296.95.

Here are my theories:

#1: As only serious well-heeled photographers are generally in the market for these weapons of mass destruction, they will opt for the lighter version regardless of the cost. Three plus pounds is a huge weight difference. Nikon was light-years behind Canon in reducing the weight of the various versions of their 600s. When they finally got around to it, they did it well: their latest version is actually lighter than the Canon 600mm f/4L IS II.

#2: Though I make it perfectly clear on a regular basis that good photographers make good images no matter the gear they use, many blog regulars use Canon gear and thus the majority of Used Gear Sales deal with the white stuff. None-the-less, we do sell most of the Nikon stuff that is listed though it generally takes a bit longer …

#3: In general Nikon folks think that their used gear is worth a lot more than it actually is and stubbornly resist listening to my pricing advice 🙂

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