NEX & M4:3 users: great deal on 2 Sigma primes!

Roger just reminded me on one key feature to alleviate some of this... ; Clear image zoom. ;
Get the new 18-200 on standby, baby!

 

LOL. I think you and I are the only ones with that feature so far!

 

Yep - I don't have that one!

 

Doesn't Harry have a 6 also?

 

I think Harry went back to Nikon with a D600.

 

Traitor!

 

I cant wait to get to a store and look at these new sony's!
One day I may post a "for sale" on a used d300, 18-200, and 80-400

 

Red, Sony no longer makes it hence the price issue. I got mine from KEH for about 80. EBay is around 100 or so.

 

Yeah - I take some of the blame on that one - I'm both a little sorry for it, and also a little proud of it in a way. ; ; I actually already had the converter sitting gathering dust in its box in my closet - I used to use it with my H5 superzoom years ago. ; I pulled it out and decided to try it with the NEX on the off-chance it might work, and it worked so well I started posting the results on some photo forums. ; It's an out-of-production extender, but they were still lying around at some used stores and places, usually for $80-100 or so. ; But a lot of NEX users from one of the big photo forums started actively hunting for them after I started posting my threads, and many of them were quickly snapped up. ; Any that were still out there ended up going up in price due to the sudden demand and keyword activity on the net, and a few of those less scrupulous folks picked up several and turned around to sell them on eBay for a lot more.


Like anything out of production, the price is what the used market will bear - and as stock dwindled and popularity rose, the price went up. ; I think it would be fair personally in the $100 range, and up to around $150 or so - which is fairly close to their price when new. ; I don't personally think I'd spend more than $150 for one, so those higher prices I wouldn't mess with. ; If you can find an eBay one around $100, that's pretty solid - just make absolutely positive for sure you're getting the DH1758, not a 'DH1758-equivalent'...which is likely going to be one of the cheap 'Crystal Optics/Sakar/etc' Chinese knockoff extenders...some of the eBayers who know folks are looking for 'DH1758' have started putting that in their descriptions or titles when they're selling cheap knockoffs.

 

they have an F rating with the BBB.

 

There's a NEX shooter over on dp review who just got his HG1758 - he said optically it is about the same as the DH1758 (he has both) - but is larger and heavier. ; He noted he feels the need to support the HG1758 when attached to the lens, whereas with the DH1758 he's confident letting it hang on its own (I use mine free of support too). ; So the good news seems to be that optically it seems in one person's opinion to be similar to the DH.