New Camera Lens

It started with just window shopping, and walked into courts, find the lens and see see. So the price of 18-200mm is $1199... Been thinking it for 2 years but sill never buy. As we looked at the boxes in the display cupboard, we lower down our head because of the price and saw another box, but the price was $599, our eyes open again.... we read carefully, is a 55-210mm..... We did some research over our iphone then went back home did some more research, 18-200, there's no need to change the lenses but you got to carry a big len around, and the price is double. For the 55-210mm, it cover the futher range of the current len but need to switch around and the pice is only half of 18-200mm.

After much of waiting and researching, for the price and the feature. In Singapore, someone is selling the second hand of it at about $380/400 SGD. Was contemplating and we surf around on the website. Bookmark to my ipad, in case I need it next time. We decided to get the SEL55210 so to cover the range of 55-210mm from the current 18-55mm...

One not so fine night on 2 Jan 2013, came home feeling lousy and piss from work, told ZP to pass me the computer and i said I want to buy the lens to cheer myself up. Type the keywords and voila, saw from ebay, the cheapest, $286 USD ( About SGD $350 with FREE expedite shipping.)

Waiting for the payment to be clear, and the item was marked as ship quite soon after. Saw the site again, it say about 4-5 days, OMG, i know i wont be home the next few days to receive, hopefully someone from home will receive it. 7th Jan , haiz, true enough, I saw a piece of paper with my name, and I need to collect from the Post office again... Another one day wait.... I finally got to see my baby on 8/1/2013, 2pm after going back to the post office after missing the parcel at home.

Nicely wrapped in a brown box, with many bubble wrap, and a bag of air to prevent it from shifting too much.... Open the un-commericalize packaging , and tried it to zoom the camera close enough, from one end of carpark to another end of the carpark which is Brandon's house, hahahah !( Was there cause i was craving from nasi lemak)

But then again, it started raining heavily, and i couldn't really test the lens. We had to wait until the weekend for Zp to try the lenses on the climbing events.

Due to the location of the place and the wall, we are not really able to access to the front, so taking of pic is mostly from far, like 20m away. So ZP was happy when he was able to zoom in all the way and still take picture, unlike the current one, the zoom has quite limited range