Between 2PM and 5PM, the SLR I've been looking at became "In Stock" at Amazon. I was just going to give up and order it from Adorama anyway; same price, free shipping, but I get 3x the kickback from my Amazon Visa if I order through Amazon so I preferred to do that.
In general I've been getting stuff really fast via free shipping at Amazon, but I ordered a Canon 55-250 lens on Friday from Amazon and it's not shipped yet. The camera says it's not expected to ship until the 11th. Ah well, I don't really need it for anything particular anyway. I'd like to have it before Memorial Day, but I'm sure it'll make that.
I also ordered a battery grip and 2 spare batteries from eBay (new, $55 shipped!) - I loves a battery grip, and need spare batteries anyway. I don't know if the batteries will be any good but I figure what the heck, I'll try them out. The battery grip is the same one everyone else is selling and if just that works for $55 I'll be content enough.
I also have about $50 of random stuff piled up on dealextreme - lens caps, lens hoods, lenspens, etc, just accessories. $4 for an IR remote for all Canon cameras. And a green laser; they're $10, WTH. Canon wants $25 for a bitty little plastic lens hood for the kit lens; dealextreme has them for < $10. I wish DX had neutral density filters; I really need about a 4 stop filter for shooting silky waterfall shots; last time I tried to shoot waterfalls to any great extent, the sun was so bright I couldn't get the shutter below about 1/2 second with the lens stopped down and the ISO on 50. That's not bad but I'd like 4 seconds. Heck, I'd even like to try crazy long exposures like 30 seconds. I'll just have to get one somewhere else.
I'm also REALLY hoping to do much better wide-field astrophotography at Berzerker this summer. I got OK results with the old camera a few years back; this one should do much better. And if we get aurora, well, this camera has an ISO 12500 setting!!
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