If you would like to join me in Lakeland for a morning of great photography next week — I am free this Friday, March 15 — please get in touch via e-mail<\/a><\/center> or call my cell at 863-221-2372. Limit three. photographers\/session. <\/p>\n Morning Session — 7-10am: $250.00 Join me at Gatorland this Saturday to learn a ton. If you are interested please get in touch via e-mail<\/a><\/center> or call my cell at 863-221-2372. Limit three. <\/p>\n Morning Session — 7-10am: $200.00 Despite lots of recent interest I still need three folks for the Galapagos trip. Please shoot me an e-mail<\/a><\/center> to learn about the huge late registration discount on the Galapagos trip.<\/p>\n BIRDS AS ART is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. <\/p>\n Selling your used (or like-new) photo gear through the BAA Blog is a great idea. We charge only a 5% commission. One of the more popular used gear for sale sites charged a minimum of 20%. Plus assorted fees! Yikes. They went out of business. And e-Bay fees are now up to 13%. The minimum item price here is $500 (or less for a $25 fee). If you are interested please scroll down here<\/a> or shoot us an e-mail<\/a><\/center> with the words Items for Sale Info Request cut and pasted into the Subject line :). Stuff that is priced fairly — I offer pricing advice to those who agree to the terms — usually sells in no time flat. Over the past year, we have sold many dozens of items. Do know that prices on some items like the EOS-1D Mark IV, the old Canon 100-400, the old 500mm, the EOS-7D and 7D Mark II and the original 400mm DO lens have been dropping steadily. Most recently the price of used Canon 600mm f\/L IS II lenses have been dropping like a rock with the introduction of the 600 III. You can always see the current listings by clicking here<\/a> or on the Used Photo Gear tab on the orange-yellow menu bar near the top of each blog post page.<\/p>\n All sales include insured ground shipping via major courier to lower 48 US addresses only.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Multiple IPT veteran John Johnson sold a Canon EF 800mm f\/5.6L IS USM Lens in excellent plus to near-mint condition for the BAA record low price of $7499.00 in early March. Todd Koudelka is offering a Canon EF 500 mm f\/4L IS II USM lens in excellent to near-mint condition for the BIRDS AS ART record-low price of $6499.00. Photos are available upon request. The sale includes the lens trunk with two keys, the front lens cover, the rear lens cap, the lens strap and the trunk strap, the original canon box, and insured Fed-Ex Ground shipment to the lower 48 US states only.<\/p>\n It is best to contact Todd via e-mail<\/a><\/center> or by cell phone from 7-9pm Central time: 1- 608-577-5375.<\/p>\n The 500 f\/4 super telephoto lenses have long been the world\u2019s most popular for birds,nature, wildlife, and sports for many decades. Canon\u2019s Series II version is light, fast, super-sharp, and produces amazing images with both the 1.4X and 2X III TCs. The 500 II is relatively small, easily hand holdable for some folks, and is much easier travel with, focuses closer than, and costs a lot less than the 600 II. Lastly, and you might find this amazing, the magnification for the 500 II is the same as it is for the 600 II: .15X. How is that possible? Magnification is calculated at the minimum focusing distance of the lens \u2014 12.14 feet (3.7 meters) for the 500 II and 14.77 feet (4.5 meters) for the 600 II. Simply put, the 500 II focuses more than two feet closer than the 600 II. The seller for the last one that sold here had five calls the first day; the first four folks quibbled on price. The fifth one jumped right on it … Please do not tarry if you are seriously interested in Todd’s lens as it too should sell almost instantly. Or not. As the 500 II goes for $8999 new you will be getting a pretty much new lens while saving $2500.00! I loved my 500 II.<\/em> artie<\/p>\n If you need a hot photo item that is out of stock at B&H, would enjoy free overnight shipping, and would like a $50 discount on your first purchase, click here<\/a> to order and enter the coupon code BIRDSASART at checkout. If you are looking to strike a deal on Canon or Nikon gear (including the big telephotos) or on a multiple item order, contact Steve Elkins via e-mail<\/a> or on his cell at (479) 381-2592 (Eastern time) and be sure to mention your BIRDSASART coupon code and use it for your online order. Steve currently has several D850s in stock along with a Nikon 600mm f\/4 VR. He is taking pre-orders for the new Nikon 500 P and the Nikon Z6 mirrorless camera body.<\/p>\n
\nMorning Session with a working lunch including image review and Photoshop: $350.00<\/p>\nSaturday Cheap Gatorland Sessions<\/h3>\n
\nMorning Session with a working lunch including image review and Photoshop: $300.00
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Selling Your Used Photo Gear Through BIRDS AS ART<\/h3>\n
Important Used Gear Note<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Recent Used Gear Sales Rocking!<\/h3>\n
\nJohn Bowden sold a Sony Vario-Tessar T* FE 16-35mm f\/4 ZA OSS lens in near-mint condition for $798 (was) $848.00 in early March.
\nKarl Schneck sold a Canon EF 100-400mm L IS II USM zoom lens (the new 1-4) in excellent condition for $1,299.00 in early March.
\nMultiple IPT veteran, dear friend, and BAA technical advisor Patrick Sparkman sold his Sigma 14-24mm f\/2.8 DG HSM Art Lens for Nikon F in like-new condition for $699.00 (was 799.00) in early March.
\nJohn M Wright sold his Canon 24-70mm f\/4L IS lens in near-mint condition for the BAA record-low price of $488.00 in early March.
\nErrol Bellon sold his Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f\/2.8 G VRII N-ED Lens lens in new condition for a very fair $1125.00 (was $1296.95).
\nJohn Bowden sold his Sony a7R III mirrorless camera in mint condition (only 136 actuations!) for $2298.00 one day after it was listed.
\nDick Bernard sold his Canon EF 100-400mm F4.5-5.6L IS II USM zoom lens (the new 1-4) in excellent condition (with an original 1.4X TC) for a BAA record-low-by-far $1,198.00 about 30 seconds after it was listed.
\nJohn Bowden sold his Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS lens in like-new condition for $998.00 the first day it was listed.
\nI sold my barely used (shutter count 16,263) Nikon D5 in excellent to near-mint condition for the BAA record-low price of $4,496.95 (was $5,496.95) and my Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 80-400mm f\/4.5-5.6G ED VR lens in excellent plus condition for only $1,499.00 (was $1799.00), both in late February 2019.
\nJohn M Wright also sold his Canon EF 70-200mm f\/4L IS lens in near mint condition for the BAA record-low price of $488.00and his Canon EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR body in near-mint condition with 28,567 shutter actuations for $1999.00 in mid-February.
\nI sold my Nikon 200-500mm f\/5.6 lens in pretty close to near-mint condition along with the the RRS Collar Foot Package for a silly low $1099.00.
\nMultiple IPT veteran and good friend Paul Reinstein sold his Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM in excellent plus condition for the BAA record-low price of $6,599.00 in mid-February.
\nMultiple IPT veteran, dear friend, and BAA technical advisor Patrick Sparkman sold his Nikon D850 DSLR for $2699.00 just days after listing it in early February.
\nI sold my Nikon AF-S Teleconverter TC-17E II in near-mint condition for a BAA record low price of $299.00 in mid-February.
\nMultiple IPT veteran, dear friend, and BAA technical advisor Patrick Sparkman sold his Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f\/4E FL ED VR lens in like-new condition for $10,996.95 his Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-120mm f\/4G ED VR lens in like-new condition for $475.00, his Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 200-500mm f\/5.6E ED VR Lens in like-new condition for $910.00, and his Nikon AF-S Teleconverter TC-14E III in excellent condition for $385.00 all within a day of listing them in early February. <\/p>\nCanon EF 500 mm f\/4L IS II USM Lens<\/h3>\n
Money Saving Reminder<\/h3>\n