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What’s Up?<\/h3>\n

I have been able to stay up every day till between 8 and 9pm with only a short nap and I have been able to get lots of work done during the day without feeling like a zombie. The problem remains that I have been getting up between 2:30 and 3:00am. You gotta love jet lag. <\/p>\n

I am starting to think about packing for the upcoming 2019 Galapagos Photo-Cruise of a Lifetime IPT. So far, my cell phone has not been turned in to the EDI (Edinburg, Scotland Airport) lost and found. <\/p>\n


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BIRDS AS ART<\/h3>\n

BIRDS AS ART is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.<\/p>\n

Selling Your Used Photo Gear Through BIRDS AS ART<\/h3>\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 the 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

As used gear sales have slowed a bit in recent months — especially with dSLR bodies, there are lots of great buys right now both below and on the Used Gear Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New Listing<\/h3>\n

Canon EF 400mm f\/4 IS DO II Lens<\/strong><\/h2>\n

BPN-friend Robert Kimbrell is offering a Canon EF 400mm f\/4 IS DO II lens in near-mint condition for the BAA record-low price of $4199.00. The sale includes the tough front lens cover, the rear cap, the lens strap, the lens trunk, the original product box, and insured ground shipping via major courier to lower 48 US addresses only. Your item will not ship until your check clears unless other arrangements are made.<\/p>\n

Please contact Robert via e-mail<\/a><\/center>.<\/p>\n

I owned and used the 400 DO II when I shot with Canon and found a way to take it on most trips. I took it to Scotland and Nickerson Beach and San Diego. It served me well as my (lighter!) big gun several Galapagos and Southern Ocean (the Falklands and South Georgia) trips. It is a killer for flight with or without the 1.4X III TC. It is. razor-sharp with the 2X on static subjects and skilled folks have had amazing success hand holding it with the 2X III TC for flight and for action. artie<\/em><\/p>\n

Price Reductions!<\/h3>\n

Canon EOS 7D Mark II<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Price Reduced $100.00 on July 13, 2019.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

IPT veteran Mark Overgaard is offering a Canon EOS 7D Mark II (92,170 shutter count) in excellent plus to near-mint condition (but for a few small scratch marks on the rear LCD) for the BAA record-low price of $649.00 (was $749.00). The sale includes the front body cap, a RRS L-plate, one LP-E6N Battery Pack, the battery charger, the camera strap, the original box and user documents, and insured ground shipping via major courier to US lower 48 addresses only. Your item will not ship until your check clears unless other arrangements are made. <\/p>\n

Please contact Mark via e-mail<\/a><\/center>.<\/p>\n

The 7D Mark II is Canon’s top of the line crop factor body. If you doubt the image quality, do a search in the little white box on the top right of each blog post for “Dan Cadieux” or check out his incredible work in the Avian Forum<\/a> on BirdPhotographer’s.Net<\/a>. Or you can check out his opera-singing 7D II Virginia Rail image here<\/a>. Not to mention that I made a slew of great images with this best-value-ever in a digital camera body …<\/em> artie<\/p>\n

Four-lens Canon EF-S Bundle<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Price Reduced $150.00 on July 13, 2019.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

IPT veteran Mark Overgaard is also offering a four-lens EF-S bundle, all in near-mint to like-new condition for the crazy-low price of $799.00 (was $949.00). EF-S lenses work only with Canon crop sensor bodies such as the 7D, the 7D Mark II, the 70D, and the 80D.<\/p>\n

Here are the lenses:<\/p>\n