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 on the Used Gear Page<\/a> <\/p>\n BAA Record-low Price<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n Blog regular Bill Hill is offering a Canon EOS-1D X Mark II professional digital camera body in excellent condition for the incredibly low, BAA record-low price of $3299.00. There is some minor wear around the shutter button, otherwise mint. Approx. 16000 cycles. The sale includes the front cap, the original LP-E19 battery, the charger, the strap, a 64GB Sandisk Cfast Extreme card, the cFast reader, the owner’s manual, the original 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 Bill via e-mail<\/a> or by phone at 1-(831) 601-4066 Pacific time zone. <\/p>\n The EOS-1DX is Canon\u2019s flagship professional camera body. I made many fine images with mine. It is rugged and fast and features Canon\u2019s best AF system.<\/em> artie<\/p>\n BIRDS AS ART is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.<\/p>\n All FlexShooter Pro BigFeet are now in stock in the BAA Online Store. You can click on the chart above or here<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n Several months ago I had a FlexShooter Mini to test on both the UK Puffins and Gannets IPT and the Galapagos Photo-Cruise of a Lifetime. It is a smaller, lighter (one pound!) version of the amazing FlexShooter Pro<\/a>. I used it often with both the Nikon 500 PF and the SONY 100-400 GM with great success and in a pinch, I was able to make sharper images with the Nikon 600 and the TC-E14. All with the Mini mounted on the lighter Induro<\/a> GIT 204. I suggested to developer\/manufacturer Csaba Karai that the Mini needed a bit more spring tension. A new batch with my suggested changes should be in stock in about two weeks. <\/p>\n The FlexShooter Mini with the lighter Induro<\/a> GIT 204 is dead-solid-perfect for those whose intermediate telephoto or telephoto zoom is their workhorse lens for bird and nature photography. It will sell for $579 plus shipping. Folks who wish to be assured of getting one from our first shipment can order theirs by phone by calling Jim at 863-692-0906 asap. Your card will not be charged until your Mini is shipped. We already have five orders to ship from our first shipment. <\/p>\n We currently have only four FlexShooter Pro heads in stock here<\/a>. We have all but one of the BigFeet in stock (phone orders only for now: 863-692-0906) but are sold out of the new FLN-60 BigFoot that was recently re-designed for the Nikon 600 VR. Click here<\/a> to access the pretty much complete FlexShooter Pro story with videos.<\/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 getting folks the hot new SONY stuff: the 200-600, the 600 f\/4 GM, and the 7R iv. And the wait-list is short for the Nikon 500 P. <\/p>\n Too many folks attending BAA IPTs and dozens of photographers whom I see in the field and on BPN<\/a>, are–out of ignorance–using the wrong gear especially when it comes to tripods and more especially, tripod heads… Please know that I am always glad to answer your gear questions via e-mail<\/a>. Those questions might deal with systems, camera bodies, accessories, and\/or lens choices and decisions. <\/p>\n This image was created on August 5 on the Galapagos Photo-Cruise of a Lifetime IPT. I used the hand held Sony FE 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens<\/a> with the Sony FE 1.4x teleconverter<\/a> (at 560mm) and the high mega-pixel Sony Alpha a7R III Mirrorless Digital camera body.<\/a> ISO 800. Exposure determined by Zebras with ISO on the rear dial: 1\/640 sec. at f\/8 in Manual mode. AWB at 3:24pm on a cloudy afternoon. <\/p>\n Flexible Spot (S: small) C (Continuos\/tracking) AF was active at the moment of exposure. The selected AF point was placed on the subject’s eye. <\/p>\n Click on the image to enjoy a larger version. <\/p>\nCanon EOS-1D X Mark II professional digital camera body<\/strong> <\/h2>\n
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