After months of dilly-dallying, wringing my hands, and other ways of should-I-should-I-not, I have finally ordered a D750.
I had a D90 before (which I lost two years ago), and have wanted to get a full frame. I would have been happy with the D610, but was greedy for the D750 (purely a 'shiny new gadget syndrome'), so I kept pushing it back till I could afford it.
Still, this frankly being a 'want to get' and not a 'need to get', I really did not want to spend the sticker price of $2K, and was looking at CL, ebay and Amazon marketplace to try and save at least 25% of that. Then I also realized that it's very difficult to ascertain if the product is a USA version or not (which, I was told, might lead to problems with repair), dampening my enthusiasm.
And suddenly yesterday I saw a used one at B&H at that price point, and checked with them that it was USA model and came with all the original packaging and content. So I grabbed at it, and it'll arrive tomorrow!!!
I do have a couple of lenses for it from before: the Tamron 70-300mm , the old Nikon 50mm 1.8. and the Nikkor 17-35mm F2.8 (picked up from CL in anticipation recently). Should hold me for a while.
All my earlier cameras were also bought used, but when I got them they were already replaced in the market by Nikon with much newer versions. This time, it should be a shinier toy :\!
I had a D90 before (which I lost two years ago), and have wanted to get a full frame. I would have been happy with the D610, but was greedy for the D750 (purely a 'shiny new gadget syndrome'), so I kept pushing it back till I could afford it.
Still, this frankly being a 'want to get' and not a 'need to get', I really did not want to spend the sticker price of $2K, and was looking at CL, ebay and Amazon marketplace to try and save at least 25% of that. Then I also realized that it's very difficult to ascertain if the product is a USA version or not (which, I was told, might lead to problems with repair), dampening my enthusiasm.
And suddenly yesterday I saw a used one at B&H at that price point, and checked with them that it was USA model and came with all the original packaging and content. So I grabbed at it, and it'll arrive tomorrow!!!
I do have a couple of lenses for it from before: the Tamron 70-300mm , the old Nikon 50mm 1.8. and the Nikkor 17-35mm F2.8 (picked up from CL in anticipation recently). Should hold me for a while.
All my earlier cameras were also bought used, but when I got them they were already replaced in the market by Nikon with much newer versions. This time, it should be a shinier toy :\!