Much of the Geeks gear is provided as an outlet for the manufacturer's
refurbishing shops. I've never tried anything but IBM but some of the
IBM/Lenovoe PCs you might find at the Geeks may also be found on IBM's
site <http://www.ibm.com/products/specialoffers/us/en/icue.html> I
assume the international manufacturers have international refurbishing
outlets.
Chuck Norcutt
andrew elliott wrote:
> 2009/11/7 andrew elliott <andrewelliottgalbally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> As an obsessive collector, I've already got the lens. This gives me a good
>> excuse to play with it!
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> That Geeks site looks interesting. I wonder does anyone know of an
> equivalent site in UK or Ireland. (I live in Northern Ireland so either
> would do)
>
>>
>> 2009/11/7 Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> For much less than the price of an 80mm macro one could get a modest
>>>
>>> Win98/2000/XP machine that would be dedicated to running that (probably
>>> SCSI) scanner. Just one of thousands of options
>>> <http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=DC5000MT-2R&cat=SYS>
>>>
>>> Not that I'd want to see you forego a nice macro lens though. :-)
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>>
>>> andrew elliott wrote:
>>> > I normally use a 4Ti as my everyday camera. Unfortunately work
>>> commitments
>>>> has limited me to taking pictures of my kids, wife and cat recently. I
>>> would
>>>> hope to have time to use the OM gear more but I have no good way of
>>>> translating 35mm into digital. My old konica minolta dimage scanner will
>>> not
>>>> work with vista and I could never seem to get good results from it
>>> anyway.
>>>> There was a recent thread on using the zuiko 80mm macro to copy slides
>>> with
>>>> a 5D so that might be worth a go. If it works I shall publish a few
>>> taken
>>>> with a proper OM body. (And yes, I am an obsessive collector)!!
>>>>
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
>>>> 2009/11/7 Dawid Loubser <dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>>> Thank you very much Andrew, I enjoyed seeing some sample images.
>>>>> Amazing subject isolation possible with this lens...
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, your 250mm + OM-3Ti is a beaufiul combination... *drool*
>>>>>
>>>>> Now where are the same images of the 250mm on the OM body?
>>>>> Or are you just a collector? :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> On 07 Nov 2009, at 2:49 PM, andrew elliott wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Someone was wanting a few samples taken with the 250/f2. I have
>>>>>> taken a few
>>>>>> with my 250 on a c*n*n 5d mk1 and these are now on flickr. This is
>>>>>> my first
>>>>>> attempt at using flickr, (as well as first time with 250mm on the
>>>>>> c*n*n), so
>>>>>> please forgive the fuzzy focus. Also please advise on how I should
>>>>>> supply a
>>>>>> link to the photos. My user name on flickr is andrewelliottgalbally
>>>>>> and I
>>>>>> have tagged photos as "Zuiko 250mm f2.0" so maybe that would help!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Andrew
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