Worst bit of kit you have?

[rob-s]

There have been a couple of threads on here lately regarding "your favourite lens" but I wondered, what is the worst accessory you have bought? Is there anything you have purchased in the belief that you can't do without it but in fact have never used?

 

I will start off this thread with a tobacco grad filter which produces wonderful skies in the African desert but completely mucks up pictures in our typical British climate. Hence mine stays on the shelf at home.

 

Anybody else?

[neeeeeeeeeek]

I bought ome cheap extension tube thye things that were rubbish so I threw them away.

[DaFoot]

I got a lens that would screw onto front of lens of use to at as a teleconverter.

 

It was cheap. It showed.

 

Still got it somewhere....

[willman]

I bought a Tamro 55-200, absolute pants, it had that much blur i thought i was going through cold turkey. Flogged it on ebay and bought a Sigma to replace it.

[Thunzi]

I bought a Tamro 55-200, absolute pants, it had that much blur i thought i was going through cold turkey.

I loved that lense, you've just got to be creative with spot focusing. However that is now the worst bit of kit I have as it got a bit wet in the okavango delta (when I say a bit, I mean actually filled with water ) . Good job that was towards the end of my Africa trip or I would have been devasted.

[ImpInaBox]

Having been a Pentax fan for many many years I bought an *istD dSLR when they first came out and loved it for about two weeks. Then it absolutely refused to focus and fire when a Radio 1 DJ (who I'd never heard of but was assured was famous) started playing up to the camera at the opening night of a new club. Most embarrassing! I had to pretend to take some shots of him in the end and then run away to a quiet corner and curse the camera. As soon as Canon launched the 5D I jumped ship to Canon and have never looked back since!

 

I also had a Pentax Takumar 2x converter which made even the brilliant Pentax SMC 50mm F1.4 look crap. Ms Imp banned it from weddings after only a couple of outings!

[Cuey]

AH the dreaded X2 teleconverter. It seems such a good idea. Rather than spend a shed load on a nice big lens, just convert it up. I had a cheap one on a 300mm lens for a safari a few years ago now. The results spoke for themselves. You pay alot for a good lens for a reason and i found that out. This was before digital so i got loads of disappointing photos back

 

 

Off to Tanzania and Zanzibar in May so i hope to get some good photos now i'm a little bit more capable (which probably means they will all be pants)

[rob-s]

AH the dreaded X2 teleconverter. It seems such a good idea. Rather than spend a shed load on a nice big lens, just convert it up. I had a cheap one on a 300mm lens for a safari a few years ago now. The results spoke for themselves. You pay alot for a good lens for a reason and i found that out. This was before digital so i got loads of disappointing photos back

 

 

Off to Tanzania and Zanzibar in May so i hope to get some good photos now i'm a little bit more capable (which probably means they will all be pants)

 

But there are some advantages to using a good X2 convertor occasionally. I sometimes use one with a 30mm prime lens to make it a 60mm which can then be stopped down to f45 - good for quite long exposures in daylight

[ImpInaBox]

... which can then be stopped down to f45

 

You ever try a pinhole camera???

[Grissom]

Worst thing isnt a lens or camera but must be the Lens Case 600AW that I got for my big lens. Cant get on with it at all. Just ordered one of these - will take everything including my kitchen sink, and has space for clothes in the daypack that comes with it