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Got woken up this morning at around 6am by my other half to drive her into work, imagine how I felt when I took a look out of the window and noticed it was chucking it down with rain.... Lovely!

Driving along the M8 in the peeing rain I suddenly realized exactly what would make this horrid journey that little bit sweeter... Lens shopping!

Dropped the lady off, nipped back home for a shower and headed for town. After posting a thread about getting my first prime lens, I was set on getting the nikkor 50mm f1.4G (£299 in the shops, ouch!)

I took a stroll passed jessops and suddenly felt my body gravitate through the shop door and before I knew what was going on I was leaving jessops as the proud owner of a 50mm f1.8 AND a tamron 70-300mm :thinking:

It's only now that I realize my body went into auto pilot and was in cahoots with my wallet because instead of spending almost £300 on a single lens, I walked away with 2 cracking lenses and 2 uv filters for £270.... result!!! :thumbs:
 
Came to the conclusion that I won't improve as a photographer if I rely on AF all the time, and I must say, mf not half as scary as I thought. Loving the 50mm and to cap of my day, my camera beanbag just got delivered :D
 
Is good to shop!!! :)

Will be interested to hear how you get on with the MF on the 50mm mate. I just could not get used to the manual focus on my D40 when I had it and kept missing good shots of my son and as I said to you before I ended up swapping and getting a 35mm AF-s, the width of the 35mm suited me more also.

Happy shooting!!
 
Not really been out with it yet, just been taking a couple of shots of my watches just now, hopin to get out tomorrow if the weather improves.
 
Same as me mate, weather has been pretty bad although the sun has come out about 20 mintes ago, I can see some blue sky!!

May well get out later
 
Congratulations, sometimes the spur of the moment purchases are the sweetest, hope you enjoy your new lenses. :thumbs:
 
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