I've been looking for Sigma APOs for some time and
found a nice one on eBay, a 70-300 APO Macro AF. I
placed a bid of £55 with AuctionSniper and about
an hour before the auction's end got an email
telling me my bid was too low. I clicked the link
provided for the purpose and raised the bid to
£65. To say I was pissed off when the lens went
for £58 (a bid that had remained *unchanged* for
about an hour) would be putting it very politely.
I complained and the replies I've been getting
from the AuctionSniper support people are less
than satisfactory. Like Finland's worst ISP
Sonera, they seem unable to admit there might be
something wrong their end.
The awful chromatic aberration of an very
expensive Schneider 360mm telephoto I had for many
years made me very much aware of the problem. But
a few years ago I got a Sigma 5.6/400 APO and the
images are very clean. That was my reasoning.
Bugger!
Don
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Dr E D F Williams
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