I have bought 2 lenses and a camera from eBay sellers in Ukraine. No problems. Shipping took about 10 days. The risk is not really any different than buying from somebody you don't in the USA. You're depending on eBay to refund your money in both cases.
I had a similar problem with a Panasonic Lumix LF1 camera with a fixed lens. The advice I got here was to use a vacuum cleaner to suck air out of the camera in hopes that it would dislodge the dust particles. It worked! I had to repeat a year later and it worked again. I'm still using the camera. Check my original post:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-436814-1.html
I used Kolari to convert an old Canon PowerShot point-and-shoot camera to IR. No problems. I had the camera back in about a week.
When you sign-up for the photographers plan, you are subscribing to Adobe for 1 year. You are agreeing to pay $120 for that 1 year, either lump sum or $10 / month. There is no month-to-month option. If you want to cancel before 1 year, you will be charged an early termination fee.
Be careful. You can buy a used, low shutter count D90 for about $150 on eBay. Repair cost could easily exceed that.
"I'm Back" uses a 1/2.3" sensor. That's gives you a 5.6 crop factor. You'll have a very different experience using "I'm Back" than you originally had with 35 mm film.
I've bought several items on ebay from Japan. Most expensive was $400. No problems. Never any duty. Condition has always been like new.
Ebay and PayPal will gladly refund your money, and then charge the seller. You are not going to get "your" lens (if it ever existed).
bpulv wrote:
Cut your losses before it loses any more value.
You're never going to be happy with this camera. Right now, you're out a $1000 and have nothing to show for it. Whatever you can sell it for is more than you have now.
Same thing happened to me. The "Export to PhotoLab" worked in LR 7.3. Today, I upgraded to LR 7.5 and I get the same error message. Lightroom won't export to PL or the older DxO OpticsPro either.
Davethehiker wrote:
I just installed my CC update today, only to discover that it no longer exports to DxO OpticsPro. I wish they would work together get that straight prior to new releases. The last time Adobe made a change like this to LR it took PhotoLab over a week to make the needed changes to DxO to accommodate the LR changes.
Streets wrote:
....He told me that erasing data from the card while it's in the camera will choke up a device on the main camera circuit board and the fore-mentioned message will occur and tell you that you will need to get new guts for your camera. The gentleman also said that most cameras will eventually have this problem if you erase the card in camera....
I doubt this is true. You should probably stay away from that camera store.
The camera may be toast, but there are things you can do.
- Try a different SD card.
- Reset the camera, or remove the battery for a few minutes, and then try a different card.
- Remove lens and clean all the contacts, maybe something weird electrically is happening.
Good luck.