| Re: Don't laugh!
To get back to the original question.
The O.P. really needs to bear in mind what John Ruskin said about looking for something cheap. This is particularly relevant to things with great ranges of cost and quality, like lenses.
"It's unwise to pay too much but it's unwise to pay too little.
When you pay too much you lose a little money, that is all.
When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything,
because the thing you bought was incapable
of doing the thing you bought it to do."
Jim |