It took us two hours to unpack stuff and sort it out, mostly because we kept getting distracted and actually looking at things.
Between the bundles that came with the camera (so two each of all kinds of stuff), the bundle that came with the lens, and the other things I got, we have a lot of new camera toys!
I spent the morning dragging out all our old camera stuff. Here is the inventory:
N70 35mm body
MC-12B Remote Cord
Magic Lantern Guide
Batteries - CR123a lithium
D70 body
wireless remote
batteries for D70:
2 Nikon EN-EL3
Adapter to carry CR2 batteries
Nikon Quick Charger MH -18
3 1GB CF cards
Lenses & Filters
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 18-70mm f: 3.5-4.5G ED - DX SWWM Aspherical w/ lens hood
Nikon AF Nikkor 28-80mm f:3.5-5.6 D w/Tiffen cir. Polarizer 58mm & Tiffen UV Protector 58mm
Quantaray AF 19-35mm f: 3.5-4.5
Nikon AF 70-300mm f: 4.5-5.6G w/Tiffen cir. Polariser 62mm w/lens hood
Tiffen 58mm to 62mm Step-up ring
Tiffen Wide Angle Cir. Polarizer 67mm (not sure where this came from - we don't even have a lens it fits!)
Bags & Straps
Tamarac Bag
Blue Lowepro
Black Lowepro
Slide & Flex Bino-System Strap - Merritt Island
Slide & Flex Bino-System Strap - Corkscrew Swamp
Tripods
Aragon small tripod (very portable but not usable with a big zoom lens)
SunPak Platinum Plus 6400 UT
Velbon VGB-3
Now I need to make choices. First off, the only really good lens out of our old ones is the 18-70 ED - DX but since it is a DX it is not really suitable for the new FX format camera bodies. Yeah, all those lenses would work on the new camera, but they are all really old - I think the newest one was purchased in 2005! And of course none of them have VR which is nice as we get older. So I may buy a second lens, maybe a more moderate range zoom to replace the 28-80 one. Or since the 28-300 is still on sale I could get another one of them. My husband wants a prime telephoto lens but they cost more than our last car did so that's not going to happen.
I'm thinking about making a couple of bundles - one for the N70 and another for the D70 and selling most of the old stuff on eBay. We'll keep the Lowepro bags - we got new ones with the camera bundles but they are not as good or as weatherproof. I may keep the Tamarac bag since it is just right for a camera with a zoom lens with an extra battery and a memory card. I'd like to upgrade the tripods, but we really seldom use one so I'm not sure it's worth it.
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