Huss
Veteran
I happened to obtain an Olympus OMD EM10-mkii at an offer to good to refuse. But the lens that came with it - an SLR Magic 50 t0.95 - is comically big given the size of the camera. I wanted something small, proportional to the Olympus otherwise what was the point of M4/3?
But as I'm cheap, I didn't want to spend much. I've already had great experience with 7Artisan lenses - their 50 1.1 is genuinely fantastic - so I looked at them. They have a 25mm 1.8 m4/3 lens for $70. This lens is rebadged by quite a few brands so I don't even know if 7Artisans is the actual mfg. Butt still, I like the cut of their jib so looked where to order one.
ebay - $75+, shipping from China. There are some 'local' vendors but looking at the delivery timeframe, it's obvious they are drop shipping them from China too.
I checked Amazon... It was Sunday morning when I did this. They have it in stock with same freakin day delivery! On a Sunday! Dood, no wonder this is destroying the regular retail industry. I was working all day so it was a pleasant respite to hear that knock on my door in the early evening, and there was my new lens.
The lens is really nice. Again shocking given the price. Pixel peeping at 1.8 shows it's worth every penny, no matter who actually made it. Very nice build, smoooth focusing and smooth clickless aperture ring. Enough weighting so it won't accidentally move. Perfect size for the Olympus and it looks great on it.
Came in a nice box, better foam packaging/protection than Nikon provides for their $3300 D850...
Gonna sell on the SLR Magic lens, this is how M4/3 gear should handle!
Back to my point. I wanted it now, Amazon enabled that ridiculous compulsive behaviour. For better or for worse.
But as I'm cheap, I didn't want to spend much. I've already had great experience with 7Artisan lenses - their 50 1.1 is genuinely fantastic - so I looked at them. They have a 25mm 1.8 m4/3 lens for $70. This lens is rebadged by quite a few brands so I don't even know if 7Artisans is the actual mfg. Butt still, I like the cut of their jib so looked where to order one.
ebay - $75+, shipping from China. There are some 'local' vendors but looking at the delivery timeframe, it's obvious they are drop shipping them from China too.
I checked Amazon... It was Sunday morning when I did this. They have it in stock with same freakin day delivery! On a Sunday! Dood, no wonder this is destroying the regular retail industry. I was working all day so it was a pleasant respite to hear that knock on my door in the early evening, and there was my new lens.
The lens is really nice. Again shocking given the price. Pixel peeping at 1.8 shows it's worth every penny, no matter who actually made it. Very nice build, smoooth focusing and smooth clickless aperture ring. Enough weighting so it won't accidentally move. Perfect size for the Olympus and it looks great on it.
Came in a nice box, better foam packaging/protection than Nikon provides for their $3300 D850...
Gonna sell on the SLR Magic lens, this is how M4/3 gear should handle!
Back to my point. I wanted it now, Amazon enabled that ridiculous compulsive behaviour. For better or for worse.
Coopersounds
Well-known
nice when a plan come together.
Intraday delivery... they must have a warehouse near your home.
willie_901
Veteran
Same day Prime delivery is very spooky.
But it will be very weird when, in the not too distant future, you send Amazon an smartphone image of where you want the drone to drop off a same day delivery on your property.
But it will be very weird when, in the not too distant future, you send Amazon an smartphone image of where you want the drone to drop off a same day delivery on your property.
We had that before. They called them 'camera stores.'
Huss
Veteran
Not only did they not have them in stock, they don't carry that product and they don't deliver (I was working and could not get away).
So, no.
ptpdprinter
Veteran
But you had to get out of your pajamas.
Dogman
Veteran
peterm1
Veteran
"Back to my point. I wanted it now, Amazon enabled that ridiculous compulsive behaviour. For better or for worse."
Its the story of our culture and it has become far, far, far worse in the last decade. Not just Amazon and eBay etc influencing buying behavior but in other, far more invidious ways too. We constantly see moral panics washing over society catalyzed by Facebook, Twitter et al.
Someone says or does something that may or may not be problematic (or is alleged to have done so) and there is a twitterstorm with millions of people virtue signalling by denouncing them and dumping on them. That many of these people are brainless and would not know how to pour pee out of a boot without the instructions being written on the boot sole, does not figure in the equation. They are seeking the instant gratification of a moral outrage "fix" by virtue signalling to their "friends" (i.e. In reality, Facebook friends who are actually strangers, not friends at all.)
And of course that this is also being stirred up and utilized by demagogues who use it to promote their own ideological position does not help. It all feels to me what I have read about Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution in 1966-1976 when, stirred up and authorized by the elites, people were hounded, denounced, brought before kangaroo courts and punished - all done supported by the ignorance of teenagers who wanted to be part of it simply because the victims were member of a class or said something that opened them to attack providing the ideologically addled with a target. Except now we are much more efficient and do it on a global scale using technology. We don't have "people's courts", we have twitterstorms.
We live in weird and disturbing times. Little wonder some of us prefer to view the world through a viewfinder. It gives us the ability to pretend that we are not part of the insanity.
Its the story of our culture and it has become far, far, far worse in the last decade. Not just Amazon and eBay etc influencing buying behavior but in other, far more invidious ways too. We constantly see moral panics washing over society catalyzed by Facebook, Twitter et al.
Someone says or does something that may or may not be problematic (or is alleged to have done so) and there is a twitterstorm with millions of people virtue signalling by denouncing them and dumping on them. That many of these people are brainless and would not know how to pour pee out of a boot without the instructions being written on the boot sole, does not figure in the equation. They are seeking the instant gratification of a moral outrage "fix" by virtue signalling to their "friends" (i.e. In reality, Facebook friends who are actually strangers, not friends at all.)
And of course that this is also being stirred up and utilized by demagogues who use it to promote their own ideological position does not help. It all feels to me what I have read about Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution in 1966-1976 when, stirred up and authorized by the elites, people were hounded, denounced, brought before kangaroo courts and punished - all done supported by the ignorance of teenagers who wanted to be part of it simply because the victims were member of a class or said something that opened them to attack providing the ideologically addled with a target. Except now we are much more efficient and do it on a global scale using technology. We don't have "people's courts", we have twitterstorms.
We live in weird and disturbing times. Little wonder some of us prefer to view the world through a viewfinder. It gives us the ability to pretend that we are not part of the insanity.
Axel
singleshooter
Shure we do.
Nice to order what you want and get it instant.
And then?
Where to invest the "saved" time? Next order?
Questions..
Interesting thread.
Pioneer
Veteran
Next step will be to own a printer that will start printing the item the minute you order it.
Huss
Veteran
Consumers having their orders filled quickly and easily is hardly 'weird or disturbing.' I find it one of the major benefits of a free market society.
Can't think of anyone who would prefer the rationing, shortages, and wait lines of the Soviet Union...or worse yet, the nightmare that is current Venezuela...
The flip side of the same day delivery is the easy returns. Can't mention one without the other...that is a complete offset in case anyone is succumbing to their own 'ridiculous compulsive behavior. '
Can't think of anyone who would prefer the rationing, shortages, and wait lines of the Soviet Union...or worse yet, the nightmare that is current Venezuela...
The flip side of the same day delivery is the easy returns. Can't mention one without the other...that is a complete offset in case anyone is succumbing to their own 'ridiculous compulsive behavior. '
Steve M.
Veteran
That is amazingly fast delivery. People in Hawaii can only imagine something like this :[
To tell the truth, I always liked waiting on something that was ordered. Not too long of course, but a little extra time often gave me time to buy film, chemicals, what not.
To tell the truth, I always liked waiting on something that was ordered. Not too long of course, but a little extra time often gave me time to buy film, chemicals, what not.
Huss
Veteran
I thought I did too until I heard that knock on my door 5 minutes after I pressed the 'submit' button.
Huss
Veteran
Arbitrarium
Well-known
Never going to happen. Obviously it's possible, but it relies on kids not throwing rocks/toilet paper/sausages at the drones or people stealing them to sell them. Which will definitely happen. I saw a video about some sort of six wheeled drone bucket thing that would deliver your parcels to your office etc. The package compartment was locked as though that would stop people from tipping the drone over or pushing it in a ditch or stealing it's tyres. These drone delivery things would only work in a utopia.
retinax
Well-known
Also, liability issues when drones fall on people's heads and property, navigation issues in areas shaded from GPS satellites between buildings, and who wants packages dropped somewhere outside anyway? Only few people have a safe patio or terrace.
You live in a very binary world.
The flip side of complaining about the benefits of capitalism is extolling the virtues of Marxism