e_dawg
03-17-2008, 06:38 AM
Check out Thom's analysis here:
http://www.bythom.com/nikonlens.htm
I have pasted one part below that I particularly agree with:
Indeed, after spending hours looking at the zoom lineup from every angle I could, my analysis boiled down to this: Nikon has it mostly right. But there's an important gap, and that's the one between the amateur and pro sets: what I'd call the scaled down pro zooms. Nikon simply doesn't have constant aperture, smaller-sized zooms available for when the pro wants to "go light" or the amateur wants to "go upscale."
http://www.bythom.com/nikonlens.htm
I have pasted one part below that I particularly agree with:
Indeed, after spending hours looking at the zoom lineup from every angle I could, my analysis boiled down to this: Nikon has it mostly right. But there's an important gap, and that's the one between the amateur and pro sets: what I'd call the scaled down pro zooms. Nikon simply doesn't have constant aperture, smaller-sized zooms available for when the pro wants to "go light" or the amateur wants to "go upscale."