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"stay away from nikon lens"


You're too late, someone else already tried that. To be witty, you have to be first.
 
Yeah, that was a funny comment to make about Nikkor optics. Excellent lenses, but these days there are the "kit"varieties. Last year, I took in a D200 in trade, which came with the Tokina 12-24mm zoom. An excellent set up. To cover a wider range, I bought a 18-135mm Nikkor and was surprised (after photographing framed artwork for a local artist) by how much pin-cushioning it had (at almost all focal lengths). Also, lens has a plastic mount. See: http://www.zuiko.com/index_038.htm , John
 
John - its a superzoom lens. I bet you'd see the same from any company and any superzoom they make. I try to avoid the things like the plague.
 
You're too late, someone else already tried that. To be witty, you have to be first.

Theirs was a much less comprehensive single offer. I am forming an entire commercial enterprise dedicated to this mission, and also accepting Zeiss and Leica optics that are similarly problematic. Plus, I offered to pay postage, thus making a higher competitive bid.
 
That comment is plain odd, I have made several prints from negs created in Nikon cameras with Nikkor lenses, heck my enlarger lens is a Nikkor 50 f2.8 and all are brilliant. Someone is fooling you Darko.
 
(Only read the first and sixth pages... no new jokes to add, I'm affraid)

In my mind, and based more on reputation than experience, the Leica's are outstandingly the best, the Minoltas, then it becomes a splitting-hairs tussle for next, being between certain Pentaxs, Nikons, Sigmas, and Tamrons, but following the pack is Canon. But Canon does have excellent marketing!

I've seen a comparison somewhere, between a Hassleblad and a new Sony A900, and it really, really was quite close. I think it was something like an 85mm on the 'blad, and probably a Carl Zeiss on the A900. For what it's worth, the bokeh on the Minolta G's make them worth the money over the CZs, from what I have seen and been able to compare.

In anycase, if I were to change teams, it'd probably be to the Nikon team.