Woody, I think you forgot the price. It looks like Nikon has lost your business.
Sorry Brad. The price is $650.
Nikon has definitely not lost my business. I find the bodies so reliable that I don't need both a D3 and a D700 and following the surgery on my thumb the lighter weight body works much better for me.
I do however find that i want and need to go back to primes rather than the really large and bulky zooms. I will probably end up with a full stable of Zeiss ZF lenses for the Nikon system. I put the 18mm Zeiss up for sale but if the 14-24 goes first i will withdraw the 18. I have the Zeiss 35 which is a wonderful lens and I am looking to get the 50 2.0 macro and either the 100 2.0 or the 85 1.4. That pretty much covers the same ground as the 14-24 and the 24-70 and gives me smaller lighter primes to deal with. I love my Nikon gear and have shot great images with the two zooms that I now have for sale. I could keep both of them and be entirely happy with the IQ. I just need to get the weight down so I can actually handle the system properly.
Just for consistency I also have tried to sell my Hasselblad H3DII-39 for the same reasons of weight and size. But I shoot that system almost exclusively on a tripod so the weight and size become less of a problem.
Anyway, I want to rearrange my Nikon kit to work with my disability. Hopefully selling the big stuff and getting back to primes will do the job. If not I guess I will go with the Panasonic G1 LOL
Woody
