What is NAS?

[mark newcombe www.mcnphoto]

NEW SYMTOP:

 

Bought a 2nd 70-200 to compare samples. Hope it doesn't spread to 200-400 or trouble will be a brewin.

[vivek iyer]

Just got back to this long thread. Shakil, could you post a picture of the inside of the cap?

 

J.U.M.? Beats me!

[Prof-K]

Vivek, I will do that sometime soon (currently no digi & no scanner, so will have to go to the friend's house to do that :-0).

[jeff h.]

I thought it stood for NEED ANOTHER SYSTEM! In other words, you start out with, say, a

Pentax camera or a Point & Shoot camera, and you want to take better pictures, so you get

a Canon system and invest a lot of money in camera bodies and lenses and every

accessory for everything, then you start to think that maybe the reason your pictures

aren't so great is that you are not using Leica glass, so you invest a lot more money in

Leica bodies and their fabled glass, then you start to realize that if you invested the same

money in a Zeiss system, you could afford a many more prime lenses, so you get a whole

Zeiss system (rangefinder or Contax, you try both), then you read on photo.net that it's the

size of the image negative that counts, so you start buying medium format gear (since it's

so cheap right now), but then you want to share pictures (and you realize that you really

do need auto focus and matrix metering after all) so you invest in an entire new Nikon

digital system....

[al_tan]

Help! It's got to me. I'm afflicted with NAS. I've got 3 lenses of the "normal" focal length.

 

What would Nikon do without us?

[juan_su]

NAS.... it's a love hate thing.

[uzay_ki_i]

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Yaron Kidron <a href="../member-status-icons"></a>, Nov 08, 2005; 10:25 p.m.</p>

 

<p>The 7 levels of NAS:<br>

(Level 1) You've set your mind on a Nikkor 50/1.8 AFD, but ended up buying that *and* the 50/1.4 AFD, because you heard it was better.<br>

(Level 2) Graduating from Level 1, you've sold the 50/1.8 AFD, because you heard it was made in China. Shortly after, you picked up the 50/1.8 AF version, which was made in Japan.<br>

(Level 3) Realizing your error, you buy the 50/1.8 AFD (Chinese version), just so you could compare it against your 50/1.8 AF version. You end up keeping both.<br>

(Level 4) You're starting to wonder how the AF Nikkors stack against the manual focus AIS bretherns. You buy the 50/1.4 AIS, and 50/1.8 AIS derivatives. You keep all 4 50's.<br>

(Level 5) Just to be sure, you add the 50/1.4 AI, 50/1.8 AI and 50/2 AI, because they can be bought for peanuts. The 45/2.8P, 55 Micro Nikkors (3.5 and 2.8 version), 60/2.8 AFD join the arsenal.<br>

(Level 6) You got to have faster glass. You first purchase the 50/1.2, then the 55/1.2, and then the 58/1.2 Noct Nikkor. You spend sleepless nights photographing brick walls, Financial Times double spreads, and USAF resolution charts. You contemplate which filters, hoods, and close up accessories best complement each lens.<br>

(Level 7) You apply all earlier levels to any Nikkor out there, F-mount to Large format.

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