morgan_gray

<p>Hey Marvin, I'm on the August waitlist for a 45n-1 as well, I guess we're in the same boat on this one. I've been told pretty much the same advice that's been given here. I'm probably going to get a rodenstock 150mm as my first lens, but who knows, I still have 2 months to roll that kind of decision around... Ahh the anticipation.</p>

Because you know damn well that spending $1400 for a lens that doesn't hold a golden key to the gates of a good photograph is absurd. Go with a 1.4 that will closely match the lens and feel good about not succumbing to your brains way of testing whether or not you can honestly answer the question: Is it absolutely necessary? With any new toy comes the effect of a bias, the photographs taken by the 50 1.2L are great, I'm not disagreeing with that, but you can easily make shots that are just as good with something that doesn't make you feel guilty about making an ill decision.

That article= NCPS, NCPS, NCPS, NCPS, NCPS, NCPS... and did I mention that they handle mail orders too!?!! Very subtle, I wonder how much he get's paid for dropping names like their assigned to a fucking macro key.

Besides the company competition viewpoint of Canon vs Nikon, does anyone truly care what other people are using? I don't understand how that affects you in any way, shape or form. Maybe commonly used lenses would be nice to pay attention to, but the body doesn't really seem like the key to success for people with more money and memorized technical specs than common sense or skill.

Maybe some of you should stop worrying so much about equipment and start taking pictures... Jesus, it never ends. And I thought I was desperate for new gear. I shoot a d40x for Christ's sake. Talk to me about High-Iso performance or sharpness, you have a D700, stop bitching.