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love my 105 f/2 DC. Those two were made during paintball game with D200 iso200 f/2.8 if I'm not mistaken.</p>

<p>Agreed with Robert. I'm using DC version on FX and DX mostly for portraits since I don't think it's fast enough for low light photography<br>

I think you should also consider 85mm 1.4 cause it's faster and a little bit smaller than 105mm DC.</p>

<p>Don't listen to Ken Rockwell. Sigma 30 1.4 is a very good lens. The only real problem with sigma - is build quality. Sigma is well known to differentiate build quality from sample to sample, so it's highly advisable to choose best sample among several lens samples right in the store. <br>

Nikkor 35 f/2 is also nice, but to my taste it's not fast enough for lowlight photography </p>

<p>don't forget to consider recently announced Sony Alfa A850 :) It's also full frame<br>

one friend of mine made this calculation recently:<br>

SONY/Minolta<br>

SAL-70200G Zoom AF 70-200mm f/2.8 APO G(D) SSM - 1800<br />SAL-2470Z 24-70mm f/2.8 Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* - 1600<br />SAL-1635Z 16-35mm f/2.8 ZA SSM Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* - 1900<br />--------------<br />5300$</p>

<p>NIKON<br>

Zoom Telephoto AF VR Zoom Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 G-AFS ED-IF - 1870<br />Zoom Wide Angle-Telephoto AF-S Zoom Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED - 1800<br />AF-S Zoom Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF Lens - 1830<br />--------------<br />5500$</p>

<p>Canon<br>

Canon Zoom Wide Angle-Telephoto EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM - 1350<br />Canon Zoom Super Wide Angle EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM - 1550<br />Canon Zoom Telephoto EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM - 1900<br />--------------<br />4800$</p>

<p>Personally I would skip Zeiss 35mm f/2 (i really did) for huge amounts of purple fringing wide open... this really kills picture. It's NOT sharp wide open, altought after f/4 sharpness is nice. Bokeh is rather rude, but on 35mm who really cares? What is really outstanding about this lens is build quality. But for the price of Zeiss I found old Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 to be a better competitor. <br>

I think the only lens that fits the 'legendary' tag in this range is newly Nikkor 12-24 f/2.8<br /><br />and real legend is 'The cream machine' Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 :)</p>