D800E + Nikkor 70-300 VR

Quite frankly for 4 years I've been anticipating a 24MP successor to the D700 and I've been restricting myself to only collect lenses - whenever possible - that would work well on a D3X (based on photozone reviews and MTF charts, among others). That said even with very careful purchase planning, 36mp was still a major surprise.

70-300 would work okay given the budget constraint, just use 1.2x crop mode for the long end, as the pixels outside of the 1.2x crop area wouldn't be of much value anyways :).

As for the 70-200/4, I've yet to try the TC-14EII on it. But I've tired the TC-20E3 and the results were not good - 70-200VR2 matched with TC20E3 was okay to fair in my book, and the f/4 doesn't quite make it.

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D800E, 16-35/4, 24-70/2.8, 70-200 VR2, TC-20E3, 28-300VR, 24/1.4G, 50/1.8G, 85/1.8G.