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BTW, I suppose somebody here should remind those who have not previously purchased a Mack warranty that the most common/standard/default Mack warranty that has been offered over the years is ONLY a...

OK. This explains part of what I consider your problematic thinking. You are probably primarily a publisher who is only a "photographer" in a secondary or tertiary sense. I would imagine that most...

If you are a professional "on assignment" with "116 pages of editorial" to shoot (whatever that means - I have never quantified any job in pages; that is usually the client's choice), then you...

My opinion is that the supposition of the thread title is totally wrong. Why?If you buy a top flight lens, its life cycle will be somewhere between 7 and 20 years. And even if a slightly better one...

H Geek's advice is fine, but to be devil's advocate on this point: they are paying you hundreds (maybe thousands) of dollars to be there each day, so own it! Don't feel a tinge of guilt about...

Hi - Your questions seems so naive that it almost seems like your joking, which is probably why nobody has responded for 12 hours. But maybe this will help you...An event photographer who is doing...

The 24-70 is my favorite Nikon lens, as it's the mid-range workhorse for event photography, and it's better than the Canon mark1 version that I came from. That being said... The one clear weakness...

Uh, just the exact same reason for which every classic prime was designed prior to DSLRs.

No, that is completely wrong. You have not read how PDAF sensors work. Assuming that you are doing most of your wedding photography using the optical viewfinder (PDAF) and not live view (CDAF),...

So to use your shot below as example: At 12 feet, the 2.8 VR2 lens when set at 200mm on the zoom ring would actually give you the field of view of perhaps 155mm due to its breathing issue. The new...

There has been discussion of this point in the similar thread on the Nikon lens board. To answer your question, that is answered by looking at the lens' specified maximum magnification. And since...

It's a difference of exactly 1 stop, which is what it is. The DoF difference is not huge, and the bokeh will likely be fine. Since this new lens does not have the huge focus breathing behavior of...

Did you have the IS or non-IS? Because they are not he same. The 4 IS is far better and was definitely way better than the 2.8 IS MK1.

They often come back from service with AF Fine Tune turned off, so I suggest you turn it back on and find the "perfect" setting for the center point, then do your live view comparisons against the...

This is consistent with what I've recently heard. A trusted outside source told me directly that Nikon had just got what is possibly a "final" fix within the last two weeks. After that, I wrote...

Ha ha. Yes, they edited the text to insert that remark after my comment on that page... See the comment and reply there :)In any case, this is good news. It means is probably has the same unknown...

So now DPReview has published their first "hands on," and they did not mention seals at all, in either the affirmative or the negative. And as another user pointed out, they didn't mention the...

Can you DEFINITIVELY say whether or not it is weather sealed??? This is a huge question, and you are REMISS to not answer it, having handled the actual lens! I will note that Nikon spec sheets can...

Can you DEFINITIVELY say whether or not it is weather sealed??? This is a huge question, and you are REMISS to not answer it, having handled the actual lens! I will note that Nikon spec sheets can...

Yes, so long as the venue was not too dark, because the combination of better VR plus more than TWICE the max magnification at MFD (according to its spec sheet) makes a huge difference for details...