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I think a used Sigma 17-50 f/2.8 would fit the bill nicely. I have one and like it very much.

Oh yeah, the 17-35 gives horribly distorted stars near and at the corners. I like my 14-24 much better for astro.

And the 1.5X  crop factor to boot!

Hi Melvin, I have that combination too and absolutely love it. I once considered the Tamron 100-400 and did some research. I found quite the mixed bag in terms of good/bad reviews, so perhaps be ...

Fantastic! Post some pics and more thoughts on it when you can. Do you have a gimbal head?

It's a great lens, and I love mine, but if you look up "lens flare" in the dictionary, there will be a picture of the Nikon 14-24. Life is short. Spend as much time as you can quibbling with ...

Yes. I shoot landscapes most of the time, and I manually focus at various points in the scene for each shot to get one with the depth of field I'm looking for.

I'm very happy with my old 17-35. The motor squeaks a bit on first actuation but I use it manual focus for landscape and other stuff anyway, so I'll not have it fixed if and when it does quit. I ...

I recently got a TC14B for my 800 and am very surprised at how little the image quality gets degraded when using it. The results are more than satisfactory to me, and I would consider myself at ...

Wonderful images! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks! You're welcome! It's a fun lens.

I'm pretty sure that on my manual focus Nikkor 800mm f/5.6 that most forward ring is used to quickly bring the lens to a preset focus point by turning the main focus ring, which stops at that ...

Yep, fungus spores are everywhere, so subject just about any object to the right (wrong) conditions, and the fungus will grow. When I was an x-ray tech, I had a lens that I was worried about. So, I ...

Great captures, kayaker! I recently got the 1.4 TC for it, and my testing showed very little, if any, image quality degradation using it.

Hello hypercore360, Here's a moon pic taken with that lens last May. I think it must have been a particularly good night in terms of a minimum of atmospheric disturbance going on, but this is what ...