I’ve written before about my propensity to sell equipment that I’ve not used in while. Sometimes, though, I have to keep this urge in check. At one point, not to long ago, I had considered selling my Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8. This lens is by far the sharpest lens with the most beautiful bokeh that I have seen. I had decided to sell it since I hadn’t been using it. Let’s face it, it’s a tank! It’s very heavy and cannot be used hand-held at all unless you have some really high shutter speeds. My arms shake just thinking about it. 
I use it on the tripod 100% of the time.
Well, I didn’t sell it. I had taken the pictures of it and was about to put my listing on eBay, but then chickened out at the last moment. I decided to place it on the camera and get reacquainted with it and boy am I glad that I did. This lens have definite “wow” factor. Little needs to be done to the image, especially sharpening. This lens, when you zoom in to 100% all you get is sharpness and hardly any chromatic aberration. All of my lenses should be like this! However, to round out the ‘desired set’. I’d need:
14-24mm f/2.8 ($1800)
24-70mm f/2.8 ($1700)
Nikon D700 ($2700)
Now, let’s see … that comes to $6,200 USD! That’s a lot of paper. I figure that if I have all of those sweet, non-DX lenses, I might as well have a non-DX body! 
Well, at the rate that we are burning through money in my family this year, it ain’t gonna happen! No part of it! Now, if some rich blog reader would like to donate these items … well, how could I say no?
This photo, as well as the photos from the last 4 days have been taken with the 80-200mm. I find it hard to take it off of my camera, now!
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