I have the disease and its expensive. - Ducati.ms

**Rainman** · Dec 6th, 2011, 12:37 pm

Ok, so the Nikon came with the basic lens kit.
Then I bought the 200mm Nikkor tele.

Today, following Bill's rec, I picked up a 300mm.

Now watching for the 24mm prime.
This is awfully expensive.

Is there a cure?

Or buy more lottery tickets...

LOL

Damn you guys....

bebopdontstop · Dec 6th, 2011, 1:15 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rainman

Ok, so the Nikon came with the basic lens kit.
Then I bought the 200mm Nikkor tele.

Today, following Bill's rec, I picked up a 300mm.

Now watching for the 24mm prime.
This is awfully expensive.

Is there a cure?

Or buy more lottery tickets...

LOL

Damn you guys....

And you SCUBA

You gots all da money.

Bill_Anderson · Dec 6th, 2011, 4:07 pm

Put the wife to work. If she is already working, tell her to get a second job.

rktspd · Dec 6th, 2011, 5:01 pm

i was in the same boat a few weeks ago. I got into mirrorless cameras which I love the portability. bought a couple of manual primes then auto primes. I couldn't stop. then i discovered this forum and now i have an 848 on order. needless to say, I havea new much more expensive hobby now.

DuckMan · Dec 6th, 2011, 8:47 pm

Get ya a TC1.4. It seems expensive until you learn what a wonderful addition it is. I'm not sure which 300 you got but if it's the F4 adding the TC makes it a fantastic 420 that still has the same minimum focusing distance as the 300 and doesn't degrade the image quality at all. Loosing a stop for clse up stuff doesnt matter since youll probably be shooting stopped way down for DOF. Makes a wonderful critter getter as it normally keeps you outside their fear zone.

These are a few examples with the 300 f4 and TC1.4:

**Rainman** · Dec 6th, 2011, 11:46 pm

The one I wound up with is the Nikon 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR AF-S DX Nikkor Zoom Lens for Nikon Digital SLR

Bill_Anderson · Dec 7th, 2011, 1:37 am

It's the old $lippery $lope: always looking for better camera$ and better len$e$.

SS904 · Dec 7th, 2011, 7:18 am

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rainman

Is there a cure?

No.

DuckMan · Dec 7th, 2011, 7:21 am

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rainman

The one I wound up with is the Nikon 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR AF-S DX Nikkor Zoom Lens for Nikon Digital SLR

Oh. Then may I suggest a 300 f4 prime. Awesome lens.

Jeph · Dec 7th, 2011, 7:42 am

It never ends. I bought the 70-200 f2.8 a while back when I bought a new body and now I am looking really hard at the 24-70 f2.8. Glass is addicting but then there is the other stuff along the way, strobes, wireless triggers, light modifiers... Its gonna get real bad soon.