jhinkey wrote:
-1 You don't have to spend a bundle to get good glass for a D800(e). You can it you want, but depending on your needs you don't necessarily have to.
Going to side with this idea. For some lens options unless I missed a major rerelease a person is still looking D or AI(S) options only for certain focal lengths. Hell, legit choices with even some g glass competition in that range imo. All I am seeing in the many new G lens recipes is some clearing up at wider apertures of "busy" bokeh. At f4 and higher one could post say 35 1.4G and AIS side by side and only the poster would know which is which if they didn't label the shots and wiped .exif. And other improvements for stuff not even related to resolution like af speed ofc.
3rd party, you could pick up lots .1 zf glass for a nice price as well in some cases (the 35 F/2 .1 zf real nice priced and all you have to do is plug its info into the camera, less than a minute process). .1 optics the same as the .2's afaik for most glass rolling off the current cosina lines optically, just no chipping. And if the new gear heads are saying zeiss can't get the resolution off of a d800, hope their employers don't fire up their random drug testing option often lol.
There is always the plastic fantastic! Otherwise known as the Tokina 19-35mm. I picked one up when I first got my D700 because I was in a similar position. Only thing I didn't like is the close focusing distance. Everything else on the lens was fantastic.
Come on Kent, we all know the glass has little importance, it just keeps dust off the sensor