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Old 01/10/2008, 02:47 PM
KurtsReef KurtsReef is offline
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Nikon does not put anything in the name of their pro glass, it does have a gold band around the end of the lens. So you would just see 85mm f/1.4

I am not a Canon shooter, but think when you hear them refer to "L" glass that is the Canon pro line and the L is in the name of the lens. 85mm f/1.2L


Yes, I was simply stating that a lens that is VR is not necessarily professional quality. As Mauroun stated it has to do with materials used and not a feature such as vibration reduction. So seeing something like 28-200 f/3.2-5.6 VR does not indicate it is a pro lens.

Worry more about the lens your going to buy than the camera body.

For an inexpensive but pretty good lens, the kit lens that came with the D70 (18-70 I think was the focal length of the lens) although a bit loose in its control has some very good image quality. What I mean by loose is that if you aim the camera straight down it more than likely will zoom out on you and not stay where you had it sitting and when changing the focal length you feel some play in the lens.