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From: jmleask@wateng.UUCP (Jim Leask)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: advice on camera
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Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 23:06:31 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  5 23:06:31 1985
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Reply-To: jmleask@wateng.UUCP (Jim Leask)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

>> I'm pretty much staying away from Nikkor because of their limited
>> zoom ranges and gawd-awful prices.
>
>......
>find that they don't want to pay "gawd-awful prices" for the
>good Nikkor lenses.  There are a lot of other good lenses, but
>most of them are made by Pentax, Canon, Minolta, and Olympus;
>and not by these discount house brand names.

There seems to be a bit of NIKKOR bashing here, that for the most part
is warrented :-).  But... I have a NIKKOR 35-105 zoom which doesn't fall into
the category described above.  The lens it small, 52mm opening so
all your filters fit, and seems to have great optics.  I never
take the lens off my camera.  This lens is relatively cheap
however.  I think it is going for about $270 US which is right
in line with the other 'discount' lenses.  This lens is a bit
hard to find since most stores like to deal in cheaper stuff, but
I recommend anyone with a Nikon camera to not indiscriminately
rule out NIKKOR as a possible lens. Ask around and don't let the
sales person just show you anything because this lens is sold out.
	As far as lights, bells etc on the camera.. who needs it.
Photography is to much fun to let the camera do it all.
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	Jim Leask	..!watmath!wateng!jmleask
			University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada