Some poster here sound like they long for the good old days when you could get a shave, a haircut, a tooth pulled, abd brain surgery at the corner barbershop. If you want to compare photography to Da Vinci, you won't find any artists that mix thier own paints, which he had to.

Yes, film is still available, so is tin, and there are still a few who do tin-type photography.

On an extremely routine basis we unskilled amatures do things that Mr A Adams would have given a limb to be able to do. Enjoy technology, and put the old grey mare out to pasture, the age of the steam tractor has changed farming forever!

Welcome to 2015!

I bought a refurb D7100 and my girlfriend now has a D7100. She also took my 18-55 and my 55-200 kit lenses that came with my D3200. She loves 'her' camera! I just ordered a refurb D610 from B&H and it shipped this morning which will leave me with an excellent camera and no wide to medium focal lengths for it. I do have a Sigma 70-300 that I can use along with my Nikon 300mm f/4 AF-s and my Nikon 500mm f/4P.
My budget is roughly $1000 for some new glass. I prefer fixed focal lengths, f/1.8 is plenty fast enough for me, but I will consider another zoom if it offers sharp, quality images.
I could use some advice on lenses for me to investigate, I prefer Nikon glass but am open to other brands. Thank you!
Norman Lowe

One of my peeves (not a pet peeve) is when someone refers to a lens as "glass", like in this title from a recent topic, "Suggestions for Nikon FX glass for . . .". One UHHer I have seen will list his various cameras on the first line of the bio that appears whenever he posts something. On the second line he lists his "glass". To me a window is made of glass. I get a drink of water in a glass. That doohickey on the front of a camera is called a lens, not glass.

OK. I got that off my chest. Now we can get back to more serious matters.

P.S. To the person whose topic that was I referred to, I have no suggestions for "glass" for your Nikon FX.

Ok, after hours and hours of scouring the net, I'm still not finding anything even remotely close to addressing my problem.

I bought the lens new, years ago. I use the caps and never store it mounted to the cameras. It's been my FAVORITE lens and had never let me down until the last 2 weeks. Now, it won't open to f2.8. F5.0 is the best it will do. It also won't let me change the vertical focal point, only horizontal.

It's never been dropped or abused and still takes otherwise perfect photos. I'm just at a loss (and have a photo shoot to do today). I know I won't get an answer in time for the shoot but I'm still hoping someone might ay least know the "why?" of it.