Hi is the D750 a USA model or grey market? Thanks. Dave

Steve, excellent Nikon AF info you have put out. Thanks. Nikon D850- try Kenmore Camera in Washington State. Great place, honest people, excellent stock on hand, generally speaking. Looks like it is on order there too, at the moment.

Great photos, thanks for sharing. Love those Owls! Canon seems to have so many well made single focal length lenses, unlike other manufacturers.
This is no doubt one of those lenses. Bright light does help at f5.6...

We are second owner of this lens. Very good condition, 100 pct functional, not loose or dirty. Very glean glass. Front lens cap was lost, but a Hoya Skylight filter is included on the front of the lens. Includes Canon rear lens cap, of course. No box etc. This is a very nice optic that is sharp and has great USM AF, and is stabilized. Very light use and very clean. Works great on a 7D Mark II. No issues with this sample, very happy with it, using mirrorless more and more and not using it enough to justify having it around. Reasonable at $245. I have a PAYPAL account and could do it that way. Would ship immediately Priority US MAIL to US addresses, etc.

There is also a scam now to get your cell phone number and email address. They compile lists of them and cell them. This happened to a friend and the calls that resulted were endless. Don't send your phone number- insist on communicating through the Craig's List email service only. Come on-s like "I tried your email at Craig's list and its not working! Please send a phone number" etc., are a dead giveaway. Lots of the scams are from offshore US and Eastern Europe.
Be very careful on C List...

Beautiful lens, and picture. I love the old Nikon lenses too. I have the 105 f4 and its very nice. Also use a Df, and with regards to the first question, I have heard that the Tamron 90 f2.8 is a great lens, one of their standouts. I personally like the build and feel of the current line of Sigma lenses better. But as Kiron Kid Russ points out so well above, finding a used 105 2.5 Nikkor, even a pre-AI version, could serve your purpose - and for portraits a macro lens is not always the best anyways, as they are optimized for close up use etc. The beauty of the Df is that you can use the old non AI lenses (with just the flip of a tab) as well as the AI lenses and a whole range of options are open for you. The bigger question is: does one want AF or not, and if not, I am sure a used 85 or 105 Nikkor lens - even a 135, could be found pretty inexpensively. I have a pre-AI Nikkor 85mm f1.8 and I think it makes gorgeous images with nice bokeh and great sharpness. Even an older off brand MF Nikon mount lens might work fine, IF MF is OK. With a Df, you have tons of options!

D500 deep buffer and crazy good autofocus for action. Were I not shooting sports etc., I would prefer a D750 for general photography, obviously need to switch to full frame lenses, but D500 is more of a purpose built camera. I have friends with Fuji systems and I think its a fabulous line. The EVF is wonderful, the dial layout of the XT1 and XT2 very nice to use, and the image quality and build quality are both very high. The good Fuji lenses seem to be superb, extremely well made. According to friends Fuji has a few quirks but each firmware release and newer model makes them less and less a problem. The Fuji system is extremely tempting and has an old world and quality feel to it. I would lean towards the XT2 especially if one is not shooting action - sports etc., (D500), but I have also seen Fuji users shooting motorsports with the XT2 and the fast lenses and they swear by it, two I know of sold their Canon stuff and use Fuji exclusively now. The "new old stock" XT-1 cameras are very affordable and produce superb results, and have new firmware that makes them very capable. That could be all one needs also, 16 vs 24MP but 16 is more than enough for most people and uses...

Very nice, love that town, want to go back!

I found a good copy of the Nikkor AF-D 28-70 3.5-4.5 and really like it on a Df. Also have a used 35-70 f2.8 AFD, larger and heavier, both affordable and good lenses, fairly common used, though the 35-70 one needs to watch the lens slip as it is a push pull. For a single small sharp prime I love the Voigtlander 40mm f2.0, small and marvelous. Since a D3 is the body, having a larger zoom would be no problem. I really like my 28-70 and on that 12 megapixel sensor it should be fine. One thing on the D3 that I found was it seemed to attract dust, or at least mine did, on the sensor. Full frame sensors provide a larger playing field for all manner of dust and crud floating about. D3 has no self cleaning function and for that reason, changing lenses in the field should be done very carefully or as little as possible in my opinion. Another advantage to the zoom lens as a walk around- no lens changes. The D3 is great in low light so for image stabilization just spin up the ISO dial a little and get more shutter speed. ;)

Lovely. I want to go there and many other places in Scotland, with a couple of cameras, and enough time to stop for a Guinness or two (or3).

I have friends who really like the 80D. If you are good in post with your RAW files I think all the options would be very usable.
I am not qualified with enough knowledge about the newest Canon lineup other than what I have used (7DII) and as I had
stated really depends on what one's ultimate uses would be, and matching that to the design features of the cameras being considered etc.
Its pretty hard to keep up with new models and technologies now. I have found myself pulling back and concentrating on improving my
photography and spending less time with considering gear options. There are so many good options compared to say 5 years ago
that its hard to go wrong. I still like to shoot film occasionally,and really miss medium format. Apologies for the shallow answer but that
is about the best I can do.

Absolutely gorgeous Owl shots. Beautiful creatures, thanks for posting.

I guess it depends on what your end use of the camera would be. For travel it might be one like the 77D, for sports and action the 7DII or the 80D.
I have used the 7DII and its a pretty incredible machine, with a deep buffer and snappy latest tech autofocus with enormous variety of AF settings and bias, depending on what you are shooting. Modern and up to date? With the AF system from the EOS 1DX, for me anyways, it would be the 7D Mark II. With a 7D Mark III coming out next year, perhaps that will be it. It all gets back to the feature set needed for one's specific uses. They all are pretty damn nice.

Lots of great advice and good choices. I personally like the version one of the Olympus OMD EM-1. Small, sturdy and light, great in body stabilization, excellent image quality with the right lens. A somewhat dense and deep menu system, and a few quirks, but after you learn it, its a quite spectacular tool. I know there are lots of folks who dismiss micro 4/3 out of hand but a little more depth of field and in body stabilization in a small package can be great. Low light? APSC and full frame sensors have better high ISO performance for sure, but I find very good results to ISO 1600 and the .jpegs in the version one EM-1 are very nice and true. Also great reach from small and compact zoom lenses, allow you to capture shots you might not get otherwise, due to the size of APSC and full frame system zoom lenses. Lets face it, traveling lighter and smaller is a good thing these days. My other favorite travel camera is the Nikon Df. The other end of the spectrum. Its always had its detractors and its always been a bit over priced, but I think the images that come out of it are gorgeous, it's incredible in low light, and the battery life is down right fantastic. I combined micro four thirds and the Df (with small lenses) on a recent trip to New Zealand and loved the combo. Once used to the Df controls, its a nice camera and I have gotten to the point where I really like the ISO dial, for instance. Its not a camera for everyone but I love mine and love using it with small MF Nikkor lenses, like the AIS 20mm f3.5, for instance. I was one of the people who scorned the Df when it came out, then I bought a used one a couple years later, and now I love it, so I guess I ate crow. Regardless, there are so many great potential travel cameras out there now, like the Fuji XT-1 and XT-2, Sony, Panasonic etc., that we are all lucky travelers now, aren't we? :)