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Iain wrote:
May be good glass Robert but the weight of the 400 F2.8 would be enough to make me part with it. The 300, that would be a different story.
The weight is so much more severe once you get a bit used to carrying around a Fuji most of the time. That can really spoil you !
My 'brand loyalty' and the fact I am locked into one system prevents me from experimenting with alternatives. I am hard pressed to afford one set of gear, two sets would be completely out of reach.
At my last visit to car racing, one lad had what I think was a Sony... It was a tiny camera, the lad told me it was full frame, he uses it almost exclusively for video. He had a Pele? case full of very fast, top Canon lenses which he uses on the Sony via an adaptor. It appeared to be mirrorless, basically a sensor on the back of the lens.
In the building/construction trade lightweight gear is useless/rubbish. I have grown accustomed to working with heavy gear all my life and consider the D3 and a 2.8 Nikkor to be featherweight in comparison with a 90Lb rock drill leaping about trying to do it's own thing, or lifting a half ton beam in by hand on my own.
I accept it can get a bit heavy after walking 9 miles back and forth all day round a circuit but it keeps me fit, some people pay thousands of £ to lift weights in a gym, or ride a bike bolted to the floor, which I see as about as pointless as it gets.
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Robert.