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but i got into birding and just dropped a wad on the 300mm f/4 af-s and the tc-14eii (and a battery grip).
Yeah, I'm sure you just love watching beautiful "birds", always dying to try out your extra long, fat "lens" on them.
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i think my 85mm f/1.8g (hands down best value in the entire current nikkor lineup) would probably best the 105mm dc for portraits though, so, i didn't buy overlap. i still kinda want the 135 though.
You misread the memo - you're supposed to buy lots of overlap, but just not carry it at the same time. You pick out one to three non-overlapping lenses that suit the mission to carry with you. Besides, the DC lenses are unique and don't count as overlap with anything else, as you won't get the same effect any other way.
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with my luck, as soon as i buy it, they'll announce a new 135mm dc f/2 g vriii or something.
And when they do it'll have more distortion, more falloff, cheap plastic construction, and won't work with older manual cameras. Just like the 50mm f/1.8G has more distortion and poorer build than the 50mm f/1.8D, but somehow manages to be heavier and more expensive (yeah, I know you can't autofocus the 50mm f/1.8D with the entry-level DSLRs as they lack a focus motor in the body - it's a scam to force you to pay more for G lenses that actually have poorer optics).
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