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Keeping this blog has helped me realized just whata big camera geek I am… Ugh this post is pretty embarrasing, but here goes!

A while ago I posted about how at all the events I go to, it looks like Canon amateur DSLR’s are getting outnumbered by Nikon DSLR’s by a pretty consistent margin.

Well on Saturday I went to Disneyland’s red carpet premier for Pirates 3, and then on Sunday to the San Diego Wild Animal Park to check out a June wedding location with a client.

Disneyland has been consistently Nikon > Canon and Saturdya was no exception among amateurs, although I wil note that the vast majority of the pro, press-pass holding paparazzi had Canon pro cameras.

The wild animal park however might have been slightly Canon dominated.

But the one BIG thing I realized was this:

Nikon: 70-200 f/2.8 VR.

Canon: 70-200 f/2.8 IS, 70-200 f/2.8, 70-200 f/4 IS, 70-200 f/4.

For some reason, this seems to be the “known” lens collection between the two brands. Yes, I mean to say that I saw tons and tons of Canon 70-200 lenses, and barely any Nikon’s.

Now major geeks will know that this isn’t exactly true, Nikon makes a handful of various 80-200 f/2.8 AF and AF-S lenses. But the general public doesn’t seem to remember this, all they do is whine for Nikon to make 70-200 f/4 lenses, one with VR anad one without, just like Canon has.

I think Nikon does owe the consumers a few more f/4 pro zooms, actually. The 80-200 f/2.8 lenses are some of the sharpest lenses ever made, and Nikon could get away with not making a 70-200 f/2.8 AF-S. But f/4 lenses need to come.

Oh and while they’er at it, give me an 80-400 f/4.5-5.6 AF-S VR, as an update to the 80-400 f/4.5-5.6 AF-D VR. That would be sweet…

-Matt-