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Originally posted by: jpeyton
I got my Nikon 80-200mm F/2.8 for $400 used; fast zooms are out there, especially with a lot of people trading them in for VR/IS lenses.
That's not bad at all
But different people have different definitions of fast. f/2.8 is certainly quite good for a zoom, especially something in the 200mm range. For zoom lenses in the normal range, like from 20mm to 80mm, f/2.8 just seems too slow for me, coming from f/1.8 and f/1.4 primes.