Originally posted by bossa If I wasn't considering the 60-250 then I would have bid up to 1200 but no more. I also know where there's a brand new Nikon one at a shop and they want $1695 for it. But I've also read a few mixed reviews on the lens and was a tad wary, I suppose, and in the end it was probably more the clutch manual focus and no HSM that put me off bidding any further. Sorry if I gave the wrong impression there in my 1st response.
I'm starting to wonder if I shouldn't have bought another brand camera for my 2nd body really, as much as I like the K-5.
$1695! Ouch. Kidding aside, if you want a Sigma 100-300/4, the one I have is in EX+ condition and you can have it for less than half that price, including shipping
That should leave you plenty of extra money for a used D300 to go with it
That's another advantage of the 100-300/4 in the Nikon mount; it has HSM and full-time-manual focusing without a switch/clutch. The Sigma 1.4x works pretty well with it too, giving you a somewhat inexpensive 140-420/5.6 setup.
Originally posted by cmohr I almost very nearly did exactly that, was 1 second away from buying that Nikon mount one with the 2x and then get a second hand Nikon body, but I really wanted to stay with just the one system, then I completely lost my mind and bought the 300/2.8, oh LBA leave me alone will you....
So far I've been able to control my LBA enough to stay away from 300/2.8 lenses. I wasn't so fortunate in my ability to stick with one system