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The new 18-200 VR DX lens already takes into account the 1.5 crop factor. It's a DX lens.


The 18-200 VRDX like all DX lenses do not factor in the 1.5 factor. DX simply (not really simple) means the lens cannot fill full frame sensors (as in film cameras in Nikon's case). From Nikon's site
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"Offers broad 18 - 200mm focal range for use in a variety of situations (equivalent to a 27-300 lens in 35mm format) ".


Digital SLRs all suffer from one major problem which is exposure to the atmosphere of the sensor. This is not insignificant. Low noise sensors do you very little good when on a windy day in the field, you need to change lenses and you get dust on the sensor. You download your pics for review and you have big dust blobs in the sky. Then it's back to Nikon for a cleaning.

As to Nikon's margins, who cares except Nikon? I think someone will make this camera (the aperture/sensor size will have to be thought out as pros will not accept less than F2.8) because there will be a demand for it simply due to price and more importantly size. Lug around a 400 f2.8 and you will see what I mean.

The D3X is purported to be out next September with total speculation of a retention of the sensor size (obviously) and 16 MP. With more MP available, the photographer can afford to carry smaller cameras as they have more to play with when they crop.

Hmmm.... This got me to thinking. Build a 50 MP camera and just shoot everything with a 18-100 DXVR and make Photoshop your telephoto.

This got me thinking even more, I ought to sell my D2H, 400 F2.8, 300 f2.8 and 200-400 F4 and just buy the D2X with a 70-200 F2.8 VR. Comments?