Half a year later ... (II)

What has happened?? What went wrong??

By far more serious, however, was the impact that watching the YouTube Channel of Ken Wheeler aka Theoria Apophasis aka The Angry Photographer had.
There are many, who dislike him a lot and to some extent I agree thinking that he could do things in a much nicer way. But as far as I have come to know him through his channel, he really is an expert in lenses and knows, what he is talking about ("compared to what?" is one of his catch phrases).
For me, his older videos about Nikon lenses and lenses for Nikon F mount (unfortunately for me he has now mostly switched to making videos about Fuji) were extremely useful and basically eye openers. I frankly admit I learned really much. The most important lesson for me was to lust less for new lenses that are potentially sharper have image stabilization and a quicker AF and to have a look at and appreciate a. older lenses or b. newer manual only lenses without image stabilization. I always double checked what he said against the information Ken Rockwell gave (and also buyed a few very cheap lenses only on the basis of the information and advice on that website). In most cases they agreed.

So, I decided to put my wish for two of the classic but expensive 'Holy Trinity' lenses - the Tamron SP 24-70mm f/2,8 Di VC USD G2 and the Tamron SP 70-200mm f/2,8 Di VC USD G2 (I bought the third one, the Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 Di VC USD  [the G2 version was not out then] but now think of getting rid of this one) - aside and to give other lenses a try. A pleasant side effect was that I was able to buy for the same price that would have cost me those two lenses a lot more and amongst them some primes.

Taken with Nikon 60mm at f/13, 1/320sec. ISO 100

As a substitute for the Tamron SP 24-70mm f/2,8 Di VC USD G2 I bought some lenses, zooms and primes: Among the zooms are the wonderful Nikon 35-70mm f/2.8 AF and the cheap but great and light Nikon 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G, among the primes the Nikon 35mm f/2 AF-D, the Nikon 50mm f/1.8 Series E, and the Nikon 60mm f/2.8 Micro AF-D.

Taken with Nikon 135mm at f/2.8, 1/1250sec. ISO 250

As a substitute for the Tamron SP 70-200mm f/2,8 Di VC USD G2 I also bought some lenses, zooms and primes: The zooms are the Nikon 70-210mm f/4 AF and the Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 AF-D, among the primes are the (all excellent) Nikon 105mm f/2.5 AI-S, the Nikon 135mm f/2.8 AI-S and the Nikon 200mm f/4 AI.

Taken with Nikon 75-150mm at f/8, 1/500 sec. ISO 320

I was also able to find a very cheap copy of the Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5, the lens Galen Rowell used to shoot his famous photo 'Rainbow Over the Potala Palace'.

So, for roughly the same price I got a lot more lenses with a lot more possibilities of use. If you now ask me, if I do miss the two originally envisaged lenses, then the short answer is: NO!