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Thanks! I feel like a big shot now with inside connections an' shit. I guess I better start rummaging through my box to collect the negatives in question. This part might not be so fun. Since I used to do everything through a retail photo developer, my organization system was basically sprawling piles of 4x6 print envelopes...

My last toy for a while just arrived: a 24mm/f1.8 lens, made by Sigma. The fact that such a fast, wide lens exists for so cheap kind of blows my mind. And it seems to compare favorably to similar Canon L lenses in tests that cost about 5 times as much. Unfortunately, with the crop factor, it's more like a much less impressive 36 for digital. I look forward to the day when full-frame sensors come down into a reasonable price range - that crop factor business blows.

Specs-wise, this is probably the fastest and cheapest, and the cheapest retailer::

http://www.sigmaphoto.com/html/zoom_intro.htm

http://www.digitalfotoclub.com/sc/from-pricegrabber.asp?id=964589911&rf=pg&dfdate=10_06_2004

I just bought my sigma from this retailer. Saved $50 and no problems. They'll save you $100 on that zoom.

Holy crap! They've got the grey market Nikkor for almost the same price:

http://www.digitalfotoclub.com/sc/from-pricegrabber.asp?id=645523054&rf=pg&dfdate=10_06_2004

That's insane. The retail on that is $1400.