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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 474113" data-attributes="member: 12496">Yes, the f/2.8 zoom quality can match the primes.  But the longer 70-200 f/2.8 can blur the backgrounds better (but is pretty long for general work on DX).  They are pricy, but are comparable to the price of a better body.    I use the 70-200 for my portrait lens on a FX D800. And speaking of cropping, this is 100% crop, 120mm at 10 feet here, on a 36 megapixel D800 (click it for larger, but realize that full screen on a HD wide monitor is only 2 megapixels - this crop is only about 0.3 megapixels.) This is f/8, I am not a fan of  f/1.8.<img src="http://www.scantips.com/g2/crop2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>