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<blockquote data-quote="Fortkentdad" data-source="post: 344376" data-attributes="member: 24285">I faced exactly that same choice - I was in the camera store holding a D7100 when my dear wife said &quot;Don't settle for the cheaper one - get the one you really want&quot;&nbsp; - love my wife.&nbsp; It was almost my 60th birthday and she decided to buy the 60mm Micro lens at the same time - a 60 for my 60th sounded great to me.&nbsp; It is my only new FX lens.&nbsp; All the rest are from my 35mm days of ol' or bought used.&nbsp; The D610 does detect DX lenses and can auto-crop to compensate for them easily to still get some mileage out of those lenses too.&nbsp; As for storage - a lot has to do with how well you cull your pictures - keeping JPG and NEF of every pic will eat up hard disk space.&nbsp; But HD space is cheap nowadays.&nbsp; I have a 2T in my windows desktop, it also has two SSD's for programs.&nbsp; I have a 4th HD - a 3T which serves as a backup to the other three which don't add up to 3T combined.&nbsp; Want to add an external 3T (or maybe 4T) to back up my backup.&nbsp; Currently only have one 300mb external which is too small.&nbsp; I now have 367 GB of images on my 2T drive - mind you that dates back to 2003.&nbsp; But files are now much bigger and I take many more of them.&nbsp; Trick is to not keep every single picture (at least not in duplicate).&nbsp; As for Windows - I'm using Windows 8 and doing fine.&nbsp; Tried Mac - not for me.&nbsp; Also have a Window 7 laptop for when I travel but prefer my desktop for serious processing.&nbsp; I use Corel Paintshop Pro X6 for most processing now.&nbsp; Gave up on Adobe, won't &quot;rent&quot; my software and it is way overpriced.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fortkentdad, post: 344376, member: 24285"] I faced exactly that same choice - I was in the camera store holding a D7100 when my dear wife said "Don't settle for the cheaper one - get the one you really want" - love my wife. It was almost my 60th birthday and she decided to buy the 60mm Micro lens at the same time - a 60 for my 60th sounded great to me. It is my only new FX lens. All the rest are from my 35mm days of ol' or bought used. The D610 does detect DX lenses and can auto-crop to compensate for them easily to still get some mileage out of those lenses too. As for storage - a lot has to do with how well you cull your pictures - keeping JPG and NEF of every pic will eat up hard disk space. But HD space is cheap nowadays. I have a 2T in my windows desktop, it also has two SSD's for programs. I have a 4th HD - a 3T which serves as a backup to the other three which don't add up to 3T combined. Want to add an external 3T (or maybe 4T) to back up my backup. Currently only have one 300mb external which is too small. I now have 367 GB of images on my 2T drive - mind you that dates back to 2003. But files are now much bigger and I take many more of them. Trick is to not keep every single picture (at least not in duplicate). As for Windows - I'm using Windows 8 and doing fine. Tried Mac - not for me. Also have a Window 7 laptop for when I travel but prefer my desktop for serious processing. I use Corel Paintshop Pro X6 for most processing now. Gave up on Adobe, won't "rent" my software and it is way overpriced. [/QUOTE]

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