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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joseph Bautsch" data-source="post: 10219" data-attributes="member: 654"><p>As Bill points out there are any number of these lenses on EBay or Amazon you should be able to buy within your price range. The ones without the VR are very good. You just have to remember the hand held rule of shutter speed at least as fast as the focal length you are shooting with, (200mm = 1/200 sec.). Also a tripod or monopod work to stabilize the longer focal length at slower shutter speeds. And as Bill has also pointed out on the older ED models the mount is metal and on the G model it is plastic. I would prefer the ED metal mount. I would not trust a plastic mount, the G model, on a long lens.</p></blockquote><p></p>