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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hrstrat57" data-source="post: 338675" data-attributes="member: 27586">Just wobbling further I took my top nick A700 out in the yard for a little shoot. What a great camera! I have still such an impressive kit of lenses all very desirable in the A mount world. The difference is auto focus....the AF on the Nikon D300 is truly magical, Nikon nailed it with this technology....the speed and accuracy of the Nikon focusing is intoxicating.....and the pro layout to control it all is superior. Since the D700 has all the same tech I expect more of the same. As I said a few weeks ago and had forgotten due to all the doubters here in this thread the amount of hits vs. misses I got with the D300 (without even truly understanding the AF) was astounding. Now I have come to master it a wee bit.Me thinks the quest must go on the AF is just too good! If I had just bought an A900 I would probably be happy but now that I have handled a pro level Nikon rig with all the AF tech and controls on board it is hard to turn back....I am old school, shooting since the 60's....aside from a brief "spray and pray " period when I first got the motor driven F2's (expensive blowing through all that film!) you need to understand I like keepers. The Nikon AF just delivers more keepers. The quality of the image from my existing kit is equal, in fact some of my lenses that I still have produce magic.....Spray and pray is not for me, I like keepers!Quest continues!</blockquote>