Bukitimah, I would have been out $2000 for a fantastic Nikon 1.4 lens. I kept renting it (about 3 times, a week or 10 days at a time) and could just not justify spending that amount of money. I have other fast lenses, so I began using them more often and realized I could do without that lens. Besides, we're always saying that equipment does not the photographer make, so I really needed to live by that. Oddly enough, my most favorite lenses right now are the 35mm DX 1.8 and the Sigma 10-20 mm 3.5 -- each of them cost less than $500 each.