It could also be that he got the F5 with a consumer grade zoom, or worse yet a G lens. Nikon's consumer grade zooms range from ok to poor and the G in G lens stands for garbage.
> also confided that he had recently inherited his late father-in-law's > K1000 and 50mm lens and, in lowered tones, was surprised that > he could > get better pictures with it than with his new F5. Go figure. > BUTCH "Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself" Hermann Hesse (Demian)

