So recently I decided to go absolutely hogshit on my poor, battered bank account and bought a Nikon D800. Last Friday it finally arrived in the mail after a few months of backordered waiting and I had to take an afternoon work break to rattle off a few shots.

I slapped on a nice 50mm prime, which — forum elitists aside — is my favorite walkabout lens. I have trouble justifying spending nearly $2,000 on Nikon’s best pro 24-70mm zoom when a much lighter, smaller, faster, and just as sharp prime clocks in at about a tenth of that.

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