Thermal cut out means you need some spare SB900s in your pouch. Swap em out and let them rest a bit. Dont risk burning the fresnel lens or the discharge tube.

In my opinion, buying 3rd party flash is a waste of money. After awhile you will want a real Nikon and have to sell the 3rd party at a huge loss. Might as well suck it down and get a real Nikon first time round.

How did you use the SB900 till it overheats? Granted I dont have an SB900, but I use SB800s with 5 batts a lot, and have never, ever gotten it to overheat in the past 4 years...

Usually only wides have petal hoods as the lens needs to see more out the far edges. For normal and teles the angle of view is very narrow, thus a full hood will do.

Hate the fact that the 35/1.4 doesn't have a 77mm filter. WTF was Nikon thinking? If you step up to 77mm then the hood doesn't mount. Idiots.

I'm having the 24/1.4 and loving it. Won't be getting the 35mm cos of the stupid filter size. When I need 35mm I'll put it on a DX camera.

All the good lenses... 24-70, 24-120, 17-35, 28-300, 16-35, 80-200, 70-200, 84/1.4 have 77mm filter size. Only the 35mm is the odd one out.

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Added on November 17, 2010, 7:39 pmIts about buying and maintaining only one set of filters. When you buy a RM6k lens u dont really care if the filter is RM100 or 200 or 300...

And old timers with a collection of lenses dont like to buy all their filters again just for one lens. A lens is just one component of an entire system, so all parts must play nice.

This post has been edited by adriancs: Nov 17 2010, 07:39 PM

With the filter adapter you cant put the hood on. I can't count how many times I bang my lens and the hood takes the cake instead of my lens...

I have the 24/1.4 when you gonna come rob me???