Hi, this is Lee from Thusius Photographer. Since I had them both in hand, I wanted to take a chance to show you the two 7200 lenses that kind of are in the same price range from Nikon or just on the Nikon side for Thusius photographers that both cost kind of around the same money But first one I'll show you is the brand new 7200 F4 It's 1399 list and it's an incredible lens. It's really sharp Really nice and light is was my big thing. I had the much older 80 to 200 F2.8 Which gives up a stop a light and for a stop a light that basically means I can You know cut my shutter speed or double my shutter speed or cut my ISO in half So a stop a light between a F28 and an F4 is a big deal, but for me the fact that this only weighs 1.87 pounds or about 8.85 kilograms was a big deal It really chopped a lot of weight off my bag and make sure this came with me So the other thing that's kind of that same price range you see them used for around $1,500 is the older 70 to 200 F2.8 VR1 So one thing you're gonna notice obviously it's bigger This is the one more stop a light You know versus this but 3.2 pounds or almost a kilogram and a half 1.45 kilograms It's also 8.5 inches versus 7 here. So you're really talking on a much more substantial lens You've got the foot, but the nice thing about it is the foot design is removable So you can just kind of do with that which is kind of handy but You know even still this is a pretty beachy lens. It's great. It's sharp But I would tell you yeah, they both have VR You know this is gonna give you probably an additional stop over this for handholding with the VR3 that's here But you know for me the main thing was weight you know this at 3.2 pounds or my other ones was slightly heavier than that The newer VR2 is even heavier than that. It's 3.4 pounds And almost well well over a kilogram and a half so big weight difference between the two eight lenses and the F4 And that was the big deal for me Couple other things so this you'll see these around $1,500 used maybe a little less sometimes as low as maybe 1,300 bucks You know where this is $1,399 list one thing you do note no tripod mount here You have to buy a collar and a foot and those are a hundred to two hundred dollars from RS Nikon does sell one And Kirk makes one as well So you kind of have to factor that in a little bit if you don't shoot off a tripod you save the money But the other thing I'll kind of call out this takes 77 millimeter filters Which is consistent with the 24 to 70 in the order 2875 pro lenses a lot of the like the 85 1 4 prime take 77 millimeter filters where this takes 67 which is the same as my 1.8 85 millimeter lens and my Tamron 28 75 zoom so more the consumer grade if you will the high-end consumer grade lenses on 67 the pros on 77 the good news is if you standardize on one size you can kind of commonize Or you I buy a step-up ring and use a lot of my filter my 77 millimeter filters on this with no problems at all So that's just kind of the quick comparison I mean if you the other thing I'll kind of call it as the newer version of this the VR 2 is a thousand dollars more than this list 2399 you see them for 18 19 hundred dollars used the one thing I will say is you know adding a couple hundred bucks for a tripod mount here versus the VR 2 which obviously comes with one you maybe want to think about You know whether you need that extra stop a light and you can manage the weight because The newer 7200 f 2.8 is almost double the weight of this guy and like I said for me that what that found was I wound up Leaving my my 7200 or 80 200 at home because it was just so heavy in my bag So this goes along fine it carries fine. It's really light And I love it a lot and it's extremely sharp the testing is come out great on this thing So I would just tell you if you're an enthusiast photographer probably unless you're shooting sports or lots of indoor low light stuff This is a great lens for you Come to my blog enthusiastrotographer.com Or on Facebook or following in through photo at Twitter. Thanks