Absolutely. Horses for courses, etc. (I mostly shoot things which don't act like that; architecture and landscapes, mostly.) I bet a lot of sports photographer

Absolutely. Horses for courses, etc. (I mostly shoot things which don't act like that; architecture and landscapes, mostly.) I bet a lot of sports photographers, too, were quite relieved when they could offload their F5s for something digital. (The F5 being a beast, by the way - if memory serves, you could get 8 or even 9 fps out of it. A friggin' FILM camera. As if that wasn't enough, Nikon would be happy to sell you multiple F5s (each with its dedicated lens, of course) and an expensive thingamajig which let them shoot synchronously, but with an offset so that you'd get [n] times 8fps - though at a staggering cost.) I love my F5. Closest I'll ever come to wielding a gatling gun.