They do. Just because you can't afford to buy or hire one, or aren't employed by someone who can provide you one to work with, gear like this shouldn't exist?
Why the hostility to Nikon? It's absolutely pathetic, i'm a Canon shooter because i've bought into the system massively and see absolutely no reason to change, but they aren't football teams. I've...
You aren't compelled to own a copy Robert, just hire one when you need to use one, or just get on with life and wait for the price to mellow. You seem very angry about this.
The problem is, is if you are shooting for television you have to stay on a 50 frame rate rendering everything else at the mercy of the aperture, given you can't really play with the ISO to much.
Oh god this. Virtually all of us spend half our lives sharing lenses at a moments notice to our mates, what a way to miss shots fumbling in passwords as we exchange glass.