17 to 35 MM Zoom. (around $1,330.00) > 35 to 70 MM Zoom. (around $1,380.00) > 80 to 400 MM Zoom (around $1,430.00) People who buy the 80-400 VR get a discount for a year at your local mental hospital. Just have some shop show the new 80-200 2.8 and the 80-400 VR to you and you'll see the difference in quality right away. Waste of money...a weird attempt to match the 80-200 (?) and 100-300 VR type of lenses that Canon is doing quite well with. Go for what Alpha told you, but IF you can afford it and if you know you'll be able to get everything out of them, go for the 2.8 ED series, like the 17-35 and 28-80 2.8 ED, or replace the first one with the older 20 2.8 That'll get everything out of a good Nikon body. :)