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Morning troops, I'm currently looking at some new lenses for my nikon d200, I've got a nikon 50mm 1.18 prime which I adore and then I've got the standard 18-55 kit lens plus the Nikon 55-200 zoom which I tend to never take out. Anyway, thinking of canning the standard and zoom and investing in 18-105mm as well as the sigma 10-20 wide angle. I prefer portrait and landscape type photography so would these be good investments? I also want to move in to macro so looking at the Nikon 105 macro lens - would this be good for the wish list?
 
Hello to a fellow D200 user.

FWIW, I've got a Nikon 18-70mm that I've used frequently (until I purchased a 28-70 2.8) and got great results from that, although I did miss a slightly longer zoom so the 18-105mm would cover that and, if you're not going to be shooting much in low light, would also make a very good portrait lens too.
 
18-70mm... probably the best kit lens seen on a DSLR. Outstanding optical quality for such a cheap lens.

17-50mm Tamrom is a great lens optically but you might find it a tad short at the long end for portraiture, maybe.

What's your budget?
 
Was hoping to buy the 3 for about 1k, I'm guessing these are likely to be sigma rather than nikon but hoping to get the sigma 10-20 wide angle maybe the 18-70/18-105 and then a macro but the immediate focus is the first 2???
 
Should've said expecting some of these to be 2nd hand to fit budget, or could I get new?
 
I'd sell all for your lenses for £200 giving you a budget of £1200.

For that you could get a sigma 10-20 (£250), 35mm (£120), sigma 105mm (£220), sigma 70-200mm OS (£600).

Now you have a great ultra wide angle, a more versatile fast normal lens, a good macro and a stabilised fast telephoto.
 
Like that idea, Phil. It's all starting to spin me out as reading loads of different reviews relating to the nikon 16-85 and the 18-70, ruled out the 18-105, and I'm proper confused. I want a nice WA lens and a decent "most of the time" lens and the macro to follow.. :shrug::bonk:
 
FWIW I'd go for a 24-85 over the 16-85 purely for the fact that it would start to set you up for FF if you went down that route. Then, your 10-20mm would be your WA lens.
 
TangoSierra said:
Like that idea, Phil. It's all starting to spin me out as reading loads of different reviews relating to the nikon 16-85 and the 18-70, ruled out the 18-105, and I'm proper confused. I want a nice WA lens and a decent "most of the time" lens and the macro to follow.. :shrug::bonk:
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I think the 35mm is the most of the time lens.

Decent wide zoom, decent tele zoom, the rest can be a normal prime.

I always have a problem understanding why people spend £400+ on the 16-85mm...the slowness of the aperture make it little more than a good kit lens. I know people harp on about how good it is... but all the kit lenses are great anyway, for me to spend that money on that range, it would have to be constant f4.

If you can get a setup that consists of all fast lenses (bar your wide) then you'll really appreciate it - especially on your D200 which doesn't have great ISO performance.
 
Cheers Phil, any idea where I can pick up 35mm for c£120? Thanks everyone for input.
 
Hi all, Try mpbphotographic.co.ok
 
Just to add, although not Nikon glass, I love my 105mm Sigma. Just my penny's worth!
 
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