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Hi I'm new to this forum and fairly new to photography. Im doing a 1 year course at my local college. Anyway I have a Nikon d70s and decided rather than upgrading my body I should invest in some new lenses. I have the standard 70mm kit lens that came with it, I also have a 50mm 1.8 which I love for portrait photography. However i'm off to NZ for a year and feel I need to invest in a good wide angle. Now I realise that I also need some zoom but just not sure if I should get a lens that covers everything or get separate lenses. I've had a look at a 10-20mm lens which is awesome. Then I've also seen an 18-300 and I think an 18-105 but cant remember. So my question is do I go for the 10-20 and get a separate zoom lens or do I get one that covers everything? I don't want to be changing lenses all the time but I don't wanna be compromising on quality. I love the 10-20 I tried. My budget is about £500

Any advice would be helpful. Thanks
 
The 18-70 kit lens is superb and will, I'm sure outperform a superzoom so I'd keep it and if you need something shorter or longer as well so be it.
 
D70 kit lens was indeed the 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5....cracking little lens. far better made than the newer plastic-mounted kits lenses you get these days. Is also faster; newer lenses have 3.5-5.6 as the max aperture. Keep it and spend the money ona decent longer focal length zoom (70-300 VR is the one of choice). Or indeed the 10-20 ...Sigma do a decent one for around £400. Whatever you do, dont get an all in one lens.....I did and regretted it very quickly....sold it and bought the two in my sig.
 
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