Opinions on lens choices

[Brazo]

i currently own a gripped Nikon D600 with a 24-120 and the 50 and 85 1.8 primes. 1.8 is more than wide enough for my needs.

My favoured range is 24-200 to shoot landscape, architecture and family portraits/snaps. I bought the 24-120 for a family holiday and it performed admirably but I ‘much’ prefer the output from my primes and would be happy to sell this lens on.

Obviously I have a gap at the long end especially as the 24-120 isn’t so great as the focal length increases.

I also consider there is a quality gap at the wide end and have been deliberating endlessly over the Nikon 20/24/28 primes.

I have about £1k to play with plus any extra from selling my current lenses. I would like to only consider oem Nikon lenses rather than 3rd party and second hand is fine.

(TLDR) So opinions on how best to cover the 24-200 focal range with a penchant for primes.

 

[rjbell]

28mm is my favorite focal length. It feels most natural to me. Perhaps its because I still take more photos with my phone than anything else as its always on me and they're usually 28mm.

 

[PaulButler]

If you are happy that 24mm is wide enough then get the 24mm f1.8, you may feel you need something between the 24 & 50 in which case the 35mm f1.8 is good. Another way is to get the 28mm f1.8 and Robert says above, then more to spend on longer lenses but you may find it isn't wide enough. As for longer you will to use older lenses to stay in budget but the above two lenses will already be pushing that. The 180 AFD is nice enough, the 200mm f4 macro focusses too slow imo and is only useful as a macro lens imo. then there are the 105 and 135 DC f2 lenses - but your budget is blown Any of the 105 macros work well enough but only the afs focuses anything near quickly and it is the most expensive. The 200mm f2 vr is truly fantastic but also very expensive (and heavy).