Replacement for my kit lens
A couple of examples
Why so serious?
effron wrote: I wish I could find the site, but alas no. A few years ago I stumbled upon a Russian's website of some of the most stunning landscape photography I have yet to see, all shot with an 18-200 on a D40. A lens can make some difference, but the biggest factor is the operator (photographer), of course. Don't anguish, pick a lens that fits your eye and budget and shoot everything...... except brick walls! (I sold my DX cams but kept my 16-85 Nikon, which is maybe the best I ever owned in its class).....
Thanks for also recommending the 18-200mm I will check this out very soon.
thanks for all your comments
Screamin Scott wrote: Some really super nice captures Randy....it's important to note that you use a good & proper technique for your captures.... I see many
"photographers" whose techniques leave much to be desired & crappy images would be the case no matter what lens they used... I'd be willing to bet that those that put the 18-200mm lens down, did so because of no fault of the lens...
And that is usually really the case. As an example the old 80-400 VR AF version. I have that lens and love it, and have heard people disparage that lens for years. Whenever I asked how long they used it, the answer was a very short time. There have been in all of my time a couple of lenses that were just plain junk no matter what you did with them. The rest that many complained about were used outside of their sweet spots, or people where using bad technique.
Come to think of that most of the bad lenses could get sharp images, but the chroma or distortion was always the problem. I did have problems with the one Sigma 50mm, in that it would never produce a good image. Fact is I just thought it was a bad copy that got off the line, and B&H exchanged them two more times, but all three were bad. It seems that they had a bad run of elements, because many other people had the same problem. I decided that the third time was the charm, and got the Nikon 50 instead. Since then I guess Sigma has really brought their QC up a lot since then.
Shoot, learn and share. It will make you a better photographer.
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