walk around lens
May 31, 2014 22:20:51 #
anyone know of a good walk around lens for a nikon d3100.i shoot just about anything.my 18-55 kit lens just dont cut it anymore.
May 31, 2014 22:27:56 #
I use the Tamron 18-270mm on mine and am happy with the results.
Pete
Pete
May 31, 2014 22:42:08 #
Michael O'
Loc: Midwest right now
skull head wrote:
anyone know of a good walk around lens for a nikon d3100.i shoot just about anything.my 18-55 kit lens just dont cut it anymore.
This won't do you much good, but I can't resist telling of my alltime favorite. Rollieflex 3.5. Really inconspicuous and so simple to use, and no one suspected as you looked down at the viewing screen on top that you were preparing to shoot them. And superlative quality negatives -- couldn't tell the blowups from my blow-ups from my 4x5 Linhof Technika. Too bad film is basically gone.
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May 31, 2014 22:52:38 #
My 28-300 is stuck on my camera.:):) Nice all around for me.
Erv
Erv
skull head wrote:
anyone know of a good walk around lens for a nikon d3100.i shoot just about anything.my 18-55 kit lens just dont cut it anymore.
May 31, 2014 22:57:11 #
May 31, 2014 22:57:48 #
skull head wrote:
anyone know of a good walk around lens for a nikon d3100.i shoot just about anything.my 18-55 kit lens just dont cut it anymore.
To properly narrow down the lens options, you must first ask yourself what kind of zoom range you most likely would want as well as how heavy the lens can be and still remain practical for your "walk-arounds". A long, heavy lens can get tiresome after a while if you climb a lot of steep hills.
May 31, 2014 23:00:17 #
I used a 16-85 on my D200 and it worked just fine. Sometimes I wished that I had more reach but wasn't willing to accept the compromises that come with too wide a range. I now use the equivalent 24-120 on my D700 and D800.
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May 31, 2014 23:45:38 #
Jun 1, 2014 06:06:37 #
mcveed wrote:
I used a 16-85 on my D200 and it worked just fine. Sometimes I wished that I had more reach but wasn't willing to accept the compromises that come with too wide a range. I now use the equivalent 24-120 on my D700 and D800.
Interesting. I still have my Nikon D200, which I bought shortly after it came out (2006, maybe?), and I bought a Nikon 18-200 mm in December 2006. That 18-200 mm might as well be welded on the camera body, because I almost never take it off. This is my walking around rig.
Jun 1, 2014 06:28:41 #
dooragdragon wrote:
I use the Tamron 18-270mm on mine and am happy with the results.
Pete
Pete
Ditto!
Jun 1, 2014 06:56:29 #
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Jun 1, 2014 07:06:28 #
skull head wrote:
anyone know of a good walk around lens for a nikon d3100.i shoot just about anything.my 18-55 kit lens just dont cut it anymore.
tamron 18-270
Jun 1, 2014 07:19:22 #
I also use the Nikon 16-85mm. It's very sharp, well built, and has about half the distortion of Nikon's superzoom lenses like the 18-140, 18-200, and 18-300. I stay away from superzoom lenses because all that I have used or read test reviews about have a lot of barrel distortion at wide angle settings and a lot of pincushion distortion at long focal lengths. The engineers have to compromise too much in the optical design in order to achieve the long zoom range.
Jun 1, 2014 07:37:25 #
Jun 1, 2014 07:52:17 #
Erv wrote:
My 28-300 is stuck on my camera.:):) Nice all around for me.
Erv
Erv
Have you tried heating it with a propane torch? I heard that might loosen it. :D
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