Tah-kwah-meh-non is how we always pronounced it. I used to live not far from it. It's also spectacular in the winter with lots of colours in the ice.

I just bought a Promaster SP532. It's plenty tall enough for me (I'm 6'2") and has a really nice ball head with tension and lock options I haven't seen on other heads...and two levels - one on the tripod, one at the QR. Here's the link: http://promaster.com/Product/8139

I love my 18-300 f3.5-6.3. It's light, versatile, and small. On my D7200, I've turned on the lens distortion and vignetting controls and am amazed at the photos I'm getting now compared to my old Canon T3i with a Tamron 16-300. The low light capability and high ISO capacity of the D7200 are amazing!

Wow. That is impressive. Thanks for mentioning it; I hadn't yet found that slider.

BBF = back button focus

I have the Nikon 18-300 f3.5-6.3 and would recommend it because the d7200 has built-in correction for lens distortion (barrel and pincushion)
and vignetting. I find that cuts out a couple of steps in PP.

We drove past there last summer on our way to the Very Large Array (radiotelescopes). Unfortunately, there was a lot of smoke in the air, so I wasn't able to get a good photo. It was good enough, though, for Google Images to easily identify it! 😃

I'd go for #2 and #4.

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I recently bought a D7200 with the 18-300 f3.5-6.3 and am very pleased with it. The D7200 menus allow you to correct for lens distortion in-camera, so you don't have to do that in PP. I find that the combo works well even in relatively low light.

I just bought the D7200 and love it. It performs well in low light. I didn't buy it in a kit, but bought the 18-300mm f3.5-6.3 instead of the kit lenses (what can I say, I prefer the convenience of a single lens). I don't think you could go wrong with that deal. For the package, that sounds like a great price.

I had the Tamron 16-300mm on my Canon T3i and loved it for most all the photography I do. Lightroom has a profile for the lens that cleans up the distortion pretty well.

I recently decided to upgrade to a camera that does much better with low light and bought a Nikon D7200 and a Nikon 18-300mm f3.5-6.3 and am very happy with it. I've found that some reviewers preferred the f3.5-5.6, but others indicated that the newer lens (3.5-6.3) is better optically. I'm very happy with the combo I bought. The D7200 does a fantastic job of correcting the optics (vignetting and lens distortion) for the Nikon 18-300 right in the camera, so I no longer have to mess with lens profiles in Lightroom.

Hmm...I read a couple of reviews of the f/3.5-6.3 before I bought it to go with my D7200...and they rated it as better than the 3.5-5.6. I'm very pleased with the quality. I also set the D7200 to correct for lens distortion and to correct for vignetting. I'm loving the combination. I guess Dan and I will go on having fun with the lens...it certainly is a lot lighter and less hassle than lugging around several primes. To each their own!