I need some advice. I pulled the GAS trigger today on a Nikon FF camera to replace my D7500. I'm not a pro. I shoot landscape, still life, and things that don't talk back. I have a full assortment of crop sensor lens, but no FF lens other than a 50mm/1.8. I bought a 24-85 f2.8-f4 Macro to go with the camera. If you had a limited budget, what lens would you get beyond the two I'll have? I enjoy milky way shots, light painting, macro stuff, flowers, waterfalls, and "artsey" stuff. Any suggestions are welcome. FWIW, I've have done two weddings (don't care for the pressure) and I've done a couple of office parties (free drinks). I don't mind manual focus lenses, used lenses, or refurbs if I can return if they've seen their useful life. Thanks for the help. I really do appreciate all the comments even they are a little painful.

Need an opinion regarding the purchase of a new D610. My local photo store has the Nikon D610 (from Nikon Canada) with 50 mm 1.8 lens and battery grip on for about $900 US, but only until tomorrow. I have a number of older Nikon AI and AF -D lenses from my film days. I currently have a Nikon D7200 with the 18 - 140 mm VR and 10 - 20 mm VR lenses - both DX. I would have gone FX with the D750 at the time, but it was a bit too high in price. The D610 came out in 2013, but at this price it is tempting.

[This is not a criticism of your work or it's quality, but just calling on my 28 years experience working for a large commercial printer, many of those years as the head of the Applied Research department that worked in image processing.] Apples and Oranges. You are basically asking a pool of observers to comment on the quality of a friend's photos. If they say no, they risk offending you. If they say yes, life it good for everyone. Duh! That is a much different experiment that putting prints made at different resolutions in front of trained observers and asking them to rank them in terms of quality.

I have a Nikon D200 - 10MP. I still use it if the environment might be a problem. The printed 10MP images it creates expand to 8x10 easily and look similar to the higher megapixel images @ 8x10 (same scene different camera). 11x14 is tops for 10MP though.

That being said, the actual resolution limits to 35mm film is around 20MP color and at the high end roughly 45MP B&W (with slow fine grain film). Roughly - your results will vary. For a long time I only saw that equivalent resolution in a 4x5 view camera with a high quality lens. I also saw resolution far beyond that with astronomical glass plates. My point here is that inexpensive ordinary film, especially B&W could capture more detail than digital could until digital hit the 20MP FF mark.