Enhanced...

I bought the Tamron 18-400 a few months ago and have been very happy with it. It's not perfect, but has a lot of bang for the buck. If there's a photography store near you, you can try renting it first... if you want. I do some research on it first just to make sure, but I believe you wouldn't be disappointed with it. The range on the lens is borderline stupid. Here are some examples:

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-488273-1.html Moonshot
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-486972-1.html
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-485342-1.html This shows the range of the lens.

Her is a him... I like him a lot mostly because he fights for veterans rights and benefits and his office expends itself out into the community with assistance and communication... Yup.. his bill is meeting some resistance...

Ami Bera from my district has introduced a bill to congress that lawmakers should not be paid when they can't come up with a budget on time until the problem is remedied.

Also, we must remember that if the opposite of PRO is CON that it stands to reason that the opposite of PROGRESS is CONGRESS...

Very Happy with mine and I'm the only person that needs to be happy with it...

Oops... I can see what you mean...

I have this lens since early October and am very happy with it. Yes it does have VC (left side of the lens next to the AF switch on my Nikon version) and it seems to work well. At 18 to 400 the reach is quite good for an all-around lens while yielding some decent pictures. The AF seems to work pretty fast and is accurate for my needs. They experts recommend to shoot in the mid-range of the aperture range. It's quality is good for its price range. I am using it on a Nikon D7500. It's not a professional lens, b ut does keep this hobbyist quite happy...

Here's some examples:

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-486972-1.html

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-485342-1.html ...this shows the range

The pic doesn't do it justice. It spoke to me of time, survival, and life itself. I plan to go back with the Nikon and do a few more shots to see what I can create with it... I'd like to be able to sit down with it and take down all of what it's seen over time...

I was a local park yesterday and saw this old tree that looked really nice so snapped a pic on my iPhone 6S Plus...

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Brown Santa is real... I Too Believe.... (UPS=Universal Package Santa)

My wife and I do that to each other every year.... Just tell them you need the camera to shoot the rest of Christmas and that you need to open that up first!!!

My interest in it would be while traveling I can download pics onto my iPad giving me a good, portable screen for viewing while on the road or generally away from home...

I tried using Snapbridge when I first got the camera and it was somewhat sporadic. I usually copy my pics onto the computer and then use Picasa to load into my iPad/iPhone. That has worked for me so I really haven't had much of a need for Snapbridge. I might mess around with it some after the holidays...

Personally... I never make the same mistake twice... I make it 5 or 6 times just to make sure it's a mistake.... That being said, for me a lot about photography has to do with the journey of taking good pictures. In that the final result has value. Even the mistakes have value... it's called the arc of the learning curve. Studying, working , and putting forth the effort is an important part of the process. Over the past few years my memory has started to fade a bit so it takes more effort and more mistakes to get it down. I haven't done much recently due to being so busy, but after the first of the year I'm going to start planning to budget my time to doing more. It's only through repetition that I'll gt it down. That includes utilizing all available and understandable resources....

I have the D7500 and am very pleased with it. It replaced my D5200 (which is now my back-up or secondary camera)... deja vu... My main lens is the Tamron 18-400 and together they work great. I'm sure you'll be happy with the camera...