phit4life wrote:
My D7100 came with a Nikon 18-140. It's not a tremendous amount of reach but boy I love it. It's on my camera most of the time.
I have a 50mm prime too.
My parents also gave me a Tamron 12-24 and a Nikon 55-300.
I don't use those lenses too often unless I'm going for something specific.
Thanks for the report. I'm going to be sharing all of the comments with her, and let her decide what she's going to be most comfortable with. I value your opinion. (I started shooting in the 60's when primes were called "lenses," and zooms were called something rather impolite. I'm glad things are changing!)
Thanks to ALL of you who have responded to my question. I just realized how much forum space I was taking to send thanks to each of you, so I'll switch to PM for further thanks. I'll reply on the forum if I have a question or a comment that furthers our discussion and might help others learn from your responses, too. Again, many thanks! (Sorry for my lack of good forum etiquette.)
Jim
MW wrote:
Your own photo preferences play a role. I once used Lightrooms library features to sort out which focal lengths I used the most and the likelihood of keepers. I turned out that 18-100mm would cover 80-90% of what I did. Having 200 or 300mm available felt good but looking at it objectively said otherwise. The outcome was that a 18-105mm went on my D7100 and rarely came off. The point here is not to advocate 18-105mm but to urge some introspection regarding want vs need.
PS: I know of one person whose "walk around" is a 10-24mm because that's the kind of photos he liked
PPS: I have book by a noted landscape/travel photographer and from the examples published it appears that he does nearly everthing with a 70-200mm.
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You're the first photographer I've known who formally quantified lens usage like that. It's really enlightening, and makes me wonder what I'd discover about my own shooting if I pulled the data like you did. Excellent approach to consider! Thanks for sharing!
Jim
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