zacksoccer wrote:
Have a chance to spend a day in NYC in the middle of September. Want to do some basic street photos, plus some iconic images such as Rose Reading Room, Oculus, etc. but mainly street scenes. What do you advise for a lens? Am considering the following, all Nikon: 28-300, 17-35, 70-200 and a Sigma ART 50mm 1.4 prime. Can be mounted to a D500 or D750. Thoughts? Thanks in advance for your input.
For starters, what camera are you going to use? A D-500 is a DX (cf) and a D-750 is a FX (ff), the lenses give different perspectives on each format and thus have possibly different uses. Like most TRADITIONAL street photographers I'd pick a fast 24mm, 28mm, 35mm, 50mm prime and be done with it. Most of those lenses are small enough no one would pay attention to you nor ask you to leave their property for "being" a non-fee-paying professional. Toting anything longer than about 4" as a lens will gather some notice. A whopping 300mm might give you candids but also other issues. A good digital P&S might be a good alternative.