leftj Loc: Texas

Not appropriate. The task at hand is something specific. Walk around is not specific. It is variable. So your response was dumb and meaningless and a poor attempt at being a smartass.

RogerO

I use the DX18-200mm 1:3.5-5.6 GII ED with VR on the D7100. Its range covers most situations and the price is good.

twillsol Loc: St. Louis, MO

24-120 f4 , great walk-around lens, on my D500 or D800

DaveHam Loc: Reading UK

To walk around what, where? Indoors? Outdoors? There is no one lens fits all purposes.

Bear2 Loc: Southeast,, MI

Nikkor 18-200 VR ll, was on my D7000 for a year or so. Now it is on my D7200.
Great lens.

Duane

starlifter Loc: Towson, MD

Hi. Some of the people on this site seem to be lacking in social skills, so you never know what kind of answers you'll get. I think its a perfectly simple question. After all a " walking" around lens is just that a walking around lens that you hope will cover most photo oportunties you might encounter in a normal day. I have a d7200 and I use a Nikko 18 to 200 that works put nicely while I leave the 150-600 in the car just in case.

DaveyDitzer Loc: Western PA

I have used my Nikon 16-80 f2.8/4 for several months on my D5300 and I like the results so far - Except the factory supplied lens hood vignettes at 16mm.

mikewskier Loc: NE Florida

I use a Tamron 16-300 VR DX. It serves well and resolves the issues others have brought up regarding what you shoot. It focuses well and with my D7000 the max aperture has not been a problem.
I have other lenses for special conditions.

BBurkett

Thanks to all for all the comments! Very much appreciated! Number of responses is great!

I think I need to clarify:

I am looking for other choices (Nikon or even perhaps non-Nikon) for a lens in the 16-85 zoom range as that is what works best for me most of the time.
I have an 80-200 f2.8 Nikon that fills in the top end of what I want.

PS - legs are not necessary on a walk-around lens for me as I have 2 good ones!

Thanks again!

prossiter Loc: Newfoundland. Canada

My favorite is the 18-200 3.5-5.6 DX.

dcampbell52 Loc: Clearwater Fl

I think part of the problem here is that a "walk around" lens means different things to different photographers depending on what they shoot. If I am out "birding" my walk around lens is an 80-400mm lens (heavy but is a full fame lens that gives good results on both ff and crop sensor cameras. But since I am "birding", I probably don't need wide to short telephoto shots. If I am shooting seascapes, sunsets or general landscape, I probably will have the 10-24mm in my pocket, an 18-70mm on the crop sensor camera or a 50mm f/1.4 on the D610. If I am shooting buildings, people or general stuff I probably would have the 18-70 and the 70-300 or maybe the 80-400 (but it is a little obtrusive for walking the streets and too slow and too long for inside buildings without supporting light. Like everything else in photography, the "walkaround" lens is a matter of choice and probable subjects. I don't rely on one "all inclusive" lens like the 18-300 or 28-300mm lenses because, while the lenses are excellent for outside photography, they tend to be a little slow once you move indoors. I probably would throw my 50mm into a pocket because it is light, fairly small and has great low light ability (f/1.4) and is still fast enough in the mid aperture f/8 for good indoor shooting.

MtnMan Loc: ID

I like the Sigma 17-50 on my D5300.

24-80 on my D800. But the D800 doesn't get far from my pickup due to weight.

Both have VR, which I consider essential as walkaround sometimes involves indoors.

leftj Loc: Texas

So there you have it. The 50mm is probably the best walk around lens. All of the other situations you describe are specific needs situations.

digit-up Loc: Flushing, Michigan

And yet so condescending and judgmental. Who Da hell are you to say.....much of anything?? RJM.

KathyCaruthers

I asked that same question to the Senior Photographer on Carnival cruise line and he suggested Nikon 18-200. I got it and love it! No more constant switching lenses.