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designboy
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Lens advice (again)
      22/07/2008 13:30

Hi - your wise words to get a 50mm 1.4 was great. Im very happy, but miss the zoom. So now I want to move into a zoom for doing portraits and bodyshots, I was about to splash out on the 18-200 nikon lens that is the all rounder holiday lens (seems to do the heap!) but its a f3.5 - 5.6 lens that puts me off as most things I do are indoors.

I then looked at the 70-200mm f2.8 from nikon (lovely) but too expensive at £1k-ish so I then found that tameron do a lens at £500-ish that is the same specs (minus VR). I was really wondering what would be better. I dont shoot full frame so the 18-200 lens is made for my camera, the others are made for 35mm cameras so will magnify up. Im just concerned that my sharpness will be blurry and I'll kick myself.

The question of all this is:
Which would you go for? the nikon 180-200 f3.5 or the tameron/sigma 70-200mm f2.8

I dont do wide angle at all, but having that seemed cool, I just want sharp shots - like anyone else!!

Thanks again,
this site has been great!

Chris

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* Lens advice (again) designboy 22/07/2008 13:30
. * * Re: Lens advice (again) alanS   22/07/2008 22:28
. * * Re: Lens advice (again) stenchbings   22/07/2008 22:36
. * * Re: Lens advice (again) designboy   22/07/2008 23:31
. * * Re: Lens advice (again) deddard   22/07/2008 13:41
. * * Re: Lens advice (again) FenModerator   22/07/2008 13:55
. * * Re: Lens advice (again) designboy   22/07/2008 16:43
. * * Re: Lens advice (again) El Sid   22/07/2008 17:40
. * * Re: Lens advice (again) Zou   22/07/2008 20:24

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