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realspeed wrote:

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Ok with that out the way before going on any shoot think of the distance your going to work at, for portrait I tend to use my Nikon 50mm f1.4 mm G lens
walkabout = 24-120mm
distance 70-300mm VR+1.4 Tele Converter if necessary
fast moving subject 24-70mm or 70-200mm or 12 -24 mm f2.8 lenses
macro Tamron 90 mm lens
Camera Nikon D300 with battery grip for up to 7/8 frames a second and better balance.

I see you like your fast lens!
Nikon 50mm 1.4 spot on. Why some snobs didn't like the G type I don't understand. Who uses the aperture ring anyway?
I bagged a secondhand AF-S 24-85G ED and use it on my D90. Love it, some distortion but Capture NX2 sorts it.
Love my very old 70-210D, bit short on contrast but very sharp. Needs a little Capture help!

D300  Another member of the failed FL2 clutch/DMF club, twice.

Practical Photographer recently rated the Sigma 18-200 lense as the best buy budget lens of it's size. It doesn't have the quality of the Nikor equivilent, but cost less than half as much. There was apparently a little arboration (sp..?), at the extremes, but generally a good piece of kit.

Guess what I'm saving for now......

I went the other way and bought a Nikon AF-S 12-24mm lens  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

npinks wrote:

I went the other way and bought a Nikon AF-S 12-24mm lens

Then you'll simply have to stand closer to the subject....

a lot closer  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

I just have the standard 18-55 kit lens on my EOS550D and then I've got a Canon EF 50 mm f/1.8 II prime lens which is a cracker for portrait/group shots.

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I'm contemplating a prime lens, thinking Nikon 35mm Af-s F1.8 Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

npinks wrote:

I'm contemplating a prime lens, thinking Nikon 35mm Af-s F1.8

I have the 50mm prime which was fast enough for me to take decent photos indoors without the flash. Sometimes I do think it just needs to be that wider on a few occasions where I couldn't step back anymore so the 35mm would have been ideal.

I'm waiting to get a 55-300mm next to complement my kit 18-55mm and also one day I'll treat myself to the 10-24mm  11 SD4 HSE Stornoway Grey / Black Windsor Leather

gone ahead and bought the 35mm Prime f/1.8, should arrive on Thursday

I now officially blame Taz and Pegleg for this expensive hobby  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

You can't blame me
I'm not the one spending your cash

Seriously, i've never found it expensive. When i went from film to digital, yes i bought a brand new body. But only cos i was concerned about dust. I've never bought a new lens; always secondhand and i never bother with image stabilsation.
I knew a bloke who bought an old Practika with no light meter for 3 quid, but he understood the colleration between ISO/ASA, shutter and f.stop. Think I paid 5 quid for mine and still got it.
He took some amazing shots with just one 50mm lens.
We are talking a long time ago, but even at just 14 years old, i managed to scrape 5 quid together. I used to buy stuff cheap that wasn't working and fix it.

Therefore, I come to the conclusion that most important bit of kit for photography is the person with their finger on the shutter button  Another member of the failed FL2 clutch/DMF club, twice.

Nick,
The below are barrel distortion correction that you can plug into PS lens correction for the 35mm AFS f.18 lens.

∞ tbd
30' (10m)
10' (3m) +2.0
3' (1m) +2.5
1' (0.3m) +3.0

I got them from here http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/35mm-f18.htm

If you use Nikon Capture NX2, all Nikon lens correction values are plugged in  Another member of the failed FL2 clutch/DMF club, twice.

Pegleg wrote:

I used to buy stuff cheap that wasn't working and fix it.

now you buy expensive LR's and fix them  At work
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Pegleg wrote:

Nick,
The below are barrel distortion correction that you can plug into PS lens correction for the 35mm AFS f.18 lens.

∞ tbd
30' (10m)
10' (3m) +2.0
3' (1m) +2.5
1' (0.3m) +3.0

I got them from here http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/35mm-f18.htm

If you use Nikon Capture NX2, all Nikon lens correction values are plugged in

They are in CS5 too  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

New lens arrived and tested, very happy, loving the f1.8


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