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It depends on what you mean by "portrait," too. If you're thinking of tight head & shoulders shots, you want a relatively long focal length. For waist-up, two-thirds, full body, or small groups, a...

FWIW my kit is very similar to yours. The only difference is that I have a 35mm f/1.8 DX as well (and I got the 35mm before my 50mm). So naturally I'd recommend getting the 35mm :) except that you...

I'd suggest including speedlights (or possibly flashes of all types, including studio strobes) as a category in the "Gear" List section of user profiles.

How are you using your current lenses? In my case, I have a D90, 18-105mm kit lens, and a couple of cheap primes: 35mm f/1.8G DX and 50mm f/1.8D. I generally use the zoom stopped down with flash...

Which camera do you have? I'm guessing that it's one of the DX cameras, rather than a D600 or higher-priced model. If you are worrying about perspective distortion (aka "big nose, small ears")...

My tin-foil-hat theory is that the "D5300" is a decoy, a blind. That Nikon is really annoyed at NR, and is absolutely determined to avoid leaks. So Nikon is feeding NR (and others) rumors about a...

Despite being a happy Nikon owner myself, I would not rule out Canon in this case. My advice (free, and almost worth it) would be to tell your neighbor to go down to the local Best Buy and try...

Mine would be a 70mm f/1.8 DX - a 105mm full-frame equivalent "portrait" prime. Although I wouldn't cry if it came out as an FX lens instead of DX. (Request for information: Is 70mm a focal length...

The D600 holds no temptation for me, but the D800... That's more camera than I could usefully use, for much more money than I really ought to spend (especially since I'll have to get new lenses, a...

Better sharpness than the 18-200 is damning with faint praise. What I want to know is how the 18-140 compares to the 18-105, especially on a 24 MP body.

My 2 cents would be to get a prime. Figure out which focal lengths you use the most with your current lenses - especially in cases where you want a wider aperture - and get the prime that best...

One problem with a 32MP D400 would be finding good lenses to use with it. This is already an issue with the current 24MP DX cameras, and a 32MP DX sensor would make the problem worse.

In my own case, going to full frame would mean spending a lot of money for improvements that don't matter so much to me - better high ISO (nice, but not critical) and better wide angle (which I...

I'm not convinced. I still think that the 20-35mm f/2.8 is a proper comparison. Yes, it's harder to get 104º on an FX sensor than to get 73º on a DX sensor, but it's also harder to get 73º on a DX...

1. I'm not considering a hypothetical 24-70 f/1.8 lens, I'm considering a hypothetical 35-70 f/1.8 lens - and one that APS-C rather than FF, to boot.

2. By your logic here, the Sigma 18-35...

"Prime lenses for the FF format with focal length below 70mm can have very dissimilar design."

Yes. Exactly so. And the same applies to zoom lenses and to lenses designed for the APS-C format that...

@Frank_BR
In the 18mm to 70mm range, the general trend is so weak as to hardly be worth calling a trend at all. In fact, can you even name a single pair of Nikon F lenses of 70mm or shorter focal...

If the cost and weight of a lens increases with the third power of the focal length, then this implies that there ought to be a big pile of good, cheap wide-angle lenses - that instead of "Nifty...

This lens is not for me, not because I want a wide-ranging zoom, but because I want a long-ranging one. The 18-35mm range is just not one I use very much.

But if Sigma came out with a 35-70mm...

I have both the 35mm f/1.8 and the 50mm f/1.8D for my D90. In my experience, the 50mm is too long for some kinds of indoor shooting, but just right for others. (And similarly the 35mm is too wide...