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Hey guys and girls,

I´m about to buy a Nikon D200 house, and i need a good and not too expensive, used lense for it. I´m thinking a wide angle zoom lens, ranging from 18 - 35 mm, f/1.4 - 2.8, and in the range of 300 - 500 US$.

What would be the best buy?

The lense must be as sharp as possible, because I need to do an exhebition and print my pics in large sizes...

Thank you

Tommy
 
Suggest you post on the Nikon SLR lens talk forum.
Richard
 
Re> wide angle zoom lens, ranging from 18 - 35 mm, f/1.4 - 2.8, and in the range of 300 - 500 US$.

There is no lens even close to these specifications.

BAK
 
What's a D200 house? I thought it was a camera!
Jules
Desmond0007 said:
Hey guys and girls,

I´m about to buy a Nikon D200 house, and i need a good and not too expensive, used lense for it. I´m thinking a wide angle zoom lens, ranging from 18 - 35 mm, f/1.4 - 2.8, and in the range of 300 - 500 US$.

What would be the best buy?

The lense must be as sharp as possible, because I need to do an exhebition and print my pics in large sizes...

Thank you

Tommy
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Crickets have ears on their legs.
 
I don't know about the house, but you might try buying Nikon used manual lenses. They will be much cheaper. I still use the 105 AI lens on my D200 for headshots. It's superb.
 
You didn't mention what you are shooting. Makes a big difference as to what lenses are best suited for you. Are you shooting static scenes with a tripod -- lowl light handheld, or shooting moving objects. there are many older Nikon auto focus lenses you can get cheap--if you don't need fast glass.
Buzz
The software does all of the work---I just hit the keys!!!
 
Hey guys,

And thanks for all the respond.

I can see that i havent been specific enough, so i´ll try to be so.

You guys talk about 2.8, beeing the max f stop on a wide angle zoom, so i guss that a fixed wide angle, soothes my needs better. About 24 mm, not higher than that.

Regarding the exhebition, i´m just saying that i need to do large prints. 23 x 31 inches, maybe a bit larger.

I will mostly use the lense for concert shots, evening and night shots, and i never use flash.
Nikon D200 is the camera i´m gonna put it on.

I´m not wealthy, but really hoping to take my photography to the next level, with the D200, and the best lense i can get for my 500 bucks.
Thanks guys

Tommy
 
Hey Buzz,

I´m shooting in quite low light, no tripod, iso 50-100, people in motion, artificial light.

Thx

Tommy
 
Why in the world do you want a wide angle lens for concert photos?

And using ISO 50-100 makes no sense.

And somehow or other, you've invented a new print size, but that's probably why god invented paper cutters.

Any idea how you will get prints made, and where they will hang?

You either have a unique artistic vision, or you're without enough knowledge to even ask reasonable questions.

That earlier suggestion of a Tamron 17-50 is a good one. Or try a Sigma 18-50mm f2.8.
 
You are going to need more than a wide angle.. Full coverage shots get boring quickly. You need a a 70-210 2.8, and the cheapest around is at least $900. You can get away with a slower lens for daylight concerts , but not for indoor , or nighttime concerts. 70-210 4.5-5.6 nikon lenses can be purchased for $100-$200,but as stated-no good in low light .
Buzz

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Hey Bak,

I like to be close to things, thats why i go with a wide angle. It´s gonna be used for band photos as well. I use low iso, so i get as little noise as possible, hence a lense that works well in low light. I´m from Denmark, Scandinavia, and we have some different measurements i can tell. A0. Is that a size you know in the states?

I hope that answered your questions.

Thx
 
What about the Nikon 35/1.8G?

Only $200, sharp and it is a 1.8 so it will be useful in low light situations.
Desmond0007 said:
Hey guys and girls,

I´m about to buy a Nikon D200 house, and i need a good and not too expensive, used lense for it. I´m thinking a wide angle zoom lens, ranging from 18 - 35 mm, f/1.4 - 2.8, and in the range of 300 - 500 US$.

What would be the best buy?

The lense must be as sharp as possible, because I need to do an exhebition and print my pics in large sizes...

Thank you

Tommy
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Ok guys,

This was a bit harder than i expected, but a good challenge.

I´m getting more and more knowledge as we go. Thx to you all.

Would i have found out is:

1. I´m not changing the body (house). Nikon D200 is the camera that soothes my needs. I´m upgrading from a Olympus E10, so for my the D200 is a huge step forward. It´s fast, robust (i REALLY need a robust cam), it performs well, noise is OK, and it´s Nikon so even if you get some noise, the noise is more "analogue like", you can buy old Nikon lenses for it, and so on. Oh, and i can afford it.

2. The lense will be used for:

Concert shots
Group pictures
Documentary

3. A picture says more than a thousand words, so i´ll try to give you guys 4 examples, of where i´m going:

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=5802972&albumID=829646&imageID=4955446

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=5802972&albumID=829646&imageID=4955446#a=829646&i=5312774

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=5802972&albumID=829646&imageID=4955446#a=829646&i=4946987

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=5802972&albumID=829646&imageID=4955446#a=829646&i=4954635

The first picture with the old man, is really where i want to go. I like the mystiqe you can get from a wide angle. Peoples faces getting stretched and deform.

So guess i need 20 mm or something. maybe lower?

Thx

Tommy
 
OK

last suggestion

Tokina 12-24 f4. quite sharp, great build quality and the lowest cost option of all the wide zooms. Look for a version 1 rather that uses a screw drive AF than a version 2 that has a motor in the lens as it should be cheaper and it still focuses really fast. Lenses that short will allow slowish shutter speeds and still hand held.

Tokina 11-16 2.8 is faster, really sharp but it is more like a wide prime than a zoom.
Desmond0007 said:
Ok guys,

This was a bit harder than i expected, but a good challenge.

I´m getting more and more knowledge as we go. Thx to you all.

Would i have found out is:

1. I´m not changing the body (house). Nikon D200 is the camera that soothes my needs. I´m upgrading from a Olympus E10, so for my the D200 is a huge step forward. It´s fast, robust (i REALLY need a robust cam), it performs well, noise is OK, and it´s Nikon so even if you get some noise, the noise is more "analogue like", you can buy old Nikon lenses for it, and so on. Oh, and i can afford it.

2. The lense will be used for:

Concert shots
Group pictures
Documentary

3. A picture says more than a thousand words, so i´ll try to give you guys 4 examples, of where i´m going:

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=5802972&albumID=829646&imageID=4955446

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=5802972&albumID=829646&imageID=4955446#a=829646&i=5312774

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=5802972&albumID=829646&imageID=4955446#a=829646&i=4946987

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=5802972&albumID=829646&imageID=4955446#a=829646&i=4954635

The first picture with the old man, is really where i want to go. I like the mystiqe you can get from a wide angle. Peoples faces getting stretched and deform.

So guess i need 20 mm or something. maybe lower?

Thx

Tommy
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Desmond0007 said:
2. The lense will be used for:

Concert shots
Group pictures
Documentary
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Tommy-

The list is the key to your problem - that is really three lenses you're looking for.

So, that menas that to do all three, with your low light and financial aspects also covered, you will need to compromise. I don't do the 1st much (concerts), but do the 2nd and 3rd and I have a suggestion. Forget the wide bit and go with a 50mm 1.4. This superb lens will autofocus and give you good results in low light, be able to take group shots of smallish groups and do your concert stuff and allow you to back up a bit and not be right in someone's face. Its strength would be the Documentary piece, it is practically a standard lens for documentary practice - and excels at low light shots. Learn how to use it, and maybe later you'll have the cash for what else (a 35 - like Brad suggested - or maybe a 24-70 f2.8...).
Hope that helps,
Bill

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About needing a 20mm lens.

On a D200, that's a moderate wide angle, and will give you pictures without much distortion. It certainly is not radical, on a D200, the way it would be on a full frame camera.

If you really want big heads and small bodies, or big gforegrounds and the background to look far away, you need to get into the 12-14 mm range, and for that, you need a zoom.

The ultrawide zooms are all much slower than f1.4.

Anyway, if this is a new venture for you, I suggest a used Nikon kit lens with VR-- see what you can find and buy it. Something longer than 18-55 is better than just the 18-55.

Buy yourself a Nikon 50mm f1.8, which is a bargain lens, and a new 35mm f1.8, which costs more money, but is still in the low-priced range, as lenses go.

Between those, you'll be in good shape.

As for paper sizes -- those translate to the A-series, I gather.

Any idea who your clients will be? Performers, fans of performers, record companies...?

BAK
 
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