David Lal

My Nik 50/1.8 D is a very sharp lens and cost me less than GBP£ 100 brand new. Unfortunately, because of the lack of an internal focus motor on your D5600, it would be manual focus only for you. ht ...

I know nothing of Canon firmware but if what you say is true then that is very different from the Nikon situation as it implies that Canon designed extensibility into the firmware. I rather think ...

.. I am capably making do without them, as I am sure many other photographers are. The ability - or inability - to use AF-P lenses would not be the a key determinant in my choice of camera body.

.. correct the omission of a built-in flash tube! ;-)

Without that information the OP's question is more or less pointless eliciting more or less pointless answers in which respondents list their own favourite or most desired lenses. @Lokanath: I ...

:-) Sorry, I have no experience with the gel products. I do have a 100% success rate with Eclipse and swabs over many, many cleanings since 2004 and involving 3 different cameras and would not ...

Rabies is not known in the UK except for a very, very small percentage of wild bats.

If it isn't broken it does not need fixing.

.. for the kind remark, jdoman. In fact the fox was as gentle as anything. I did feel her lips brush my fingers but I have known domestic dogs that were snappier than she was.

.. you dropped it! :-) Commiserations. My everyday camera is a D300 which still does almost everything I want it to so I have no plans to replace it. D300, Nik 16-85; SB800 + [wild] vixen

Indeed Justian, and for the same reasons as you I went with the older 16-85mm, secondhand at that, but it came with an 18 month dealer warranty. Although I am a birder I leave all the long lenses ...

Three lenses seems to me to be a strange definition of 'light'! When I travel I take one body (D300) and one lens, my Nik 16-85mm. which is the older version of the 16-80.

Well done Chuck. You are generalising though - who's to say for sure whether whatever your technique was would work on a different model? What was your reason for flashing the firmware in the first ...

True enough Larry. It would be polite to ask anyway. I've done two of these events (in churches) and did not have a problem.

The focal length will remain 90mm - even if you mounted it on a 6x6 Hasselblad.

I would agree: definitely a decent flashgun and the ability to use it well is absolutely essential. @OP: I should think your choice of a 70-200mm and 16-80mm is very good. At the last vowel renewal ...

Because of the flange dimensions and its distance from the focal plane, converters for the Nikon body generally will not allow the lens to focus to infinity unless the adaptor also contains a ...

.. sera!

Ed, this sounds like a purely mechanical issue to me, to do with the fit and communication of camera and flashgun in the hot shoe. Whether the flashgun is at fault or the camera is hard to say ...

Me! Perfectly happy with my D300, Nik 16-85 and SB800. Both bought secondhand I might add.