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Help me pick out a lens for the Nikon D80
For most amateurs the 18-200 lenses by Nikon, Sigma and Tamron are
reasonable performers. Any of these lenses outperform the Nikon 55-200 in that focal range. However Nikon did recently add IS to their otherwise execrable 55-200. The Nikon 18-200 is the most desirable because of image stabilization but it costs twice as much as the others, is difficult to find, and its optical performance otherwise is not much different regardless of what Nikon partisans say. These lenses all distort at the wide end, which may not be noticeable to some users, but the distortion is correctable in Photoshop. I love Nikon but you pay a premium for the name tag that does not consistently translate into performance that justifies the price for the purposes for which the lens will actually be used. Sigma announced a new IS 18-200 last September but never actually produced the lens. The last time I checked they had not given retailers a release date and they had not said they were not going to make the lens. Vaporware marketing as in the computer industry. Check out the Adorama web site on this lens. A wider angle lens is desirable. Again the Nikon 12-24 is more costly than the Tokina but the Tokina may be better optically. In fact the Nikon and the Tokina may share more than an identical focal length and fixed f-stop. Lenses longer than 200mm (equal to 350mm in 35mm film SLRs) for dSLRs are infrequently used by amateurs in the real world. If you don't know why you need one you do not need one. |
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