Used Nikon Lenses

N
o one can tell you which lenses to buy or how to build the perfect SLR system that perfect for you. Actually it depends on the kinds of photos you like to take,the market where you want to sell your image and your personal preference.

The great advantage of Nikon cameras is that you can use older lenses on your body. You can get really amazing used nikon lenses at shockingly affordable prices and this allows a lot more freedom of choice and means .


Nikon has been perfecting its 50mm lenses since its inception as a company and it's one of Nikon's very best lenses. But 80mm on a digital camera is marvelous and it's prime lens at 80mm can take pictures in the darkest settings.

Lenses - Pros and Cons

This is my opinion and it is depends on each user.

Nikon 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G ED IF AF-S DX Nikkor Zoom Lens - It's served well for the wider range.

Nikon 10.5mm f/2.8G ED AF DX Fisheye Nikkor Lens: I never thought such a  specialized lens could provide me with so much use.

Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D AF - This is the same lens I discussed earlier. It's has a low price tag, small, allows you to shoot in really dark situations.

Tamron 17-35mm f2.8: This is a great lens too.

Nikkor 105mm f/2.8D AF Micro, or 105 Micro for short - This is probably Nikon's most used macro lens, probably because the lens can serve triple duty. First of all, it is a macro photography lens and it allows you to take photographs at a 1:1 reproduction ratio (on a 35mm body), which means that a 24 by 36 mm subject will fill the entire frame. Second, it makes a very good general purpose short telephoto lens. Third, it is also at least a very reasonable portrait lens (although, with magnification it may be too much of a telephoto on a digital SLR). I really love this lens for macro photography.

Nikkor Nikon 80-200mm f2.8D ED AF Zoom - This is a fantastic lens that stays at 2.8 no matter if you are shooting at 80 or 200mm. Zooms are great because you can adjust your focus distance depending on where your subject is located. Not so great with subjects that are always far away , but really awesome for docile wildlife like deer. It also has a macro function that works beautifully.

I have also used the Sigma 70-300mm 3.5-5.6 and the Tamron 200-400mm 3.5-5.6 and both served well as affordable zooms while I was learning about photography.

I'm Highly Recommend Manual Focus

I used to be terrified of focusing manually. On most auto focus lenses, the focus ring is small and more difficult to use...also there's something really easy about just allowing your camera to do the focusing work for you. I was afraid I couldn't react quickly enough to moving subjects and that I wouldn't be as good as my camera's auto focus. Now I see the errors of my ways.

For wildlife (or people), you want to make sure the main subject's eyes are in perfect focus. If you shoot a subject 10 feet away at 2.8 and use auto focus, the camera will choose the object closer to the camera and it usually the nose, cheek, or eye brow... not the eye itself. A 2.8 aperture means that you will have such a soft depth of field that the eyes will appear out of focus