By: Colin Shawhan
GREAT ARTICLE!! Went on a shoot yesterday purposely intending to test out the Nikon 18-55 and it performs marvelously. I even caught a vulture perched ominously on a branch and to make any sense of the...
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I have discovered that my lens is fairly sharp at either end and suffers in the middle. I have taken a lot of 18 mm landscape shots and tight 55 mm “zoom” shots (on flowers, say) and both turn out...
View ArticleBy: Colin Shawhan
It’s worth having at least a prime lens to work with. I use a 50 mm on my DX body and it has two major disadvantages; no auto-focus, no stabilization. So I have to focus and hold ‘er steady! That, and...
View ArticleBy: Colin Shawhan
Depends, too, if you are a portrait shooter or a landscape person. I personally am into architecture, industrial and agricultural machinery, statues, and I’ve had great luck with the “kit lens.”...
View ArticleBy: Colin Shawhan
Discipline, yes! Wives help with that, too. The $100 50mm was a tough sell.
View ArticleBy: Marinus Beers
The kit lens that came with my Nikon D500 is the AF-S NIKKOR 16-80mm 1:2.8-4E ED, and although in the meantime I bought several other lenses, both prime and zoom, it is still my favourite...
View ArticleBy: Albin
General utility is the reason an inexpensive 18-55mm lens has been issued as the industry default “kit” but I doubt there are so many complete newcomers buying completely unfamiliar gear for unfamiliar...
View ArticleBy: pete guaron
I’ve kept the original kit lens that I think came with my D810. There’s nothing “wrong” with it. As you point out, the max aperture is is “slow”, but with modern sensors and post processing software...
View ArticleBy: Charles Black
I totally agree with Andrew Gibsons observations on kit lens. I have a Canon 18 to 55 mm IS kit lens which came with my camera. However, wanting more range I went to a 18 to 270 mm Tamron superzoom...
View ArticleBy: Frank Nazario
I LOVE MY KIT LENSES 18-55mm and 55-200… its funny because if you take this lens and multiply your crop factors, which is 1.5 in my case because I use Nikon, they are almost a 24-70 ish and a 70-200 🙂...
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