A brand new Nikon D80 body sitting beside a recently-opened box on your own table is one of the most amazing sights to behold. You’d have to get one on your own to know the sensation.
A digital SLR camera on its own, however, is pretty much near to useless – you’d have to obtain a lens (or two, three or more) in order to start taking photographs with it. The only problem is, there must be something such as 1,013 lenses out there to choose from, at least, it starts feeling like it after you spend hours, if not days, thumbing through catalogs and spec sheets, browsing forums, reading debates and arguments over which lenses to buy (or not to buy) and getting advice from one friend too many, other enthusiasts and professionals in the field.
All you’d really like to understand now is, what are the best lenses for your Nikon D80?
Nikon Lens #1 – The Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D AF lens. Its maximum 1.8 aperture also allows you to take great-looking portraits with a blurred background, the type you see in certain professional shots. It’s small, it’s light, it is great for taking photos in dimly-lit locations where flash is not allowed.
Nikon Lens #2 – The Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G ED-IF AF-S DX Zoom lens. That was a mouthful, wasn’t it? Yes, this is a zoom lens, unlike the 50mm f/1.8 mentioned previously. Meaning you can take big-group shots in tight locations and include everybody into the picture, and it also allows you to go to 70mm for relatively tight portrait shots.
Nikon Lens #3 – The Nikkor 18-200mm F/3.5-5.6g IF-ED AF-S DX VR.This lens is so hot. How so? Well, it’s hot enough to be out-of-stock at virtually all stores, but you can find one if you’re a walk-in customer, and Nikon is bending backwards to ramp up production to meet demand. Why is it hot? Well, because it’s the only lens on the market offering such a huge zoom range, with fast autofocus action and even a VR mechanism that helps you get steady shots without the use of flash. You’ll appreciate how useful the VR is if you’re in a museum that doesn’t enable you to use flash and tripods – the new version of the VR technology Nikon made available on this lens allows you to eliminate handshake at ever slower shutter speeds which beats out the VR capability in more expensive, but older lenses.
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