Lens.

[Mamamia]

Hi everyone. I am new, if I am not doing anything right, please put me straight My question is what lens for my Nikon D3300. I have a sigma 18.200. I am wanting to get a 70.300. I want to make sure it's right with the camera. Ca anyone give me pointers. Thanks so much. Lynn

 

[480sparky]

It all depends on what you need a lens to do for you.

 

[Mamamia]

It all depends on what you need a lens to do for you.

Thankyou for replying. I like taking distant shots, landscape, birds, animals. My Sony has got a good zoom, but I want to use my Nikon more.

 

[480sparky]

300mm doesn't have much less of a FOV than a 200mm as you might think. A 200mm will have a 6.64x4.41° FOV, the 300 will be 4.43x2.94°.

You may need to go to 400 or 500mm to get the FOV you desire.

 

[Strodav]

Your 18-200 f/3.5-5.6 is a solid general purpose lens, a good place to start. You might want to consider the Tamron 18-400mm f/3.5-6.3 DX for f-mount. Probably the most versatile DX zoom out there. I have gotten some very good shots with it on a D7200. With the DX 1.5x crop factor advantage, you are at 600mm, a good reach for wildlife.

 

[wfooshee]

I disagree that the 300 is not much less field-of-view than a 200. It's 50% longer, after all. I have a 70-200 2.8 and a 70-300 5.6, and the 300 is my most-used lens by far at air shows and for birding, even though those two stops would be very useful in some of the trees I have to shoot into. I'm considering Nikon's 200-500 for birding for the huge reach, but I have too many other things I need the money for at the moment...

 

[480sparky]

I disagree that the 300 is not much less field-of-view than a 200. It's 50% longer, after all. I have a 70-200 2.8 and a 70-300 5.6, and the 300 is my most-used lens by far at air shows and for birding, even though those two stops would be very useful in some of the trees I have to shoot into. I'm considering Nikon's 200-500 for birding for the huge reach, but I have too many other things I need the money for at the moment...

And a 30mm is 50% longer than a 20mm. Does it have the same change in FOV than comparing a 200 and 300? No.

FOV difference between a 20 and 30 is 18 x 12°. 200 to 300 is 2.2 x 1.5°. Those are very different numbers.

 

[wfooshee]

They are not different as a percentage from one to the other. In each case the FOV with the longer lens is two-thirds the field of view of the shorter lens.

Some of the cropping I have to do with the 300, cropping to the same frame with the 200 would not be a usable resolution.