timbo59
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As noted elsewhere, I recently picked up a D7000 package that included a number of DX lenses, two of which are more or less standard kit variants that pad out the basic zoom range - an AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm 3.5-5.6G II ED and an AF-S Nikkor 55-200mm 4.5-5.6G ED VR. The other is the AF 50mm 1.8D.
I really only wanted the camera and MB-D11 battery pack, so I'm weighing up which of the lenses to sell and which to keep, taking into account the glass I already have stashed aside from decades of film photography and my first foray into digital via a D70. The other DX lenses I own are the wonderful 10.5mm which I use for spherical photography and the stock zoom that came with the D70, the AF-S 18-70mm 3.5-4.5G ED.
I have about 15 other lenses, a mix of manual and AF lenses, and the ones that come into the equation are the AF Nikkor 75-300 4.5-5.6, the AF Nikkor 70-210mm 4-5.6D (when I have the space I take the former, when I want something compact I take the latter) and finally the AF Nikkor 28-85mm 3.5-4.5. Anything wider I can toss in my favourite old wide angle, the 20mm f4. Anything longer and I attach my old Vivitar 100-500mm Series 1 zoom - though that's very seldom.
At this particular point it seems a no-brainer to just ditch the two DX zooms the camera came with (or keep the wider zoom and ditch the zoom the D70 came with) and perhaps the 50mm. I don't have a 50mm in my collection, but through the years I have never really had an interest in keeping one around for the odd occasions I might need the extra speed - 99% of my photography is either landscape or abstract! Same reason I've never felt a pressing need for VR.
I really only wanted the camera and MB-D11 battery pack, so I'm weighing up which of the lenses to sell and which to keep, taking into account the glass I already have stashed aside from decades of film photography and my first foray into digital via a D70. The other DX lenses I own are the wonderful 10.5mm which I use for spherical photography and the stock zoom that came with the D70, the AF-S 18-70mm 3.5-4.5G ED.
I have about 15 other lenses, a mix of manual and AF lenses, and the ones that come into the equation are the AF Nikkor 75-300 4.5-5.6, the AF Nikkor 70-210mm 4-5.6D (when I have the space I take the former, when I want something compact I take the latter) and finally the AF Nikkor 28-85mm 3.5-4.5. Anything wider I can toss in my favourite old wide angle, the 20mm f4. Anything longer and I attach my old Vivitar 100-500mm Series 1 zoom - though that's very seldom.
At this particular point it seems a no-brainer to just ditch the two DX zooms the camera came with (or keep the wider zoom and ditch the zoom the D70 came with) and perhaps the 50mm. I don't have a 50mm in my collection, but through the years I have never really had an interest in keeping one around for the odd occasions I might need the extra speed - 99% of my photography is either landscape or abstract! Same reason I've never felt a pressing need for VR.