lonewolfsx
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Hey everyone, I've been fighting with myself a little bit recently, so I figured I'd ask here for some insightful advice. Anyway, I have some money saved up, and can sell some stuff once I commit to a new camera system (but I need the stuff for the time being). I'm going to go Nikon for sure as I have some friends who are there and to be honest, I'm out of the loop on trading and borrowing lenses. I used to shoot some wide-angle stuff, and still might in the future but this is usually travel related and mostly for myself and fun. Recently however, I've been shooting a lot more models/people/portraits and that's where my concentration and my pixel-perfectionist tendencies lie.
Normally people say the lens is much more important than the body (obviously, since quality lenses last a long time and bodies go in and out ever few years).
Anyway my question is... should I go for a high-end APS-C body (possibly the D7000, or more likely wait a bit and go for the "D400") and a pro-level lens like the Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8?
Or should I go for something like the D800 (probably don't need 36 megapixels but hey, you only take each picture once so why not), and a good (but not "pro") lens such as the 50mm f/1.8 or f/1.4? (I've looked at the available FF zoom lenses and I have some reservations regarding border quality with those. The only lens that looked pretty good in this price range was a used Sigma 24-70 f/2.8 Macro [non-hsm])
Some background; I already own a 105mm f/2.8 micro, which is also a perfectly good portrait lens, probably even better on FF. I don't mind having a setup like the 50mm/105mm combo as I don't mind changing lenses a few times, and according to my lightroom data plot my most used focal lengths (corrected from crop to ff) is 50mm, 85mm (I'd use the 105 here), ~200mm or so from when I did football games (no longer relevant), and then the 20-28mm range. I know I'd lose the wide angle with the full frame camera budget but I'd consider something like the Sigma 12-24mm later. Plus if I went crop and the 24-70 I'd lose the wide angle as well so obviously the UWA area isn't super important to me right now.
So in short I'm asking... is the full frame advantage relatively better than high-end glass on a crop body?
additional note: I wonder how much that new tamron 24-70mm f/2.8 will cost/perform?
Normally people say the lens is much more important than the body (obviously, since quality lenses last a long time and bodies go in and out ever few years).
Anyway my question is... should I go for a high-end APS-C body (possibly the D7000, or more likely wait a bit and go for the "D400") and a pro-level lens like the Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8?
Or should I go for something like the D800 (probably don't need 36 megapixels but hey, you only take each picture once so why not), and a good (but not "pro") lens such as the 50mm f/1.8 or f/1.4? (I've looked at the available FF zoom lenses and I have some reservations regarding border quality with those. The only lens that looked pretty good in this price range was a used Sigma 24-70 f/2.8 Macro [non-hsm])
Some background; I already own a 105mm f/2.8 micro, which is also a perfectly good portrait lens, probably even better on FF. I don't mind having a setup like the 50mm/105mm combo as I don't mind changing lenses a few times, and according to my lightroom data plot my most used focal lengths (corrected from crop to ff) is 50mm, 85mm (I'd use the 105 here), ~200mm or so from when I did football games (no longer relevant), and then the 20-28mm range. I know I'd lose the wide angle with the full frame camera budget but I'd consider something like the Sigma 12-24mm later. Plus if I went crop and the 24-70 I'd lose the wide angle as well so obviously the UWA area isn't super important to me right now.
So in short I'm asking... is the full frame advantage relatively better than high-end glass on a crop body?
additional note: I wonder how much that new tamron 24-70mm f/2.8 will cost/perform?
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