PatrickHMS
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For awhile now, I have had a really heavy camera bag, with two bodies, and full of lenses (as many as 7-8 of them), along with all the other stuff one keeps in their gadget bag. Think I may have come up with a solution that would downsize my lens collection, and still work for me without my giving up anything but # of lenses.
I shoot with a D80 and happy with it (would probably buy a D5000 for the sensor before I would ever spend the money for a D90), wife likes to shoot a D40, mostly in auto mode, but she has a good eye for composition and gets her share of really nice shots. She should never need or want any more than a D40.
The other day I tried out a Tamron 17-50mm constant f/2.8, and a Tamron 18-250mm (the one that Noyze likes so much, but his is Sigma). Both have motors so they will AF with the D40 as well as on the D80.
Really liked them for the time I tried them, so I am pretty much ready to buy, or trade for same lenses from someone here on TPF or somewhere else.
I really think I like the Tamron better than I do my Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8.
So, once I sell (or trade) my Nikon 18-55mm kit lens, my Nikon 55-200mm VR, my Sigma 18-50mm constant f/2.8, my Sigma 20mm f/1.8, and my extra Nikon 50mm f.1.8 ~
I would pretty much have the two Tamron lenses paid for, surely with some money left over.
Would have the entire focal length I now have still covered, plus I would gain coverage from 200-250mm that I don't have right now. And I would pick up a faster aperture in the short focal length range.
Even if I kept a 50mm f/1.8 and a 35mm f/2.0 I would still be down to only four lenses, shouldn't need anymore for what I normally shoot.
I was hesitant to sell the kit lenses, but with the two Tamrons, I probably would never use them.
Hhhhhmmmmmmm...
I shoot with a D80 and happy with it (would probably buy a D5000 for the sensor before I would ever spend the money for a D90), wife likes to shoot a D40, mostly in auto mode, but she has a good eye for composition and gets her share of really nice shots. She should never need or want any more than a D40.
The other day I tried out a Tamron 17-50mm constant f/2.8, and a Tamron 18-250mm (the one that Noyze likes so much, but his is Sigma). Both have motors so they will AF with the D40 as well as on the D80.
Really liked them for the time I tried them, so I am pretty much ready to buy, or trade for same lenses from someone here on TPF or somewhere else.
I really think I like the Tamron better than I do my Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8.
So, once I sell (or trade) my Nikon 18-55mm kit lens, my Nikon 55-200mm VR, my Sigma 18-50mm constant f/2.8, my Sigma 20mm f/1.8, and my extra Nikon 50mm f.1.8 ~
I would pretty much have the two Tamron lenses paid for, surely with some money left over.
Would have the entire focal length I now have still covered, plus I would gain coverage from 200-250mm that I don't have right now. And I would pick up a faster aperture in the short focal length range.
Even if I kept a 50mm f/1.8 and a 35mm f/2.0 I would still be down to only four lenses, shouldn't need anymore for what I normally shoot.
I was hesitant to sell the kit lenses, but with the two Tamrons, I probably would never use them.
Hhhhhmmmmmmm...
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