Lens Recommendations for Nikon D7000?
I'm going to buy a Nikon D7000 soon, and i'm just wondering if any of you guys that have experience with cameras and photography can help me out. I have experience with cameras as well but I would like more opinions.
I'm planning to buy:
Nikon D7000 (Body Only, I feel I won't need the kit lens basing on what lens I'm buying)
Nikon 35mm f/1.8
Nikon 55-200mm f/4-5.6 VR
Nikon 18-55mm Kit Lens (Debating on this one)
Is this a good lens lineup for now until a certain period of time? I want a 10-24mm but too expensive. Plus i'm getting a laptop so I can't splurge on everything. Any feedback? Thanks!
Added (1). The 18-55mm kit lens I don't feel like buying, because i'll be overlapping.
Added (2). The Tokina 11-16mm looks nice, but these lenses I'm getting is just for starters. I know i'll be replacing the 55-200mm, but that's like 6 months away. The Tokina is too expensive since i'm already buying a laptop (Macbook Pro).
Added (3). I was buying the 18-55mm for the only reason that it's a good kit lens to start with. The kit lens that come with e D7000 is practically useless as the 18-55mm you can get more out of. "Knowing what I want" - I want what everyone wants, photo/video but I won't be doing portraits or landscapes as much.
I'd keep the kit lens in there. It will cover the wide end then the 55-200 picks up and covers the medium to telephoto end of the spectrum.
The 35mm is a great choice to get you into a prime.
It's a good basic lineup. The lenses are consumer grade and eventually you will want to upgrade them to better lenses, but for a good learning kit it's very complete.
Look at the Tokina 11-16mm instead of the Nikon 10-24.
The 55-200mm would only be a "temporary" lens, in that you will be replacing it for better glass at some point. The 35mm would be a "keeper" as well as the Tokina (if you decide to buy that lens).
I think your choices are weird. You buy it body only and then you want to buy a separate 18-55?
These lenses are all decent quality budget lenses but without knowing what you want to it's impossible to give any good advice.
The AF-S Nikkor 35mm F1.8G DX is a lens which certainly caused a degree of dismay on its release, with many Nikon fans disappointed by the decision to make it compatible with the DX format only. However the main benefit of that decision is plain for all to see - even at its introductory price the lens costs rather less than the venerable AF-Nikkor 35mm F2.0D, despite the addition of an AF-S motor to allow autofocusing on Nikon's entry-level D40 / D40X / D60 bodies. It's also less than half the price of the few other DX format standard primes currently on the market (such as the Pentax 35mm F2.8 Macro, Tokina 35mm F2.8 Macro and Sigma 30mm F1.4 EX DC HSM), so Nikon has managed with this lens to produce the first genuinely inexpensive (sub-$200) fast standard prime designed specifically for digital SLRs.