Lenses for streetphotography?

Hi! I'm planning to buy a new lens for street photography. I have a 35mm 1.8g and seem to spoof my subjects. Should I go for the 50mm 1.8g or the new 40mm f2.8 macro(which was released early this day) or any suggestion would do. Btw, I have a nikon d7000. If possible not so expensive lenses cause i'm on a tight budget.

Anything can happen in the streets, so you'll want a zoom lens rather than a prime lens like the one you have.

If you can afford it, get the 18-200mm VR lens, it is sharp and it will give you great versatility

18-105 is cheaper, Its kind of soft though, not the sharpest lens ever.

If these are both too expensive, get the 18-55 DX VR, yeah its a kit lens, but reviewers say its awesome and really really sharp. And its just 100 dollars!

I don't recommend fixed zoom lenses for street photography. But macro? That's an entirely different category.

Dude, why did you post the same question again…

My artist friends who shoot street photography use a 35 mm rangefinder with a 35 mm lens.

Your D7000 is a rather large camera and you would need to find a 24 mm lens to replicate the field of view they are using when shooting street photography

The whole idea is to capture the people in the street "in situ". Raising a big camera like your fine D7000 to your eye to compose and shoot will cause people to turn away or act out to "impress" the camera.

Using a small camera like a 35 mm rangefinder allow the artist to preset the lens to a suitable hyper-focal distance and shoot from the hip, thus capturing the street scene as it exists

The great French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson developed the techniques of "street photography" and the concept of the "Decisive Moment" in the late 1940's and '50's. His candid images of the famous and the ordinary people of his day are classics of the genre.

He employed a very straight forward and simple technique using only a Leica rangefinder camera with a 50mm lens and Kodak Tri-X black and white film at the standard ISO of 400. He never took a meter reading since he knew his equipment and film so well. He pre-set his exposure for the environment in which he was working. The Leica was an extremely compact unit with no "bells and whistles" like noisy automatic film advance or focal-plane shutter. The shutter was barely audible since there was no "mirror slap" as with SLR's.

Now, the point of that lengthy preamble was to illustrate how unobtrusive and anonymous Cartier-Bresson was which was key to his success in getting completely natural images of the "man on the street". Although today's SLR's are pretty noisy by comparason, you can blend into the background better by using a 50mm non-zoom lens that you set at the hyperfocal distance for the expected range at which you will be working. One reason that your subjects get spooked is that the 35mm lens encourages you to get too close. Don't bother with precise framing and composition; "shoot loose" and fine-tune the composition later in the darkroom or consult with the person who will do the printing.

Sorry for rambling on.

A prime (non-zoom) lens with a distance scale is useful for street photography because you can pre-set the distance (hyperfocal distance, as mentioned above) and shoot quickly with less chance of scaring your potential subjects away.

Zoom lenses are bigger and bulkier and tend to scare people more than prime lenses (though some people get scared no matter what lens you use).

What do you mean by "spoof" you subjects?

The 35mm is fine. Though something wider might be more useful (providing you are close enough to your subjects).