How to pros feel about 3rd party lenses?
Wanting to know if any of you pro photographers work with third party lenses. If you do, are they the same quality as Nikon and Canon cameras lenses for each brand's cameras? If you don't use them, why?
Added (1). For example. What would be the disadvantages of buying the Sigma or Tamron 24-70mm 2.8 for Nikon versus buying the Nikon lens?
Added (2). And are the disadvantages significant enough that it would be work spending the extra thousand $$
What's the best lens for Cityscapes & landscape photography? I'm thinking a 10-20mm Nikkor but what are "your" guy's thoughts? What lens is best for those 2 types of photography? What's the best price? Can i tell a difference? Any pin points, point them out please! Thank you
Btw, i'm using a 18-55mm and i'm SICK and tired of using that lens for every.every shot. And I have a 50mm 1.8 but thats the cheapest lens that everyone has! Its a great lens but I want more of a nice quality easy focus all around awesome lens. And no $8, 000 telephoto which I'll end up bankrupt from haha.
Nikon: Which lens should I take on holiday? I only want to take one lens
Nikkor 55-200mm 1:4 or the Nikkor 50mm 1:4?
Recommendation for a small camera with view finder and wide angle?
I travel a lot overseas for my work - maybe 20 weeks out of the year and I go to interesting places. On weekends, I love to photo the places I visit and to do this I need a wide angle for castles, bazaars, monuments etc. I usually take my Nikon D 40 x with a Tamron 18-250 mm zoom. I love/love the pictures. But it is so heavy and bulky given the other things I carry. I hate to say it but it is getting old. I recently tried my Lumix FS15 on a trip but half the time I could not see what I was shooting in the bright daylight and "guessed" the scene. The lack of wide angle was a problem.
Can anyone recommend a camera easy to travel with that has a view finder and a wide angle feature. Price is not an issue It could be a very small DSLR but if it were a fixed lense with manual controls that would be fine too. Size does matter as do the features.
How to get sharper pictures with this lens?
In February I bought a used gray market Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G lens. I love the range it gives me, but it seems like I can never get my pictures to turn out as sharp as I want them to be.
I've tried stopping down all the way to f/22 and using my tripod with a remote shutter release. No matter what I've tried, or what focal length I'm using, the focus is always soft and the edges of things in the picture are kind of fuzzy. It happens even if I'm using autofocus. Is there anything else I can do to try to improve the quality of the pics?
Added (1). I've tried shooting at f/8 on bright, sunny days and the result is the same.
I can't post any examples right now… All of my files are on my external hard drive, which my mom borrowed from me for the weekend. I'll try to get her to email me a few of them tonight, or I'll go out and shoot some more with various settings tomorrow and upload them to Flickr.
Added (2). Also, I know this is one of the cheapest lenses Nikon makes. I didn't expect super high quality from a lens I spent $80 on, but I was hoping it would work to get me through a couple semesters of photography.
Is it better a AF-NIKKOR 50MM F/1.8 D?
Or a Nikon Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 G AF-S?
Do you know the difference between the two?
Monopod necessary for 50-200mm?
I was reading up on what mono-pods are and what they were used for and when they should be used. I read on a site that its not meant to replace a tripod but it will provide more stability with a long lens. Now would a 55-200mm consider a long lens? IIm just thinking that maybe when i zoom into 200mm i might want that mono-pod to make things more stable. Would you guys get a mono-pod if you were using a Nikkor AF-S DX 55-200mm with VR?
I already have a tripod but its not that great. (My uncle gave me a tripod since he bought a new one) the tripod is steady and very light but the head is very limited with how you want to angle the camera. And i figured since i'm going on vacation i might want something more portable like a mono-pod.
Which of these lenses is better?
Http://www.amazon.com/Nikon-70-300mm-4-5-5-6G-Digital-Cameras/dp/B000HJPK2C/
http://www.amazon.com/...00005Y3OM/
So theoretically, these lenses are very similar. It seems like the first lens has vibration reduction and a built in autofocus motor, but that's it. It also seems like the second lens would be better in lower light conditions because of the lower F rating. I don't need an autofocus motor or vibration reduction, so which should I get?
Widelens for a nikon 35mm film camera?
I bought a nikon FM, a fully manual film camera with light metering. I have just learnet dx lens vignette anf G lens are useless.
now the question. Are there any widelens that would work with nikon FM? At the moment i'm using a tamron 28-2000m HM.
Will the Nikon 50mm f/1.8D AF Nikkor Lens fit on the Nikon F camera?
Will the Nikon 50mm f/1.8D AF Nikkor Lens fit on the Nikon F camera?
Added (1). Any knowledge on the Nikon F camera, Is is better then the canon ae-1 program?
Added (2). Or a brownie starlet camera, mammiya c330, or minolta autocord, i'm looking for a vintage camera, i like the boxie type <-- like these which would you recommend that take good old nice pictures? But this is technically a separate question from above.