What would be a good and the best lens for my Nikon d7200 to take photos at a concert?

What would be a good and the best lens for my Nikon d7200 to take photos at a concert? - 1

If you're asking, you won't be allowed to take your D7200 into a concert in the first place.

Take whatever lens you commonly use with your camera and make photos with that.

If you were allowed to take your D7200 to the concert, it would be your 70-200mm f2.8 AF-S VR.

Kind of depends on where you are sitting. If you are in the front row, you would want a wide angle lens, like the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8. If you have nose bleed seats, you want the longest lens you can afford, at least 300mm, like the Nikkor 70-300mm VR. I take it you have a press pass so you will be able to get your camera in.

When I shoot concert venues (with my media credentials and venue media pass) I use the 24-70 mm f/2.8 when I have an "All Access" venue pass or 70-200 mm f/2.8 when shooting from the "photographers well"

Here's the problem that you will face: You need a lens with a large aperture to allow sufficient light onto the sensor to keep your ISO at a sensible level to avoid golf-ball-sized noise. The two most commonly used lenses (by pros) for concerts are standard and telephoto zooms with a max aperture of f/2.8. Nikon has the 28-70 f/2.8 and the 70-200 f/2.8. There are other brands that, while not necessarily being as sharp as the Nikon, they are often very close at a fraction of the price making them technically an inferior lens, but a huge value producing images that you'd be hard-pressed to see the difference. Go to photozone.de and check out their lens reviews to see how much better each lens is.

Okay, here's the problem. You just dropped more than $4k on two lenses because the guy on the internet said so. You go to the concert and the first thing that happens is that you get stopped at the gate and told that pro gear is not allowed into the concert. You either check your $4K worth of glass to the guy in the black T-shirt and hope it's still there after the concert (like that's going to happen). Or trek back to the car and put your gear in your trunk hoping no one was watching and will steel your gear (hopefully you didn't take public transportation). In order to bring in the gear that one needs to properly photograph a concert, you commonly have to have a press pass for most major venues. So call prior to your arrival. Most places consider any lens longer than 3" to be "pro." Stupid? Absolutely. But them are the rules.

It depends on where you are and how far you are from the actual artist and what kinds of photos you want to take.

If you want portrait-like shots, get the 70-300mm. If you can almost touch the stage, a 50mm would do nice. If you want to capture a good part of the stage, a 35mm or wider lens is great. If you have an all-access pass (non-stage), a 24-70mm will do well. If you have a stage pass, it's a tossup between 24-70 and a 50mm.