Need an addition to my portrait glass?

VayCayMom

I don't understand everything about lenses, I DO understand what makes them fast or slow. I like fast :rofl

I feel I need another lens when I am in my small studio ( bedroom) . Due to the size it is hard to move around enough with a prime to go from headshot to full body. Sometimes I can't get far enough away. So I am thinking I may want to save up for something that may fill in the middle.
Maybe a wide angle lens that is still good for portraits.

I shoot people, mostly families and kids, am making a little money, want to keep learning maybe make more $$.

I have a Nikon d 700

50 1/4
85 1/4
70-300 1/4
Sigma 10-20

I also still have my d300
18-70 dx 1/3.5
18-200 dx 1/3.5

This just occurred to me....could I use my d300 and one of the above dx lenses instead , or until I get a another lens? How would that measure up to a totally new lens for the d700?

Thanks in advance.

ziggy53

Hi Trudy.

Hopefully you have the Nikkor 85mm, f1.4D and Nikkor 50mm, f1.4D. (It's hard to tell from the description, "50 1/4, 85 1/4".)

You might be able to use your 50mm, f1.4D on the D700 for your full-length shots, and the 85mm, f1.4D would be a very nice head shot/head and shoulders lens on the D300.

That depends of course on the physical size of the room you'll be shooting in, but I know some bedrooms are large enough for it to work.

VayCayMom

ziggy53 wrote:

Hi Trudy.

Hopefully you have the Nikkor 85mm, f1.4D and Nikkor 50mm, f1.4D. (It's hard to tell from the description, "50 1/4, 85 1/4".)

You might be able to use your 50mm, f1.4D on the D700 for your full-length shots, and the 85mm, f1.4D would be a very nice head shot/head and shoulders lens on the D300.

That depends of course on the physical size of the room you'll be shooting in, but I know some bedrooms are large enough for it to work.

Yes Ziggy that is exactly what I have, I just don't know the standard way to describe them! I have been able to shot full body with the 50 but I am up against the wall and can't move much. Thanks for answering.

Qarik

VayCayMom wrote:

I don't understand everything about lenses, I DO understand what makes them fast or slow. I like fast

I feel I need another lens when I am in my small studio ( bedroom) . Due to the size it is hard to move around enough with a prime to go from headshot to full body. Sometimes I can't get far enough away. So I am thinking I may want to save up for something that may fill in the middle.
Maybe a wide angle lens that is still good for portraits.

I shoot people, mostly families and kids, am making a little money, want to keep learning maybe make more $$.

I have a Nikon d 700

50 1/4
85 1/4
70-300 1/4
Sigma 10-20

I also still have my d300
18-70 dx 1/3.5
18-200 dx 1/3.5

This just occurred to me....could I use my d300 and one of the above dx lenses instead , or until I get a another lens? How would that measure up to a totally new lens for the d700?

Thanks in advance.

it sounds like the 24-70mm 2.8 would fit the bill perfectly..pricy but the best standard zoom nikon has ever made

Keytarjunkie

Sell the 18-70, and buy a used Nikkor 28-70 (the "beast") or the 24-70/2.8 if you can afford it.

It's also worth mentioning - I just completed an internship with a photographer who works at the New England School of Photography, she has been taking pictures for many years. She has two D300's, a 24-70, 12-24, 300/4, 85/1.8, etc....indoors in her studio she usually uses a D70 and old 24-120 AF-D stopped down to F/11. She takes the most amazing pictures, you really don't need a full frame camera with a $1800 lens to do the same. All you need is a lot of light and whatever camera you have will figure out the rest.

VayCayMom

Thanks Qarik, that is what has been in the back of my mind, I just wanted to hear someone say it!

Keytar, i agree with what you said, i have seen people do great stuff with disposable cameras even !!!

Selling my old kit lens is a wonderful idea, thanks so much.