Image quailty. Cheap VS Expensive - For A print?

Viking

I dont know where to place this question. But I think it fits here best.

I recently bought myself one of those Nikons D200. Great Camera! But I dont have a lens yet. Well I have one, but its not mine. And I have Nikons 28-70mm 2.8 and 70-200mm 2.8 and 12-24mm to use, and a bunch of other lenses that dont fit my photography very well. Well, I need to get myself an lens but dont know which one. Thinking of the Nikon 18-200mm VR lens. But Im not sure if its a good choise for me. I want good quility, I shot portraits and a bit indoors. I shot a alot of different stuff! I realy want the 2.8 lenses I mentiond above, but they are to expensive for me.

I also want to make very good A4 prints in magazines. Will there be alot of diiference between the 18-200mm VR lens and the more expensive 28-70mm 2.8.

I would love to see tests bewteen cheap and expensive lenses in the price range I have been writing about above.

ebwest

I guess somebody needs to answer. I have a Canon so I can't tell you about Nikon lenses, but, for the most part, lenses are like anything else, you get what you pay for. Figure out what you can afford and go a little more

Art Scott

How mcu wide angle (28mm or less) will you do as opposed to medium tele to tele (70 - 200 mm).....now if it is 70mm or greater and you can afford upto 800 get the 70 - 200 2.8...I've seen it on ebay for anywhere from $400 to 850 (in Sigma, which are great lenses)...of course if you do more wide stuff then go 28 to 70 or even 10 - 20 (which equates to 15 - 30)....remember with the D200 to take 1.5 times the focal lenght to get the 35mm equivalent.

Good luck

thortate

best you can afford

Viking wrote:

I dont know where to place this question. But I think it fits here best.

I recently bought myself one of those Nikons D200. Great Camera! But I dont have a lens yet. Well I have one, but its not mine. And I have Nikons 28-70mm 2.8 and 70-200mm 2.8 and 12-24mm to use, and a bunch of other lenses that dont fit my photography very well. Well, I need to get myself an lens but dont know which one. Thinking of the Nikon 18-200mm VR lens. But Im not sure if its a good choise for me. I want good quility, I shot portraits and a bit indoors. I shot a alot of different stuff! I realy want the 2.8 lenses I mentiond above, but they are to expensive for me.

I would love to see tests bewteen cheap and expensive lenses in the price range I have been writing about above.

They say you should bet the best you can afford, I have a D70 and I think the bundled 18-70mm is rather good, the 18-200mm would save your sensor attracting too much dust - you wouldn't need to change the lens so much, I think this lens would cover everything you mentioned you wanted to do

David_S85

Moving this discussion to Cameras/Glass, since that's what is being talked about mostly.