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03-03-08, 11:42 PM
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Re: Your favourite lens... and why!?

thandi i know how you feel ! my 18-135mm is in hospital too TWO WEEKS ! feel abit depress without my camera so i had a go of my old film 28-80 len on to D80 today and still crap !!! i love my 18-135mm as i can do landscapes aswell as flower shoots
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06-03-08, 08:16 PM
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Re: Your favourite lens... and why!?

Weeeelllll, I bit the bullet today and bought the 70-200 mm f2.8 plus a 1.4x teleconverter so here's hoping for a nice weekend so I can try em out
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Nikon D700
Nikon MB-D10 Battery Grip
Nikon AF-S 14-24mm f/2.8
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06-03-08, 08:18 PM
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Re: Your favourite lens... and why!?

Nice one! Can't wait to see the pics!!

How does the teleconverter work? Does it take the reach to say 300mm ?
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06-03-08, 09:06 PM
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Re: Your favourite lens... and why!?

It'll make into to a 280mm lens with a loss of 1 f/ stop. Which will be fine as the dof at 2.8 would generally be too little for what I wanna shoot.
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Nikon D700
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06-03-08, 09:11 PM
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Re: Your favourite lens... and why!?

How much did it cost? Thinking about getting one for my 55-200
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06-03-08, 09:18 PM
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Re: Your favourite lens... and why!?

You need at least a f/2.8 or faster as the converter means that as well as increasing the focal length has the same less desirable effect on the aperture reducing the aperture by a stop so on a f5.6 lens it would be too slow really to use.
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06-03-08, 09:20 PM
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Re: Your favourite lens... and why!?

Ah right... nevermind then lol.

Look forward to your pics then! Let's hope we get a nice weekend, although the forecast for here is terrible!
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06-03-08, 10:16 PM
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Re: Your favourite lens... and why!?

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You need at least a f/2.8 or faster as the converter means that as well as increasing the focal length has the same less desirable effect on the aperture reducing the aperture by a stop so on a f5.6 lens it would be too slow really to use.
Also don't forget that several lenses loose the ability to autofocus after f5.6 (or f8 depending on the body you are using).

Sounds like a nice set up - looking forward to seeing some of your results
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06-03-08, 11:35 PM
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Re: Your favourite lens... and why!?

i would love to own the Nikon 70-200mm F2.8 lens, but that is way out of my price at the moment

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10-03-08, 03:13 PM
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Re: Your favourite lens... and why!?

I recently got a 18-135mm lens for my D40 and I am well chuffed with it so far
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