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Many years ago I bought a Nikkor 24-120 f3.5-5.6 with my F5. It grew with me through the D200, D300 and now with the D810. Last year we went to Niagara Falls and I took some pretty darn fine shots with it. This is where my problem starts. The d810 with all its pixel glory is showing me the age of my old 24-120. I'd like for it to be a bit sharper and wouldn't mind it to be a bit faster either.
Since the kids left home for lives of their own, the wife and I have been doing a lot of travelling and I've been focusing mostly on waterfalls and landscapes/seascapes. Out trip this year is all over New England for the fall colors.
Looking at Lightroom, the vast majority of my shots are at 24 or 120 and not a lot between and the 24-120 is my most used lens.
My current lens stable looks like:
Nikkor 105 f2.8 micro - Wonderfully sharp.
Nikkor 24-120 3.5-5.6
Tamron 150-600 f5-6.3 - Mainly for birds
Nikkor 52mm ai-s 2.8 manual
My budget is about $2,000
So that's the setup.
This is where the fun begins. What do I replace it with? I made the mistake of researching lenses on DxO and seeing all the figures on the various lenses that I'm thinking about and is contributing to my dilemma.
Choice #1 - Nikon 20mm 1.8g or IRIX 15mm f2.4, and a Nikon 35mm 1.8g, Nikon 50mm 1.4g
Choice #2 - Tamron 24-70 f2.8 and IRIX 15mm f2.4 or the Nikon 20mm 1.8g.
Choice #3 - Nikon 24-120 f4 VR and the Nikon 20mm 1.8g.
I like having a good walk around lens.The 24-120 has been that and for years has been sharp enough, until it met the d810.
There are simply too many ways to slice the pie for me to make up my mind. For hiking, is it better to have 2 or 3 smaller lenses or one bigger one? Generally, I slap the 24-120 on the camera and away we go.
I think I've made up my mind on the 20mm 1.8g, the more pics I see from that lens the more I like it, but now it begs the question, what to do about the rest of the range. Go all primes since I have the 105? Lens swapping walking around sounds like a hassle.
halp! ;-)
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