Experience so far

[mpykalo]

Hello everyone,

I think that my experience with may be interesting to some.
To put it all in context, I have years of experience with film, including lots of B&W darkroom time printing both as a hobby and as part of my profession. Anyway, for one reason or another I strayed away from photography for nearly a decade until I finally purchased Nikon P5000 P&S about two years ago. This is a very fine camera that got me hooked again so shortly afterward I splurged on a Nikon D40 dslr with the kit 18-55mm lens. And this is where it all starts...

Within a month I added the lovely Nikon 55-200mm VR lens to my collection, as well as a used Nikon 10.5mm fisheye.

Shortly after getting all this I was tempted by the Nikon 18-200 VR to replace the 18-55 and 55-200. So I sold those as well as the fisheye (for a very good profit online) and got the 18-200 as well as the 50 f/1.8.

The 50mm is amazing: sharp, small/light, beautiful colours, and the manual focus is not a problem at all.

The 18-200 on the other hand is very dissapointing... compared to the kit 18-55 and the 55-200 its image quality is very poor.

So I sold it. Now, finally my wife hopes, I have three amazing lenses in my arsenal. The 50 f/1.8, as well as two new ones: the Sigma 10-22 ultrawide and the Tamron 28-75 f/2.8. Really happy with this kit too! For now at least...