Zahid.PK » nikkor http://www.zahid.pk My Personal Website and Blog Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:34:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Finally got Nikon 55-200mm VR http://www.zahid.pk/2008/08/01/finally-got-nikon-55-200mm-vr/ http://www.zahid.pk/2008/08/01/finally-got-nikon-55-200mm-vr/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:10:56 +0000 Zahid http://www.zahid.pk/2008/08/01/finally-got-nikon-55-200mm-vr/ I needed 18-200mm, choices were Nikon 18-200mm VR and Sigma 18-200mm DC OS HSM. Nikon being quite expensive at Rs.48000 and Sigma at Rs.32000, I ended up with Nikon 55-200mm VR @ Rs.18000.

I’ll probably be spending the saved money on Nikon 50mm f/1.8 and the D80 successor when it comes out! and I will hopefully be writing a short review of 55-200mm VR very soon :)

The reasons i went with 55-200mm are:

  1. Nikon 18-200mm definitely has a convenience of not changing lenses for shot to shot, but it has some dark corners at 18mm. What if I don’t like that too much?
  2. Sigma is bit cheap but has the same issues, and it is slow in low light (f/6.3 at 200mm).
  3. There is no resale value for such stuff in Pakistan.
  4. 55-200mm VR is still an excellent lens, and if i really hate the inconvenience of changing lens at the end, i can sell it without losing too much!

And, changing lens doesn’t take more than 10 seconds :)

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