I like the light weight and excellent image quality of the Nikon 16-85 zoom. I also have an 18-200, and image quality is also good, but the "lens creep" drives me crazy.
Whenever I need more speed, I use the tiny and cheap Nikon 35mm F1.8 lens. For distance I like the excellent Nikon 70-300 mm f/4.5-5.6G AF-S VR which is super sharp, yet light and manageable.
When I was younger, I owned and used the big and heavy f2.8 zooms, but now I favor slower, but considerably lighter and less bulky lenses.
I do wish that Nikon would make lenses similar to Canon's 17-40 F/4 and 70-200 F/4 "L" lenses. F4 is fast enough for most purposes and I would assuredly pay more for the superior image quality that could be provided by such lenses.
My camera body of choice is a Nikon D300 and I see no reason to update every time a new body in introduced. I also use a D-90 but wish I had the lighter and smaller D5100 and may make that change.
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I have a record player and a cd player and some other stuff that sounds pretty good.
MAIN SYSTEM: . . . Audio Physic Caldera III Loudspeakers, Spectral DMC 30SL Preamp, Spectral DMA 250 Amp, Spectral/MIT interconnects and speaker cable, Basis Debut V Vacuum turntable, Walker Precision Speed Controller, Graham tonearm, [B]Koetsu Rosewood or Grado Statement 1 Cartridges, PASS - X-ono Phono Stage, Esoteric K03 CD/SACD Player, Lexicon RT-20 Universal Player, Exact Power EP-15A & SP-15A power regeneration and conditioning devices. Symposium Acoustics Svelte pads & RollerBlock Jr's under speakers. ASC Tube Traps, Arcici Suspense Rack System, OPPO and Cambridge Streaming Devices.
DOWNSTAIRS SYSTEM: . . . Sonus Faber Guarneri Memento Speakers, JL Audio F112 Sub, McIntosh MA7000 Integrated Amp, McIntosh MVP871 Universal Disc Player, OPPO BDP-105 Blu-Ray Player, VPI Scoutmaster with periphery ring clamp, VPI SDS Motor Drive, Koetsu Pro IV, or Clearaudio Discovery Cartridges, Mark Levinson No. 25s phono stage, Wadia 170i Transport with a Meridian Bitstream 203 DAC, VPI HW-17 Pro Record Cleaning Machine, Five Richard Gray RGPC 400 devices scattered around the two systems, Arcici Suspense Rack System, Discovery Essence and Essential Cables, 14,000 ± LPs .
Last edited by AudioNut; 05-27-2012 at 08:36 AM.
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